# OHDRC Academic-Community Engagement and Dissemination Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · 2021 · $168,126

## Abstract

The primary objective of the Academic-Community Engagement and Dissemination Core (ACED) of the UAB
Obesity Health Disparities Research Center (OHDRC) is to build on the existing infrastructure to facilitate
academic-community engagement between investigators and stakeholders across the state of Alabama in order
to reduce obesity related health disparities between African American and Whites. The ACED Core will implement
initiatives and targeted communications to disseminate findings based on our proposed OHDRC approach and
framework taking into account stages in the life course, as well as the levels of influence (i.e., individual,
interpersonal, community and societal). Specifically, the ACED will: 1) Strengthen and expand existing
partnerships and coalitions to build statewide capacity for expansion of an integrated set of initiatives for obesity
reduction through healthy eating and physical activity; 2) Implement a “train-the-trainer” model to replicate
healthy eating and active living initiatives designed to serve as engaged dissemination strategies aimed at
individual, community and system-level changes across the life course; 3) Conduct targeted dissemination of
research-based obesity-related health disparities information using mass and targeted diffusion via
communication channels and established stakeholder groups; 4) Assist OHDRC pilot and research project
investigators in identifying and partnering with community organizations to inform their research and disseminate
findings and 5) Continuously monitor and assess the outcomes of engagement and dissemination activities.
Our approach of active community engagement in developing, implementing, and disseminating community
specific obesity initiatives will help individuals and communities use research findings in practical, scalable and
sustainable ways. This approach capitalizes on the processes and infrastructure we developed through the COE
P60 and the Mid-South TCC U54 to improve outcomes related to healthy eating and physical activity and to
strengthen the applicability of our research efforts, thereby increasing the return on these previous NIH
investments while building community capacity and transferring research findings into practice.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10161622
- **Project number:** 5U54MD000502-19
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
- **Principal Investigator:** MONA N. FOUAD
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $168,126
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2003-09-22 → 2024-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10161622

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10161622, OHDRC Academic-Community Engagement and Dissemination Core (5U54MD000502-19). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10161622. Licensed CC0.

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