# Administrative Core (AC)

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · 2021 · $1,465,923

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
The overall purpose of the NIH Coordination and Evaluation Center (CEC) at UCLA is to provide coordination
and operational support, conduct data coordination/collection and program evaluation, and disseminate best
practices on behalf of the NIH Diversity Program Consortium (DPC). In this second five-year funding period the
DPC will be comprised of the Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) awards and newly proposed
DPC Dissemination and Translation Awards (DaTA), as well as an expanded set of National Research
Mentoring Network (NRMN) programs including a NRMN Coordinating Center, a NRMN Resource Center and
up to15 NRMN U01 intervention awards. Consistent with RFA NOT-RM-18-005, during Phase 2 of the DPC,
the CEC will provide the coordination of DPC activities and evaluation of DPC interventions in order to: (1)
Gather additional data to test site-specific and consortium-wide interventions; (2) Provide the lessons learned
to assist DPC awardees (especially DaTA) transition into sustainable model institutions for enhancing diversity
in biomedical research; and (3) Support the dissemination of effective strategies for enhancing diversity in
biomedical research fields to a broad range of institutions and stakeholders in order to have a substantive and
lasting national impact.
 As the coordinating unit for CEC daily operations, the CEC Administrative Core (AC) will work internally
with the continuing activities of the CEC Data Coordination Core (DCC) and Evaluation Core (EC) to provide
seamless support for the collection and evaluation of relevant, accessible, valid, and reliable data that will
longitudinally track student/trainees' and faculty career progress, institutional transformation, and support the
key scalable DPC successes to share with the broader biomedical research community. The AC will also
support the new Communication and Dissemination Core (CDC) to create new tools to further enhance DPC
communications and processes, and disseminate DPC findings to a wide array of new audiences. Externally,
the AC will promote a collaborative environment across the DPC and will work closely with, and through, the
DPC Executive Steering Committee (ESC) to ensure the successful achievement of all Consortium objectives.
 In sum, the AC will: 1) Optimize the coordination and support of internal CEC activities across each core to
ensure: i) effective day-to-day operations, and ii) effective CEC communication with BUILD, DaTA, NRMN and
the NIH program office; 2) Coordinate and facilitate external collaborative activities among DPC members,
primarily through the DPC ESC, and its subcommittees and working groups to ensure all Consortium goals are
fulfilled; 3) Provide scheduling and administrative support to the new CDC efforts to disseminate effective
strategies for enhancing diversity in biomedical research fields: i) within the newly expanding DPC community,
and ii) to a broad range of institutions and other stakeho...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10213779
- **Project number:** 5U54GM119024-08
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
- **Principal Investigator:** Keith C Norris
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $1,465,923
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2014-09-26 → 2024-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10213779

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10213779, Administrative Core (AC) (5U54GM119024-08). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10213779. Licensed CC0.

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