Our social justice framework helps the CRHS identify interconnected patterns of systematic disadvantage in the community and in our research ecosystem to inform how the cores, research projects, advisory boards, and our broad-based coalition of academic and community partners can work synergistically to accomplish CRHS goals. Our coalition of stakeholders includes partners in the Northwest, Highlands and Delta regions of Arkansas and multiple institutional partners integrated into the cores and research projects who will employ common measures, tools, methods, and approaches to accomplish the CRHS goals.
The CRHS will work with the NIMHD Chronic Disease Disparities Coordinating Center to leverage and share resources, engage in cutting-edge cross center research, and increase networking and research opportunities for new investigators.
The CRHS also leverages multiple federally-funded resources including the Clinical Translational Science Award program, the National Research Mentoring Network, federally funded center grants, and federal surveys to help facilitate research, training, mentoring, dissemination, and translation of research to inform public practice and policy. CRHS builds on our prior successes and is creating a robust research ecosystem that serves as a national model for eliminating chronic disease disparities by using a social justice framework for research, training, and community engagement.