# REACH Center Community Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH P20** · GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $239,649

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY - COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE
The REACH Center Community Engagement Core will develop and apply strategies for catalyzing the co-
creation of REACH Center climate and health research projects and study outputs in support of policy
decision-making and implementation. By serving as a bridge between REACH Center academic investigators
and multiscale stakeholders, the Core will build trust, transform solutions, speed implementation, and lower
resistance to policy change through integration of community input and involvement into Center activities,
including its investigator-initiated research projects, pilot projects, and student fellowships. As effective climate
change mitigation and adaptation requires action at all levels of governance and facets of civil society, the CEC
will engage with a variety of actors and end-user communities who are positioned to take health-protective
action on climate change. This includes civic organizations that represent communities such as mayoral
associations, regional government associations, health and hospital systems, environmental organizations,
and disease-focused associations, as well as federal, state, and local governmental agencies. Rather than
focusing on a single or small set of community groups, the CEC focuses on providing tools and frameworks
that build capacity for developing targeted, collaborative teams between investigators and end-users that have
the knowledge, skills, experiences, and agency to create change. The Core will initiate and facilitate co-design
strategies for developing and applying the outputs of scientific investigations that inform climate solutions,
including mitigation or adaptation interventions or policies. To do so, the Core will create researcher/end-user
teams by matching REACH Center research project and pilot award academic investigators with relevant
community groups, advance scientific literacy and awareness of climate change and human health links
through communication and outreach strategy support, and integrate community engagement across REACH
Center Cores. The Core will also evaluate formative REACH Center engagement and communication
strategies between investigators and potential end-users of research project outputs in the co-generation of
policy-relevant research questions and products to further advance to a Center of Excellence. This will be
accomplished by developing a set of evaluation metrics for select research and pilot project teams based on
shared objectives of researchers and end-users, and identifying successful engagement processes and
infrastructure needs for further catalyzing use of REACH Center research products in federal, state, and local
policy contexts. The Community Engagement Core will empower REACH Center investigators to develop
community-engagement skills and access networks of end-users that allows for the application of scientific
insights and tools in policy decision-making, design and implementation. These activities wi...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10982796
- **Project number:** 1P20ES036775-01
- **Recipient organization:** GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Sarah Vogel
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $239,649
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2024-09-19 → 2027-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10982796

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10982796, REACH Center Community Engagement Core (1P20ES036775-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10982796. Licensed CC0.

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