# Community Engagement and Outreach Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · 2023 · $267,461

## Abstract

The Center for Pacific Innovations, Knowledge, and Opportunities (PIKO) will develop a robust clinical and
translational research (CTR) infrastructure for Hawaii to implement CTR to reduce health disparities among
indigenous Pacific Peoples (IPPs; defined as Native Hawaiians, Other Pacific Islanders, and Filipinos) and other
medically underserved and vulnerable groups. Community-academic partnerships will accelerate the pace of
CTR advances to improve IPP health and wellbeing and close the gap in the health disparities in Hawaii. The
objective of the Community Engagement and Outreach (CEO) Core is to enhance engagement and strengthen
partnerships with IPP and other underserved communities in Hawaii. The CEO Core brings together the Laulima
Collaborative comprised of practice-based organizations (PBO) and other community-based organizations
(CBO) to achieve the following Specific Aims:
 Specific Aim 1: Strengthen the statewide Laulima Collaborative for community-engaged CTR by
providing strategic investments in the Laulima Collaborative to sustain trust-based partnerships; enhancing
strategies to promote participation of IPP-focused PBO and other CBO in CTR and encourage participation in
practice-based research network (PBRN) projects; and building institutional capacity to respond to prioritized
IPP health issues.
 Specific Aim 2: Facilitate the conduct of community-engaged CTR by mentoring junior investigators (JI)
and established investigators (EI) to conduct community-engaged CTR; linking JI/EI with research-ready
community partners; and developing an IPP participant registry to maximize recruitment and retention for CTR.
 Specific Aim 3: Employ community-driven strategies to disseminate and implement CTR findings by
establishing a Community Advisory Board (CAB) to coordinate CEO Core activities, review pilot projects, and
interface with the Internal and External Advisory Committees; convening an annual workshop to set strategic
goals, share best practices for community-engaged CTR and dissemination and implementation; and
implementing an active communication and dissemination plan to ensure that research findings and innovations
are shared with intended communities in a user-friendly format.
 At the end of 5 years, the CEO Core will have helped to expand and sustain CTR partnerships by facilitating
the bidirectional flow of ideas between academic and community partners to reduce health disparities and by
creating productive, supportive environments for JI/EI to collaboratively conduct CTR. Moreover, the CEO Core
will have connected communities, investigators, and other PIKO cores to ensure culturally-appropriate methods,
tools, and interventions were used to reduce health disparities in communities across Hawaii.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10685394
- **Project number:** 5U54GM138062-03
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA
- **Principal Investigator:** Deborah A. Goebert
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2023
- **Award amount:** $267,461
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2021-09-01 → 2026-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10685394

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10685394, Community Engagement and Outreach Core (5U54GM138062-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10685394. Licensed CC0.

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