# Advancing Health Equity Through Innovative Community Capacity Building, Data Science & Delivering Community-Centered Structural Interventions & Outcomes: Drexel's ComPASS Coordinating Center (C3)

> **NIH NIH U24** · DREXEL UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $2,881,667

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
The proposed Advancing Health Equity Through Innovative Community Capacity Building, Data Science &
Delivering Community-Centered Structural Interventions & Outcomes: Drexel's ComPASS Coordination Center
(C3) will provide oversight for the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the Community Partnerships to
Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) Program, a first-of-its-kind national effort to advance community-led
health equity structural intervention research. Acting as its backbone, the C3 will administer and coordinate
multiple components of the ComPASS Program through its three interdependent cores (Administrative, Data,
and Capacity-Building) including creation and facilitation of a national Health Equity Research Assembly
(HERA), establishing Communities of Practice (CoPs) and related affinity groups to foster cross-intervention
and multi-sector collaboration and co-learning, planning and delivery of a virtual kick-off and in-person annual
meetings, developing content for the programmatic website, oversight of data collection, harmonization,
reporting, and sharing processes, and delivery of expert-lead trainings, one-on-one and group consultations,
and technical assistance for ComPASS grantees. Our diverse team of investigators and staff has a sustained
history of working with community-based organizations (CBOs) to conduct health equity research and develop
and evaluate structural interventions in partnership with communities experiencing health and social inequities,
who have been traditionally underserved, neglected, and/or mistreated by the academic and research
enterprise. Our collective work spans urban and rural settings, local, national and global contexts, and a variety
of racial, ethnic, Indigenous, immigrant, border, faith, disability, and sexual and gender minority communities.
The C3 will play a critical role in ensuring NIH’s investment maximizes its impact, providing community
grantees the tools, resources, and network they need to conduct high-quality, impactful structural interventions
in their communities, ensuring the successes and lessons learned from those interventions are promoted
widely and scaled up (as appropriate), and rebuilding community trust after decades of neglect and harm.
Moreover, our overarching goal is to help CBOs in the ComPASS Program (and beyond) to advance health
equity in their communities and achieve the sustainability needed to ensure long-term benefits.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10933455
- **Project number:** 5U24NR021014-02
- **Recipient organization:** DREXEL UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Amy Carroll-Scott
- **Activity code:** U24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $2,881,667
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2023-09-22 → 2028-11-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10933455

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10933455, Advancing Health Equity Through Innovative Community Capacity Building, Data Science & Delivering Community-Centered Structural Interventions & Outcomes: Drexel's ComPASS Coordinating Center (C3) (5U24NR021014-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10933455. Licensed CC0.

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