| AAHIP |
African-American Health Improvement Partnership |
| ACE |
Active Community Engagement |
| ACQUIRE |
Access, Quality and Use in Reproductive Health |
| AHRQ |
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
| ALA |
American Lung Association |
| AME |
African Methodist Episcopal |
| ATSDR |
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry |
| CAB |
community advisory board |
| CAC |
community advisory committee |
| CACHÉ |
Community Action for Child Health Equity |
| CAN DO |
Children And Neighbors Defeat Obesity/la Comunidad Ayudando a los Niños a Derrotar la Obesidad |
| CARE |
Community Alliance for Research and Engagement |
| CBO |
community-based organization |
| CBPR |
community-based participatory research |
| CCAT |
community coalition action theory |
| CCB |
Community Coalition Board |
| CCHN |
Community Child Health Network |
| CDC |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| CEnR |
community-engaged research |
| CHC |
Community Health Coalition |
| CHIC |
Community Health Improvement Collaborative |
| CTSA |
Clinical and Translational Science Awards |
| DCCR |
Duke Center for Community Research |
| DCH |
Division of Community Health |
| DEPLOY |
Diabetes Education & Prevention with a Lifestyle Intervention Offered at the YMCA |
| DPBRN |
Dental Practice-Based Research Network |
| DPP |
Diabetes Prevention Program |
| HAAF |
Healthy African American Families |
| HHP |
Hispanic Health Project |
| HOC |
Healing of the Canoe |
| HWA |
Houston Wellness Association |
| IRB |
institutional review board |
| IUSM |
Indiana University School of Medicine |
| JABGC |
John Avery Boys and Girls Club |
| JHCC |
Joyland-Highpoint Community Coalition |
| MOA |
memorandum of agreement |
| MUSC |
Medical University of South Carolina |
| MWC |
Mayor’s Wellness Council |
| NCCU |
North Carolina Central University |
| NICHD |
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development |
| NIH |
National Institutes of Health |
| N-O-T |
Not on Tobacco |
| NPU-Y |
Neighborhood Planning Unit Y |
| PA |
physical activity |
| PBR |
practice-based research |
| PBRN |
practice-based research network |
| PI |
principal investigator |
| PRC |
Prevention Research Center |
| RCT |
randomized controlled trial |
| SCC |
Suquamish Cultural Cooperative |
| SNA |
social network analysis |
| SuGAR |
Sea Island Genetic African American Registry |
| UCLA |
University of California, Los Angeles |