# Community Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $502,101

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
The Community Engagement Core (CEC) will cultivate and sustain productive collaborations and
partnerships with community-based organizations to foster awareness of and participation in health
disparities research among minority populations in Arizona. The CEC will use the concepts of Inquiry and
Action to guide a four-direction framework to pursue specific aims of: Dialogue, Knowledge, Action, and
Reflection. Dialogue (Aim 1): Guided by the Communities in Action – Pathways to Health Equity Model, the
CEC will engage stakeholders (e.g., community-based organizations, community leaders, policy experts, and
researchers) in guided communication and consensus building to synthesize existing regional “needs
assessments” and health promotion strategies to yield a meta-analysis of challenges and resources to identify
commonalities in health trends, drivers of health disparities, and assets nurturing resilience. Knowledge (Aim
2): Drawing on outcomes of Aim 1, the CEC team will increase awareness of health disparities research, and
develop and facilitate regular webinars that showcase successful community-university collaborations to
promote recruitment, participation and retention of underserved populations in health disparity research.
Action (Aim 3): Community Coalition Action Theory will support mobilization of multi sectorial, public-private
and community-based organizations to address priority health disparities research areas through
implementation and translational science. These activities will occur in bi-annual face-to-face workgroups and
will establish action plans building on existing resources and establishing clear documentation of resource
gaps. Reflection (Aim 4): The CEC will use NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Partnerships for Environmental Public Health Indicators and the Community Readiness model to collect
qualitative and quantitative measures of communities' and researchers' capacity, resilience and readiness for
collaborative research. Key outcomes will be understanding of roles in and evolution of partnerships,
promoters of health-related resilience (e.g., community collective action and advocacy) and willingness to
invest in health equity research. The anticipated outcomes of the CEC's application of a four-direction
framework is a picture of the shared and distinct determinants of health in Arizona that informs a dynamic
comprehensive plan and SHERC-community partnerships designed to affect action at the community, provider
and policy level for health equity research, dissemination, translation, and intervention.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10207301
- **Project number:** 5U54MD012388-05
- **Recipient organization:** NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** NICOLETTE I TEUFEL-SHONE
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $502,101
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-09-20 → 2022-09-19

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10207301

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10207301, Community Engagement Core (5U54MD012388-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10207301. Licensed CC0.

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