# Jackson Heart Study (JHS) Community Engagement Center (CEC)

> **NIH NIH N01** · MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH · 2021 · $682,230

## Abstract

The goal of this acquisition is to provide a Jackson Heart Study (JHS) Community Engagement Center (CEC) to support activities to promote cardiovascular health in the Jackson community and beyond. The objectives are to (1) provide a strategy and infrastructure for delivering timely, evidence-based health information in general and heart disease risk reduction information in particular, especially findings from JHS and other related CVD research; (2) conduct evidence-based health education programming throughout the JHS area that serves to address heart disease risk factor reduction in African Americans; (3) establish strategic partnerships that broaden the reach of the JHS; (4) perform community-based pilot research studies or demonstration projects for CVD risk reduction that, if successful, can be scalable to larger efforts; and (5) publish results and impact of CEC's work.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10469967
- **Project number:** 268201800015I-P00003-26800001-1
- **Recipient organization:** MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
- **Principal Investigator:** VICTOR SUTTON
- **Activity code:** N01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $682,230
- **Award type:** —
- **Project period:** 2018-08-13 → 2022-08-12

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10469967

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10469967, Jackson Heart Study (JHS) Community Engagement Center (CEC) (268201800015I-P00003-26800001-1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-30 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10469967. Licensed CC0.

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