# Community Partnership Consortium

> **NIH NIH U54** · HENRY FORD HEALTH + MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · 2024 · $250,896

## Abstract

Our Community Partnership Consortium (CPC) will organize and nurture productive and meaningful
relationships with a broad cross section of stakeholders, including representation from community, local, state,
and national organizations, including birthing people and their families, community members, trusted community-
based organizations, health systems, and Government, policy, and quality improvement partners. The CPC will:
(1) Contribute to the thematic focus of the Center; (2) Create cooperative and equitable partnerships between
the Center and the community partners in each stage of the research process (concept, implementation,
evaluation, and dissemination); (3) Use a novel, theory-based approach to dissemination that coordinates
dissemination activities among community members, partner organizations, and policymakers; and (4) Translate
findings into sustainable community and system-level changes locally, statewide, and nationally. The CPC will
create an action-oriented, inclusive, broad-based stakeholders’ consortium to act as full partners in increasing
the relevance and reach of Center activities. The CPC will engage members in promoting the utility, uptake,
dissemination, scalability, and sustainability of Center findings, and building maternal health equity research and
practice capacity. Transformative change/research begins with community; community is the heart of
community-based public health. The CPC will ensure that the Center has community at its heart.
 CPC members include health systems, community-based organizations, and other key stakeholders. Celeste
Sanchez Lloyd will serve as the health system/community lead. Ms. Lloyd currently serves as Program Manager
of Strong Beginnings-Healthy Start (of Corewell Health, a large health system), is a WK Kellogg Foundation
Community Leadership Fellow, and participates on several state boards focused on eliminating racism and
disparities. Kent D. Key, PhD will serve as the academic lead. Dr. Key is a health disparities researcher at
Michigan State University with extensive experience in community engaged research and building successful
community-academic partnerships, including for NIH Centers and national organizations. In addition, the CPC
brings national dissemination and implementation science expertise to the tasks of disseminating and translating
Center findings, including a novel, theory-based approach to dissemination and an entire Center Project (Project
3) dedicated to advancing the science of scale-up. Our group of CPC partners is uncommonly dedicated, skilled,
and connected. All of the CPC partners have expertise in or and understanding of the health equity framework.
Each has developed local and national partnerships and some degree of experience in health disparities
research, practice, and policy. The CPC will increase capacity to build collaborations and partnerships to
advance equity in maternal health. We will seek to build upon each of the partners’ networks to add r...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10908624
- **Project number:** 5U54HD113291-02
- **Recipient organization:** HENRY FORD HEALTH + MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** Kent Darnell Key
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $250,896
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2023-08-17 → 2030-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10908624

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10908624, Community Partnership Consortium (5U54HD113291-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10908624. Licensed CC0.

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