# Community Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS EL PASO · 2022 · $25,334

## Abstract

ABSTRACT 
The overarching goal of the community engagement core (CEC) of the Border Biomedical Research Center for 
Hispanic Cancer Health Disparities (BBRC-HCHD) is to reduce and eliminate Hispanic cancer health 
disparities through collaborative partnership, community based participatory research and dissemination 
strategies. The CEC was established over four years ago to foster integrative research, translate and 
disseminate findings, and to partner with the RCMI RTRN. Since then, the CEC has been developing and 
nurturing bidirectional community partnerships to facilitate the translation of scientific findings, maximize 
resources, and increase the community’s capacity for research. The CEC will continue its work to expand 
bidirectional, binational partnerships between BBRC-HCHD researchers, community collaborators, and 
stakeholders to gain insight into the expressed health-related needs of the region. These collaborations will 
facilitate biomedical and behavioral research that will expand the scope and breadth of the BBRC-HCHD. 
Targeted strategies will drive the proposed efforts and are delineated in three Specific Aims: 1) Create and 
foster meaningful partnerships to expand the breadth/scope of BBRC-HCHD collaborations to facilitate 
community engaged research addressing expressed health-related needs and priorities, 2) Leverage 
opportunities to engage, recruit, and retain participants in research studies within our predominantly Hispanic 
population of Mexican origin, and 3) Augment culturally and linguistically sensitive dissemination strategies of 
research results by partnering with community collaborators and stakeholders to reach our undeserved and 
rural communities. In order to accomplish the proposed work, the CEC will utilize community based 
participatory research strategies, and evaluation methods. Implementation of the proposed work will be multi- 
pronged, utilizing multi-media technology and face-to-face contact. A promotores de salud/Community Health 
Worker (CHW) model will be included as one of the proposed strategies to reach underserved community 
members in a culturally and linguistically sensitive manner, to facilitate community outreach and dissemination 
efforts at a “grass roots” level.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10588296
- **Project number:** 3U54MD007592-29S3
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS EL PASO
- **Principal Investigator:** Bibiana Marie Mancera
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $25,334
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 1998-06-15 → 2024-02-29

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10588296

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10588296, Community Engagement Core (3U54MD007592-29S3). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10588296. Licensed CC0.

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