# Consortium Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · 2020 · $83,083

## Abstract

Despite ongoing efforts, medically underserved populations continue to experience disproportionate rates of
morbidity and mortality from chronic diseases. The disparity gaps are particularly notable among minority men.
Precision medicine holds significant promise to make substantial strides in reducing racial disparities through
the delivery of individualized health care based on biological, behavioral, and social factors that contribute to
disease risks and enhance health outcomes. Academic health centers, community-based organizations and
providers, and public health leaders need to play a collective role in developing, implementing, and
disseminating these precision medicine approaches into the settings that are most likely to impact the health of
minority men. To date, most precision medicine research and translation into the clinical settings have
traditionally been conducted within the context of academic health centers which largely reside in urban
settings with the highest levels of research and clinical care infrastructures. To expand the capacity to conduct
precision medicine in more regional, rural communities where the largest disparity gaps exist, an even more
collaborative community inclusive of academicians, community health care providers, public health advocates
from government and community-based organization will need to work together utilizing the principles of
community-based participatory research (CBPR) to understand the needs and tailor the mechanisms to best
translate precision medicine into the community settings where minority men largely seek their care. Therefore,
the Medical University of South Carolina Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center (MUSC TCC) will meet this
need by serving as a multi-regional hub for translating novel precision medicine approaches into the
community with an explicit goal to promote health equity among minority men. To this end, MUSC has
solicited the commitments from numerous academic and community-based advocates from HHS regions III,
IV, and VI who are equipped with the expertise needed to fulfill the goal of this TCC for form a Consortium
Core which will be the major component within the Center’s overall Consortium Steering Council. These
Consortium Core members will be charged with the following specific aims: (1.) Form a multi-regional
infrastructure to provide the direction, priorities and governance of this TCC to promote health equity among
minority men through precision medicine; (2.) Identify priorities for precision medicine research among diverse
academic, community, clinical, and public health stakeholders through the leadership of the Consortium Core
and by having key Consortium members reach out to their local communities to identify gaps and preferences
for precision medicine intervention which will inform future MUSC TCC research efforts; (3.) Implement and
monitor pilot project research to address minority men’s health in precision medicine; and (4) Translate findings
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9900597
- **Project number:** 5U54MD010706-05
- **Recipient organization:** MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
- **Principal Investigator:** Chanita A. Hughes-Halbert
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $83,083
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2022-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9900597

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9900597, Consortium Core (5U54MD010706-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9900597. Licensed CC0.

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