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 |