# Core 03: Community Engagement and Outreach Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · LSU PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CTR · 2022 · $216,619

## Abstract

Project Summary: Community Engagement and Outreach Core 
Community Engagement and Outreach (CEO) is a Core of the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science 
Center (LA CaTS) that facilitates meaningful community involvement in LA CaTS research at all levels. 
Expanded use of community-based participatory research (CBPR) has been noted as a “strategic imperative” to 
develop effective interventions to address health disparities. Community Engagement is an essential component 
of the research process. A review of the history of earlier population-based studies, in both majority and minority 
populations, indicates that requisite to a study's success is the comprehensive involvement of the study 
population's Community. Over the past nine years, CEO has successfully forged and nourished relationships 
with various community members some of whom serve on the three active Community Advisory Boards in New 
Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport. Additionally, the CEO has provided web-based and in-person training 
to LA CaTS researchers, CAB members, and community organizations on core principles of CBPR, health 
disparities and social determinants of health, and their application to clinical and translational research. With 
community-partnership and -input, LA CaTS investigators increased their success in research funding. 
Additionally, the investigators have been responsive to community-identified health concerns and are aligning 
those concerns with their research focus. To actively foster academic-community collaborative research, CEO 
established and has maintained the LA CaTS Community Scholars Program (LaCoSP). Building on the 
foundation laid for the next funding cycle, the specific aims of the CEO fall into three categories: 1) Expand the 
reach of LA CaTS into Louisiana communities, allowing greater community involvement in setting research 
priorities, identifying health priorities of communities, and creating more opportunities for academic-community- 
Health systems research partnerships in Louisiana; 2) Provide services and resources to LA CaTS investigators 
and community partners to facilitate bi-directional and trusted community engagement and outreach activities, 
community-engaged research, and effective translation of research findings; and 3) Create and maintain 
strategic partnerships between researchers, healthcare practitioners, and lay communities that will promote 
community-engaged translational/clinical research and health promotion leading to mitigation of health 
disparities.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10667107
- **Project number:** 2U54GM104940-07
- **Recipient organization:** LSU PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CTR
- **Principal Investigator:** Daniel F Sarpong
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $216,619
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 2012-08-15 → 2027-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10667107

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10667107, Core 03: Community Engagement and Outreach Core (2U54GM104940-07). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10667107. Licensed CC0.

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