The Community Engagement and Outreach (CEO) Core will enhance engagement and strengthen partnerships with medically under-resourced communities and communities with significant health concerns in Hawaii to accelerate the pace of clinical and translational research (CTR) advances to close the gap in health status and outcomes. Specifically, the CEO Core will strengthen the statewide Laulima Collaborative for community-engaged CTR, facilitate the conduct of community-engaged CTR and employ community-drive strategies to disseminate the implement CTR findings.
Services provided:
- Community Engaged CTR
- Community issues regarding assessment, measurement, and research designs
- Research development strategies for faculty from medically under-resourced groups
- Developing community relations with trust building
- Consultation on Community Engaged CTR projects from conception to dissemination
- Linking Community Engaged CTR investigators to local, national, and international resources
- Mentorship
- Mentoring/tracking junior faculty engaged in Community Engaged CTR
- Assist with community dissemination
Core Leaders
Core Director
John A. Burns School of Medicine, UHM
Associate Core Director
Papa Ola Lokahi