# Community Outreach and Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · 2021 · $155,938

## Abstract

COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT CORE: PROJECT SUMMARY
The Community Outreach and Engagement Core nurtures and disseminates innovative work at the
intersection of diabetes prevention and treatment and American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) within a
translational framework. Two distinct, but related strategies characterize our approach to achieving this goal.
The first strategy entails strengthening current collaborations and establishing new ones with Native advocacy
groups, tribal communities and their leaders, providers and administrators in the Indian Health Service, tribal,
and urban Indian health care system, policymakers, and other research intensive universities. Our purpose is
to sustain a research agenda of this nature, and to subsequently apply the resulting knowledge to the benefit
of Native people at risk of or suffering from diabetes. The second strategy recognizes that health research
benefits patients and communities only if scientists and health professionals use effective ways to
communicate new findings across community settings and into clinical practices. Thus, we consider how
health information is consumed in Native communities and explore creative ways to disseminate such
information and research findings to community members, the health professionals providing their care, the
systems responsible for these healthcare needs, organizations advocating for relevant policy, as well as
interested researchers. These activities will build capacity for advancing diabetes translation research in AI/AN
communities. Our vision is to promote the Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Diabetes Translation
Research as a national resource that contributes to developing new methods, technologies, and approaches
to disseminating innovative, goal-directed diabetes translation research specific to Native people.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10290850
- **Project number:** 2P30DK092923-11
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER
- **Principal Investigator:** Meredith Parrish Fort
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $155,938
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 2011-09-16 → 2026-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10290850

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10290850, Community Outreach and Engagement Core (2P30DK092923-11). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10290850. Licensed CC0.

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