Community Engagement Alliance Against Disparities

Summary

The Community Engagement Alliance against Disparities - Washington District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia (CEAL DMV), is a multi-community and multi-university consortium. Through collaboration and shared leadership, the CEAL-DMV the consortium- comprising five institutions: George Washington University, Howard University, Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore-has established a regional structure for bi-directional community involvement to engender trust and foster communication. Each site builds on thriving community partnerships, which have been instrumental in enhancing trust, community capacity, and readiness to reduce health disparities.

Conditions

• Diabetes
• Pre-diabetes
• Hypertension
• Overweight and Obesity

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Multi-level, community-digital health promotion intervention

Community level activities: 1. Capacity building for community-based organizations, and 2. Community health workers will facilitate linkage to community resources, including health/social service access referrals and client social support. Individual level activities: 1. Goal setting and self-monitoring, 2. Tailored feedback, 3. Personalized lifestyle coaching, health and social service referral support, and 4. Digital access and digital health literacy skills building Social network: 1. Social network-based activities, and 2. Digital health literacy skills building

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Baltimore CONNECT

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Coaching Salud Holistica

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• La Clinica del Pueblo

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Rivera Group

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• The Medi Inc.

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Westat

  collaborator OTHER

• Johns Hopkins University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Cheryl Himmelfarb, PhD, MSN, BS · Johns Hopkins University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-12-20

Primary Completion

2026-12-20

Completion

2027-09-30

Countries

• United States

Study Locations