The Community Engagement Core (CE Core) develops, implements, and evaluates a community-based infrastructure to maintain linkage (engagement) between DRTC researchers and targeted communities, including community-based organizations, community leaders, potential research subjects, and community health-care systems and providers.
The CE Core emphasizes racial/ethnic disparities for diabetes which disproportionately affects minority populations.
Director: Mona Fouad, MD, MPH: 934-4307, mfouad@uab.edu
Co-director: Jamy Ard, MD: 934-5564, ardj@uab.edu
Co-director: Andrea Cherrington, MD: 996-2885, cherrington@uab.edu