# Delaware Clinical and Translational Research ACCEL Program-CEO Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE · 2020 · $400,462

## Abstract

Abstract—Community Engagement & Outreach
Community engaged research is a value system that gives priority to the voice of the community and patients. Over
the past four years the Community Engagement & Outreach (CEO) key component activity (KCA) of the Dela-
ware-CTR ACCEL Program has been successful in meeting the original Specific Aims. We have established a new
infrastructure that actively involves our community in setting clinical and research priorities; have developed new
community-institutional partnerships; and have educated community leaders, health care providers, scholars,
researchers, and trainees in the principles, practice, and value of community engaged research. CEO’s success
has been fostered by creating strong, bidirectional relationships with our community and by integrating commu-
nity engaged research into the ACCEL Program’s culture. The overall goal of CEO is to continue to make research
more impactful and responsive to community needs. The specific aims of the CEO KCA are to: 1) Give voice and
priority to the needs of our communities and patients; 2) Integrate community engagement ubiquitously across
all ACCEL components; and 3) Create and nurture teams that incorporate community engaged research strat-
egies. CEO will accomplish these aims by refining and expanding our community needs assessment as well as a
complementary strengths assessment and we will use these as a tool to create a shared agenda between ACCEL, the
community, and the Delaware Division Public Health. Our CEO team will work actively with each ACCEL KCA and
each partner institution, including our newest partner, Delaware State University to integrate and prioritize com-
munity engaged research. CEO will continue to engage, educate and support research teams in community engaged
research, including at least one community engaged research pilot grant recipient team yearly. And finally, CEO will
work with the ACCEL Professional Development KCA to disseminate our successful, well-received, and adaptable
community engaged research curriculum to all ACCEL investigators. Engaging patients and diverse communities
in research improves research impact by using the unique local knowledge of the target community to identify key
questions and desired outcomes from the perspective of the patient and community. Community engagement has
the power to link the critical process of research to the creative process of dissemination, implementation and policy.
The ACCEL CEO team has the experience, knowledge, skills, and relationships to support a culture shift that fosters
community engaged research that addresses our community’s priorities across Delaware and the region.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9988450
- **Project number:** 5U54GM104941-08
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
- **Principal Investigator:** STUART A. BINDER-MACLEOD
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $400,462
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9988450

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9988450, Delaware Clinical and Translational Research ACCEL Program-CEO Core (5U54GM104941-08). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9988450. Licensed CC0.

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