# Community Engagement Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA · 2020 · $383,877

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
To achieve its primary objective of building trust-based relationships with communities to prioritize and conduct
basic biomedical, behavioral and clinical research and to disseminate and implement research findings, the
Community Engagement Core (CEC) will work closely with the Research Infrastructure Core, the Investigator
Development Core and the leadership and advisors of the RCMI Specialized Center. Relationship building will
be facilitated through community-university exchanges, community involvement in research prioritization and
proposal review, and capacity-building opportunities for members of community-based organizations (CBO)
that serve underrepresented groups, particularly Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders including
Filipinos.
Specific Aim 1. Nurture trust-based collaborative relationships with communities through capacity
building and resource sharing.
Plan: Strengthen relationships between university faculty and the extensive network of CBO partners (including
local governmental agencies) through capacity-building and resource-sharing activities to improve the health of
Native Hawaiians, other Pacific Islanders including Filipinos, immigrants, and groups marginalized because of
their ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual preference or identity, or geographic location.
Specific Aim 2. Promote and facilitate community participation in all aspects of health-disparities
research.
Plan: Foster community participation in conceptualization, design, planning and implementation of research
that is relevant to community concerns, and engage CBO in the review of research proposals.
Specific Aim 3. Disseminate research findings to the intended communities and service providers.
Plan: Create a communications infrastructure to facilitate the rapid dissemination of easily understandable
information on health promotion and disease prevention to the intended communities and through culturally
appropriate, scientific venues.
The proposed CEC action plans are expected to have a significant impact on creating sustainable university
partnerships with CBO, on diversifying the “thinkforce”, and on supporting the bidirectional flow of ideas to
tackle the root causes of and effective interventions for health disparities.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9960319
- **Project number:** 5U54MD007601-34
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA
- **Principal Investigator:** Kathryn Lenzner Braun
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $383,877
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-09-01 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9960319

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9960319, Community Engagement Core (5U54MD007601-34). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9960319. Licensed CC0.

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