Grant Number:	5UC2CA293782-02 Interpret this number
Primary Investigator:	Mullins, C. Daniel
Organization:	University Of Maryland Baltimore
Project Title:	Community-Led Research Project (CRP) Hub at Umb
Fiscal Year:	2026

Despite decades of concerted efforts to eliminate health disparities, there remains a critical need to improve heath in the United States. The proposed Community-led Health Research Project (CRP) Hub at the University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB) will serve as a centralized research resource for assigned CRPs who are conducting structural intervention research to address social determinants of health (SDOH). UMB, including our community research partners, will provide tailored scientific, technical, and collaborative support for sustainable community engagement, research capacity building, and training to assigned CRPs. This hub will act as an innovative national effort to improve health in the United States. As a centralized resource, the CRP Hub at UMB will play a vital role in the implementation and dissemination phases of the awarded and assigned CRPs. The proposed hub will employ strategies that are responsive and adaptive to the changing needs of the CRPs and the various communities they serve via our four Hub Units (Administrative and Coordinating Unit, Research and Capacity Building Training Unit, Research Methods and Data Management Unit, Community Engagement and Health Scholars Practice Unit) in partnership with our relevant and experienced multidisciplinary expert panel (MEP). Our proposal leverages many strengths of University of Maryland Baltimore, including UMB's Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) for which Dr. Mullins serves as Community & Collaboration Core Lead; the Institute for Health Computing, led by Dr. Maron; the PATIENTS Program and its successful PATIENTS Professors Academy, led by Hillary Edwards; and Dr. Baquet's decades of clinical trial recruitment and health disparities research. We also leverage UMB's longstanding community-academic partnerships (CAP) in leadership and governance; specifically: Mount Lebanon Baptist Church (Lance), AFRO (Draper), BTC Partners (Pinkett) and the Institute for Public Health Innovation (Monroe). Our vision is to serve as a catalyst for CRPs to complete their Structural Intervention Research Strategies in a rigorously scientific manner and achieve their goals in a manner that demonstrates how communities of patients and researchers can collaborate to address social determinants of health (SDOH) and improve health in neighborhoods and society at large.





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