# Involving Communities in Delivering and Disseminating Health Disparity Interventions

> **NIH NIH U54** · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $1,358,981

## Abstract

ABSTRACT: OVERALL COMPONENT
We propose an innovative and synergistic combination of research, career development, and community
partnership activities that will engage communities in delivering and disseminating health disparity
interventions. Such community involvement has the potential to enhance the innovation, potency, relevance,
and sustainability of efforts to reduce health disparities.
The Administrative Core will oversee, manage, and coordinate all proposed activities and will facilitate
equitable, collaborative, and sustainable relationships with communities, institutions, and other stakeholders.
The Investigator Development Core will publicize the availability of a pilot project program and utilize an online
system for submission and review of applications. Both academic investigators and community organizations
will provide intensive support to pilot awardees to ensure successful project completion. Our two
complementary research projects involve novel approaches for engaging community members. The first
project seeks to address social contextual factors that function as barriers to hypertension management. We
will train lay health advisors to help African American patients with poorly controlled hypertension to address
these barriers. The second project seeks to increase the input of health disparity populations into the
dissemination of research findings by medical journals. We will train and mentor community members to
review manuscripts for two prominent journals. Journal editorial teams will then use these reviews in decisions
to accept, revise, or reject manuscripts. The Community Engagement and Dissemination Core will engage
with and disseminate research findings to community members, partner organizations, service organizations,
policymakers, and scientists. The Community Core will also develop a strategic plan to translate research
findings into sustainable community and system-level changes that will have a measurable impact on minority
health and health disparities. An independent evaluator will monitor and evaluate the processes and outcomes
of our activities. We will use ongoing evaluations to modify and improve our activities.
Strengths and innovative features of our application include involvement of a broad range of community
organizations, institutions, and multidisciplinary faculty and staff; use of theoretical models or conceptual
frameworks to guide the work of each Core and project; synergistic use of overlapping personnel, community
partners, and shared activities across Cores and projects; strong institutional commitment by Case Western
Reserve University and MetroHealth Medical Center, including provision of additional resources; and the
experience, expertise, and prior productivity of the personnel involved in the Center of Excellence.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10150476
- **Project number:** 5U54MD002265-15
- **Recipient organization:** CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Ashwini Sehgal
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $1,358,981
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2007-07-01 → 2024-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10150476

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10150476, Involving Communities in Delivering and Disseminating Health Disparity Interventions (5U54MD002265-15). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10150476. Licensed CC0.

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