# Community Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · DUKE UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $86,854

## Abstract

ABSTRACT: Community Education and Dissemination Core (CEDC) 
The overall objective of the Duke Center for Research to Advance Healthcare Equity (REACH Equity) 
Community Engagement and Dissemination Core (CEDC) is to facilitate reciprocal partnerships between 
community stakeholders, investigators, and Center leaders to enhance the relevance, impact, dissemination 
and translation of our research into clinical practice. Although the CEDC is its own Core, it will be fully 
integrated across all cores and research projects. The CEDC will ensure that all of the Center's activities are 
informed by patients and other stakeholders whose work directly impacts the patient care experience, including 
healthcare providers and health-system leaders. Stakeholders will provide input into Center operations, 
strategic planning, selection of projects for funding, research proposals from study start-up through 
interpretation of findings, dissemination strategies and research education and training programs. The CEDC 
will be led by transdisciplinary faculty with expertise in health disparities research, clinical care, and community 
engagement. 
The Specific Aims of the Core are to: (1) establish a Stakeholder Advisory Board (SAB) to facilitate the active, 
ongoing engagement of patients, clinical providers, health system leaders and community-stakeholders in all 
REACH Equity activities; (2) provide training to stakeholders, center leaders, and investigators to maximize 
effectiveness of academic-stakeholder partnerships; (3) establish a robust dissemination plan which reaches 
and is tailored for a broad group of stakeholders, including patients, providers, and health system leaders.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10159131
- **Project number:** 5U54MD012530-05
- **Recipient organization:** DUKE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Nadine Josann Barrett
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $86,854
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-09-25 → 2024-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10159131

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10159131, Community Engagement Core (5U54MD012530-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10159131. Licensed CC0.

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