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Core Units

Multiethnic Emphasis

Director: JoEllen Wilbur, PhD, RN, FAAN

Co-Directors: Barbara Dancy, PhD, RN, FAAN; Cynthia Barnes-Boyd, PhD, RN, FAAN; Beverly McElmurry, EdD, RN, FAAN; Arlene Miller, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Carmen Giurgescu, PhD, RN.

Services provided by this core:

  1. Maintain a multiethnic advisory committee of experts from the community
  2. Develop partnerships with selected ethnic communities to promote community health-related capacity-building and culturally competent research
    • Hold research roundtables for center investigators/affiliates and community participants
  3. Provide consultation regarding
    • Cultural competence in studies with a focus on low-income African American subjects
    • Methods for working within communities for mutual benefit
    • Recruitment and retention of multiethnic research participants
  4. Maintain a library of resources addressing cultural competence in research
    • Measures/Instruments/Questionnaires
    • Reference books, articles, national databases
    • Videotapes
  5. Maintain a repository of data sets that represent subjects diverse in ethnicity (in conjunction with the Biobehavioral Methods Core)