# Community Engagement and Dissemination Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · 2021 · $118,719

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
 Established in 2003, the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health (CSAAH) is an NIMHD
Center of Excellence (COE) in its third cycle of funding and remains the only center within the NIMHD network
focused on understanding, addressing, and reducing health disparities among Asian American populations
through rigorous, transdisciplinary, and community-engaged research.
 In close partnership with the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF), CSAAH will build
on a strong platform of local and national reach among community partners to stimulate the development of
community-engaged research reflective of the diversity of the Asian American population. The co-Leads of the
Community Engagement and Dissemination Core are Chau Trinh-Shevrin, DrPH (CSAAH) and Kathy Ko Chin,
MS (APIAHF). This Core will establish a common centralized infrastructure that will support meaningful
community stakeholder engagement with the goal of accelerating the translation of COE research findings into
policy and practice recommendations for communities to improve healthy behaviors, access to care, and
utilization of timely health services. The specific aims of the Community Engagement and Dissemination Core
are to: 1) Engage Asian American communities in health disparities research, policy and practice translation,
and community dissemination through a participatory research approach; and 2) Serve as a national
information and dissemination resource on the health and social needs of Asian American communities that
will inform chronic disease prevention and health disparities research.
 Through participatory processes, the Core will employ several frameworks, including: the Framework for
Enhancing the Value of Research for Dissemination and Implementation, which aims to increase the value and
usefulness of research to end users and yield improvements in population health; the Consolidated Framework
for Implementation Research to inform understanding of the factors and barriers influencing delivery and
adoption of different interventions; and, underpinning these frameworks, the NIMHD Minority Health and Health
Disparities Research Framework. Core activities are centered on: 1) dissemination of disaggregated data on
Asian American social and health needs; 2) the promotion of community-clinical linkage strategies and
harnessing of data systems to increase access to and communication of social and health information for
chronic disease prevention; 3) support for the development and distribution of toolkits, technical assistance
materials, community and policy briefs, and conference events and seminars for sharing information to
facilitate knowledge exchange; and 4) the innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies for
knowledge exchange and translation of evidence-based interventions into policy and practice tailored to
multiple end-user audiences.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10207420
- **Project number:** 5U54MD000538-19
- **Recipient organization:** NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** CHAU TRINH-SHEVRIN
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $118,719
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2003-09-30 → 2024-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10207420

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10207420, Community Engagement and Dissemination Core (5U54MD000538-19). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10207420. Licensed CC0.

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