# Community Engagement and Dissemination Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR · 2020 · $110,110

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT
The Community Engagement and Dissemination Core (CEDC) will create an information and dissemination
infrastructure in collaboration with the Administrative and Investigator Development Cores to improve how
evidence-based science is collaboratively disseminated while utilizing approaches that are aligned and
culturally-centered within community contexts. The CEDC will use community engaged research approaches,
including community-based participatory research (CBPR) in partnering with communities to advance and
create a bidirectional translational approach called Community Centered Dissemination Science. CCDS is an
innovative approach to ensure knowledge creation and dissemination, facilitated through a Community of
Practice for Dissemination (COP4D), a highly active university and community/tribal stakeholder partnership.
The CEDC and COP4D will collaboratively guide the TREE Center’s dissemination strategies to ensure
alignment with community/tribal preference for exchange of information on research objectives, lessons
learned, preliminary data, and overall findings to translate and disseminate transdisciplinary, multilevel science.
By bringing together diverse expertise in multilevel intervention research, we will be able to advance
implementation and dissemination science to reduce health inequities and behavioral health disparities. The
co-creation process of community-centered dissemination sciences aims to identify and integrate “scientific”
aspects of traditional knowledge and traditional aspects of “scientific knowledge” to bring together the
complementary strengths of community and academic expertise. The CEDC will work with both academic and
community/tribal behavior health stakeholders to implement timely and appropriate dissemination information
that emerges from the Center’s research and pilot projects. We seek to have major impact on behavioral health
disparities in New Mexico’s diverse population (with a focus primarily on American Indian, Hispanic/Latino and
rural/frontier communities), and the many social, political, and economic antecedents which are salient in these
populations. The CEDC’s three major aims will offer a framework to promote Community-Centered
Dissemination Science as part of its overall innovation to help academic investigators and communities identify
and translate differences between their two knowledge systems to ensure co-knowledge creation and co-
dissemination.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9969097
- **Project number:** 5U54MD004811-09
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR
- **Principal Investigator:** Victoria Sanchez
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $110,110
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2010-05-01 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9969097

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9969097, Community Engagement and Dissemination Core (5U54MD004811-09). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9969097. Licensed CC0.

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