# Outreach Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $68,748

## Abstract

Outreach Core Abstract 
In an effort to reduce cancer health disparities in racial and ethnic minorities, the NCCU/UNC LCCC Outreach 
Core will engage in community-based outreach efforts connected to cancer prevention research projects. We 
will build on long-standing partnerships between UNC and NCCU that continue to engage minority 
investigators and other key stakeholders in community-based intervention research to address cancer 
disparities. With ongoing guidance from the Partnership Community Advisory Board, our outreach strategy will 
include multiple levels of activities and intervention efforts consistent with the Social Ecological Framework 
(SEF), and grounded in principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR) and the NCI’s Stages of 
Health Communications. The Outreach Core has the following specific aims: 1) To support and expand specific 
outreach activities associated with community-based cancer prevention research projects; 2) To assist 
research projects in recruiting and retaining racial and ethnic minority participants in cancer prevention 
research interventions; 3) To encourage and assist research projects in exploring plans to sustain successful 
interventions beyond initial funding; and, 4) To work with racial and ethnic minority communities and the NCI’s 
National Outreach Network on an NCI-coordinated agenda that includes identification, development, and 
dissemination of health promotion/cancer education materials and important NCI disease prevention 
messages. This Outreach Core has an innovative, theory-guided approach to planning for sustainability, 
including a mini-grant program to seed cancer prevention projects that have the potential for sustainability. We 
believe the Outreach Core will serve as a meeting ground for faculty and staff interested in intervention 
research and will link NCCU researchers to the resources of UNC LCCC for the design and execution of 
interventions. We have the research team and relationships with community partners needed to meet or 
exceed NCI expectations for community outreach, and our team has demonstrated an ability to recruit and 
retain diverse participants in community cancer prevention trials that will serve as a strong foundation from 
which to build this Outreach Core.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10247143
- **Project number:** 3U54CA156735-10S1
- **Recipient organization:** NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Cherise Baldwin Harrington
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $68,748
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2010-09-29 → 2023-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10247143

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10247143, Outreach Core (3U54CA156735-10S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10247143. Licensed CC0.

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