# Center for Latino Health Research Opportunities-CLaRO Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI CORAL GABLES · 2020 · $76,415

## Abstract

The Administrative Core of the Center for Latino Health Research Opportunities (CLaRO) will oversee and 
direct the proposed infrastructure for health disparities research, investigator development, and community 
engagement/dissemination. Over the past 10 years, the two partnering NIMHD Centers of Excellence for the 
proposed Center, El Centro at the University of Miami (UM) and CRUSADA at Florida International University 
(FIU), have individually built robust health disparities research infrastructures to support studies that have 
successfully recruited and retained research participants from marginalized Latino populations. The 
Management Plan of CLaRO includes a Multi-PI Plan (Mitrani, Contact PI at UM; De La Rosa, PI at FIU) and a 
set of leadership structures that will effectively guide and coordinate activities, create synergy, and promote 
partnerships. Senior administrators from UM and FIU will provide oversight and support. CLaRO will be 
evaluated annually on goals, process, and outcome metrics related to the Aims of the overall Center, each 
Core, and each Research/Pilot Project. An External Evaluator will conduct site visits and prepare Center 
Impact Reviews. The Specific Aims of this Core are to: (1) Oversee, manage, coordinate, support, and 
evaluate the full range of activities essential to achieving the CLaRO aims; (2) Ensure that CLaRO-supported 
Research/Pilot Projects have safeguards in place to protect human subjects and are in full compliance with 
applicable federal regulations and policies; (3) Provide a standard, translated, high quality set of common data 
elements and measures to be used across supported studies to enable testing of cross-study research 
questions; (4) Deliver scientific resources and administer/coordinate career enhancement activities to facilitate 
research and investigator development related to the CLaRO theme; and (5) Ensure the sustainability and 
expansion of CLaRO activities in the long-term for improving Latino health and scientific workforce diversity. 
Both partnering Centers of Excellence, led by the PIs of the proposed CLaRO, Mitrani and De La Rosa, have 
the administrative capacity and experience to lead community and scientific advisory boards, mentorship 
programs, and grants management operations, and to facilitate grant submission and dissemination activities. 
Both partnering Centers’ administrative cores have facilitated community based participatory research with a 
myriad of private and governmental clinical and social service organizations—including managing subcontracts 
and ensuring human subjects protection, data quality, and safety in community based research projects. The 
proposed collaboration is enhanced by the close proximity of the partnering institutions, which are located only 
five miles from each other. By uniting forces as CLaRO, we will harness the resources of a private (UM) 
university and public (FIU) university, and will unite two exceptionally strong networ...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10178960
- **Project number:** 3U54MD002266-14S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI CORAL GABLES
- **Principal Investigator:** Victoria Behar-Zusman
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $76,415
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2007-09-10 → 2022-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10178960

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10178960, Center for Latino Health Research Opportunities-CLaRO Administrative Core (3U54MD002266-14S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10178960. Licensed CC0.

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