# Community Engagement and Dissemination Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · 2021 · $230,844

## Abstract

Abstract: Community Engagement and Dissemination Core
The goal of our Community Engagement and Dissemination Core is to nurture and disseminate innovative
research at the intersection of cognitive impairment, dementia, and Alzheimer's Disease within a Precision
Medicine framework that informs personalized prevention, diagnosis, and treatment later in life. Two distinct, but
related strategies characterize our approach to achieving this goal. The first strategy strengthens current
collaborations and establishes new ones with Native patient advocacy groups, tribal communities and their
leaders, providers and administrators in the Indian Health Service, tribal, and urban Indian health care system
(I/T/U), policymakers in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) health, and with other research intensive
universities. The second strategy recognizes that health research benefits patients and communities only if
scientists and health professionals use effective ways to communicate new findings across community settings
and into clinical practices. Our work will proceed using both innovative and traditional channels to disseminate
information and interventions that inform more precise approaches to preventing, diagnosing, and treating
cognitive impairment, dementia, and Alzheimer's Disease throughout AI/AN communities. Accordingly, the
specific aims are to: 1) reconfigure and expand collaborations with research partners across private, tribal, and
public constituencies to include an empirically driven focus on cognitive impairment, dementia, and Alzheimer's
Disease within a Precision Medicine framework; 2) develop a multi-level, multi-sector, empirically driven
infrastructure and related processes that ensure inclusion of local, regional, as well as national priorities for and
approaches to a Precision Medicine research agenda specific to this agenda among older AI/ANs; 3) disseminate
the results of Center Research Projects and Pilot Projects to the scientific community to encourage new research
collaborations between AI/AN communities and researchers; and 4) disseminate the results of Center Research
Projects and Pilot Projects to the communities of health professionals providing care for AI/AN patients and
communities by using modern methods of implementation science to affect practice change. The Community
Engagement and Dissemination Core will be led by Denise Dillard, PhD (Inupiat), Southcentral Foundation, and
Meghan Jernigan, MPH, Partners for Native Health, Washington State University. They will be responsible for
planning, coordinating, and implementing Core activities, including budget preparation, oversight of personnel
appointments, space allocation, and other aspects of program management and operation. Supported by the
Administrative Core, these activities will be carried out in concert with the Drs. Manson and Nelson, RP directors,
and the Center Executive Committee. Culturally tailored engagement and dissemination will play a critical role
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10164620
- **Project number:** 5U54MD000507-19
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER
- **Principal Investigator:** Denise A Dillard
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $230,844
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2003-09-30 → 2024-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10164620

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10164620, Community Engagement and Dissemination Core (5U54MD000507-19). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10164620. Licensed CC0.

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