Grant Number:	1UC2CA293786-01 Interpret this number
Primary Investigator:	Nunez-Smith, Marcella
Organization:	Yale University
Project Title:	Compass Health Equity Research Hub at Yale
Fiscal Year:	2024

ABSTRACT The Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) Health Equity Research Hub at Yale (Yale ComPASS Hub) will support select community-led health equity structural interventions (CHESIs) as identified by ComPASS leadership and will synchronize with the ComPASS Coordinating Center and the broader ComPASS program to provide thematic technical assistance across food/nutrition security, intergenerational family interventions, poverty-reduction, cultural resilience, and participatory research and implementation approaches. These thematic areas represent the extensive expertise of the team and address challenges encountered in diverse settings throughout the U.S. The Yale ComPASS Hub has the capacity to expand the breath of technical assistance thematic areas as CHESI needs are identified. The Yale ComPASS Hub will use community-academic partnerships to tailor and deliver responsive, accessible, and transformational technical assistance to CHESIs as they generate new scientific knowledge about community- led structural interventions to advance health equity. The overall aim of the Yale ComPASS Hub is to provide evidence-derived technical assistance and capacity-building support to CHESIs based on collaborative processes and practical guidance adapted by partnered academic and community leader Hub unit teams. Hub units will each be co-led by Academic and Community Director teams with almost two decades of experience working collaboratively on health equity-related research or practice initiatives. The Yale ComPASS Hub will elevate the role of partnered research and decision-making in grant governance and implementation, bring diverse methodological and analytical research expertise to facilitate transdisciplinary collaboration, meaningfully engage community members to more equitably partner in co-creation and implementation of research, and elevate the science of community engaged research to drive health equity.





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