Core Co-Director: Andrea Cherrington, MD
Coordinator:  Monique Jackson
Email: mjackson@dopm.uab.edu
Phone: 996-2432

How DRTC Community Engagement Core Can Help!

• Provide access to a well-established coalition made up of community members able to serve as interested and well-informed leaders in the fight against diabetes in their communities
• Provide expertise and assistance with grants related to diabetes and community-based participatory research
• Assist investigators with implementation of research practices, to include measures, communications, and outcomes assessments as they relate to diabetes
• Connect investigators  to 33 trained Community Health Advisors willing to help DRTC investigators extend their reach into the community
• Help DRTC investigators pilot-test research tools and protocols to measure socio-cultural factors related to health disparities