# Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · 2022 · $289,099

## Abstract

Core E: Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement Core: Abstract:
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an
enormous public health problem and its increasing prevalence demands a concomitant increase in AD-related
outreach, research recruitment, and community engagement. In response to a local needs assessment and
calls for action at the state (PA State Alzheimer’s Plan) and federal (National Alzheimer’s Project Act) levels,
we have identified the following specific aims for the proposed period of support: Aim 1) To sustain effective
and initiate new community engagement activities that are responsive to local stakeholder needs and address
regional and national priorities in Alzheimer’s disease research and care; Aim 2) To facilitate recruitment of
diverse participants at the earliest end of the AD spectrum into the Clinical Core and ancillary studies; and Aim
3) To train health professionals and students of the health sciences in the diagnosis of persons at the earliest
end of the ADRD spectrum with an emphasis on translating a) cutting edge biomarker research and b)
emerging evidence regarding the heterogeneous nature of AD and evidence-based treatment approaches to
community based providers of the present and future. We will achieve these interrelated aims through a
research strategy that includes innovative programming and builds on our biggest successes over the past
several years. Primary examples of planned activities for Aim 1 include partnering with key civic and social
service organizations, maintaining a community advisory council, developing neighborhood-based engagement
programs ranging from a lecture series in a community auditorium to AD “pop ups” in Black owned and
operated establishments. Examples for Aim 2 include overhauling our recruitment messaging to consistently
highlight the research participation narratives of African Americans in the Clinic Core and weaving such
narratives into a wide range of digital and print materials. The primary foci of Aim 3 are developing and
delivering on-site interprofessional clinical training, as well as continuing education programs to larger
professional audiences in partnership with UPMC, the Alzheimer’s Association and the University’s HRSA-
funded Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Project (Aim 3). These and other elements of our research strategy
will be evaluated on an ongoing basis using such methods as tracking the number and characteristics of
participants in our programs (community, student, and professional), administering feedback forms and/or pre-
post activity surveys to each group of learners, and monitoring the number of individuals who sign up to
receive information or be contacted by the PITT-ADRC either following community presentations, or as a result
of specific partnerships with community groups, providers, and other research collaborators.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10410385
- **Project number:** 5P30AG066468-03
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
- **Principal Investigator:** JENNIFER Hagerty LINGLER
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $289,099
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-05-15 → 2025-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10410385

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10410385, Outreach, Recruitment and Engagement Core (5P30AG066468-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10410385. Licensed CC0.

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