# Community Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $51,379

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract 
The Community Engagement Core derives from infrastructure established through successful long-term partnerships 
between South Florida (predominantly, Miami-Dade County, but also adjacent Broward County) communities and Florida 
International University’s (FIU’s) health disparities researchers. This existing infrastructure provides a unique and solid 
foundation on which to build the Center’s Community Engagement Core. FIU’s health disparities researchers have built 
trust with South Florida communities; the success of the Community Engagement Core, and the Center itself, relies on 
this trust. This core will encourage participants to engage in research that addresses minority communities’ health 
concerns, not only as research participants, but also by contributing to the early design of studies and dissemination of 
research results. Many of the FIU investigators in the Community Engagement Core come from underrepresented 
backgrounds in science, such as women, and racial and ethnic minorities, with a composition similar to that of our 
community. It is these investigators’ intimate and long-standing knowledge of the culture and beliefs of the community, 
and the ensuing cultural humility, that will facilitate recruitment of local populations into the proposed studies, and the 
establishment of long-term relationship with CBOs, such as community clinics, hospitals, wellness organizations, and 
others. As in our earlier health disparities work, we will encourage community partners to collaborate with FIU 
investigators in study design, study execution, participant recruitment, and dissemination of study findings across the FIU- 
RCMI’s proposed, pilot, and preliminary studies. Working with community partners, the Community Engagement Core 
will establish and support health disparities research in real life settings.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10194595
- **Project number:** 3U54MD012393-04S1
- **Recipient organization:** FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Adriana Maria Campa
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $51,379
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2017-09-20 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10194595

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10194595, Community Engagement Core (3U54MD012393-04S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10194595. Licensed CC0.

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