# Component B: Coordinating Center for Community Characteristics Associated with Geographic Disparities in Diabetes

> **NIH ALLCDC U01** · DREXEL UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $300,000

## Abstract

Project Summary
Understanding the role of policy and environmental factors in diabetes at the community level will allow for
better interventions to reduce disparities in diabetes, and help improve the health of the public: as the
Coordinating Center (CC) for the CDC's multi-site program Community Characteristics Associated with
Geographic Disparities in Diabetes and Cardiometabolic Health, we will contribute the expertise in both
scientific content and management to further this understanding. The CC will support a variety of activities, with
a primary goal of facilitating a collaborative relationship across the study sites. Our CC will be organized into
three teams: the Operations Team, the Analytic Team, and the Information Technology team, in order to best
meet the study-wide needs, with each team-leader a member of the CC Executive Committee. The CC
Executive Committee will meet weekly to discuss the progress of each team, and to ensure that the CC is
meeting its benchmarks on the appropriate timeline. The Operations Team will be responsible for overseeing
the day-to-day management of the study; organizing and facilitating Steering Committee meetings; organizing
and facilitating any subcommittee meetings; planning, organizing and facilitating the annual workshop; and
implementing the data management and quality control/quality assurance plan. The Analytic Team will work
with the Steering Committee to develop the study-wide shared hypotheses, and to design and implement the
analysis to test the shared hypotheses. Further, the Analytic Team will work with each study site to ensure
analyses are of the highest quality, and provide input and assistance as needed. The Analytic Team will work
with researchers study-wide to disseminate study results through publications and presentations, and will work
with the CDC to prepare and distribute publically available data at the conclusion of the research. The
Information Technology team will be responsible for designing, implementing and testing the study-wide
website and databases, including ensuring data security, implementing smooth and efficient secure data
transmissions, and facilitating web-based communications to enrich collaboration. The Information Technology
Team will work with the Analytic Team to prepare and distribute the publically available data. Our team has
extensive experience in the design, management and analysis of data from large epidemiologic studies and
multicenter clinical trials, as well in the dissemination of research results to the scientific and lay communities.
We have a history of successful multi-site collaborations, and are well-positioned to create an environment
which promotes communications and collaborations in this study.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10201406
- **Project number:** 5U01DP006293-05
- **Recipient organization:** DREXEL UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Leslie Ain McClure
- **Activity code:** U01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** ALLCDC
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $300,000
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-09-30 → 2022-09-29

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10201406

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10201406, Component B: Coordinating Center for Community Characteristics Associated with Geographic Disparities in Diabetes (5U01DP006293-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10201406. Licensed CC0.

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