# Community Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH P20** · MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY - BOZEMAN · 2024 · $243,066

## Abstract

Montana IDeA Community Engagement Core Project Summary
 The MT IDeA Community Engagement Core (CEC) has been critical to the program’s research
success for the last 20 years. The CEC is a shared core between MT INBRE and the Center for
American Indian and Rural Health Equity (CAIRHE), a phase 2 COBRE program at Montana State
University. The core collaborates with three networks: the MT INBRE statewide network (16 partner
institutions), the CAIRHE Health Equity Network (local, statewide, and regional health agencies,
foundations, and institutes), and RAIN (Regional Alliance of INBRE Networks), which includes all
seven states in the Western Region (AK, ID, HI, MT, NM, NV, WY). Working among these networks
enhances the collective impact of the CEC by facilitating broad public access to research findings:
sharing of data and new models for ensuring a healthy MT population, providing additional
opportunities for shared grant funding, and enhancing collaborative community-based participatory
research (CBPR), such as the impacts of climate change on health in our state. Overall, the CEC
elevates solutions to health disparities and helps to improve the health of all populations in Montana.
 To maximize its impact, the CEC will accomplish 3 Specific Aims. Specific Aim 1: Train
investigators and students involved in community-based participatory research (CBPR). In addition to
the CEC’s existing portfolio of formalized training tools spanning introductory to
advanced topics, the core is working with the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS), a
CTSA at the University of Washington (UW), to leverage expertise on both sides to build a solid
educational platform for investigators. Specific Aim 2: Expand the Health Equity Network and
partnerships in Montana and regionally. These partnerships are an excellent complement to the
academic institutional network developed by MT INBRE and have enhanced and expanded research
and its collective impact through community partnerships. Specific Aim 3: Develop strategies for
increased and improved dissemination and implementation of research and development of
interventions. Analysis of CBPR studies during INBRE IV revealed that in many cases information
and findings were not widely disseminated. We recognize that uncommunicated knowledge and
limited availability of research findings impede the value of many CBPR studies. The core will offer
academic-community partnership training for disseminating research statewide and regionally, with
the vision that research outcomes and interventions can be replicated in other communities facing
similar health equity challenges.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10875948
- **Project number:** 2P20GM103474-24
- **Recipient organization:** MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY - BOZEMAN
- **Principal Investigator:** Ann Therese Bertagnolli
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $243,066
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 2001-09-25 → 2029-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10875948

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10875948, Community Engagement Core (2P20GM103474-24). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10875948. Licensed CC0.

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