# Community Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH P50** · CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES · 2022 · $596,070

## Abstract

The Community Engagement Core (CEC) is pivotal to the scientific and public health impact of the
Southern California Center for Chronic Health Disparities in Latino Families and Children. The CEC will establish
and maintain collaborations between researchers, community organizations, clinicians and healthcare systems,
public health agencies, policy makers, and other key stakeholders. The CEC will be co-directed by Drs. Kipke
(CHLA) and Baezconde-Garbanati (USC) who both have extensive experience leading large-scale consortia,
conducting, and evaluating health promotion interventions with underrepresented communities, and leading
community engagement cores, and have an established track-record working together in this work. The Core
will leverage and build upon an existing network of NCAT funded Community Engagement Programs in Southern
California, which includes USC, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of California, Irvine
(UCI), and Scripps Research Translational Institute (Scripps). Other partners include University of California,
Riverside (UCR); Kaiser Permanente of Southern California; Family Health Centers of San Diego; Public Health
Foundation Enterprises Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children; and the Public
Health Alliance of Southern California (a consortium of all 10 County Health Departments). Representatives from
each partner institution will form the Community Engagement Leadership Team which will work in concert to
support the Center’s mission through a range of services, including: 1) Community engagement consultations to
support and assist Center projects and pilots with recruitment, retention, forging community partners, and
disseminating study findings; 2) Community listening sessions to identify community needs and priorities for
future studies; 3) Training promotores de salud to offer education and advocacy related to Latino health; 4) Our
Community/Our Health townhalls and other educational workshops that promote sharing of information and
research findings; 5) Research 101, a workshop designed to build capacity of community members to play a
meaningful role in academic-community partnerships; 6) A Community Reviewer Training Program designed to
prepare community members to participate as peer reviewers in the Center’s pilot study program; 7) Community
Mentoring Program, which pairs trainees and early career faculty from the Investigator Development Core with
community mentors; 8) Citizen Scientists designed to inform and empower community members to become
advocates for chronic disease prevention, and increase the workforce for community research and dissemination
of Center’s research for informed policy making; and 9) Developing novel approaches to disseminating findings
to key stakeholders, especially lay audiences. Through these actions and close integration with other Center
Cores, projects and pilot studies, the CEC will play a critical role in strengthening communi...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10494258
- **Project number:** 5P50MD017344-02
- **Recipient organization:** CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES
- **Principal Investigator:** Michele D. Kipke
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $596,070
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2021-09-24 → 2026-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10494258

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10494258, Community Engagement Core (5P50MD017344-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10494258. Licensed CC0.

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