Network for Community-engaged Primary Care Research (NCPCR)
NCPCR Objectives:
- Support research on awareness, education, and health information needs relating to biomedical research.
- Promote inclusion of the most affected racial and ethnic groups in biomedical research, including clinical studies and trials.
To achieve these objectives, NCPCR hosted Learning Series webinars featuring health care providers discussing practice-based research. View recordings of NCPCR's Learning Series webinars on YouTube.
Awardees:
Morehouse School Of Medicine
Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) is among the nation’s leading educators of primary care physicians and is recognized for its social mission. MSM coordinates the Southeast Regional Clinicians Network which includes more than 230 federally qualified health centers, more than 1,700 clinical sites, and 8 state primary care associations serving over 4 million patients.
OCHIN
OCHIN is a nonprofit leader in equitable health care innovation and a trusted partner to a growing national provider network. With the largest collection of community health data in the country and more than two decades of practice-based research and solutions expertise, OCHIN provides the clinical insights and tailored technologies needed to expand patient access, connect and augment care teams, and improve the health of underserved communities.
Project methods include:
- Conducting a cluster randomized control trial that is studying the effect of a CHW-led social determinant of health screening and supported, closed loop referral on diabetes and hypertension in community health centers across the country.
- Leveraging national and regional coalitions across the Southeast Regional Clinitions Network (SERCN) and CEAL that built an NCPCR Dissemination Network to facilitate an exchange of educational materials and messaging, shared human capital, and collaborative models to build a strong platform for CEAL activities in the primary care safety net in the Southeastern region.
- Conducting in-depth interviews with clinicians, patients, and quality improvement staff, use electronic health records, health care utilization and quality improvement data to examine the impact of models used on health outcomes and health equity.
- Performing secondary data analysis of existing data and identify and spread innovative preventive health care, and post-acute sequelae SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) care models that emerged during the pandemic and measure the impact of these programs on health equity outcomes.
Meet the NCPCR Team
Dominic Mack, MD, MBA
Dominic Mack currently serves as director of the Morehouse School of Medicine’s National Center for Primary Care (NCPC). A, family physician, he is a longtime proponent of electronic health records. Under his leadership, the NCPC has several critical focus areas including health disparities, access to care and healthy lifestyle behaviors. His publications often focus on the topic of electronic health records and the role they play in advancing healthy equity. Dr. Mack joined MSM in 2001 and has served as medical director, and interim residency director for the department of family medicine.
Angeloe Burch, Ph.D.
Angeloe Burch currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer for the African American Community Collaborative and the Executive Director for the African American Dance Ensemble. He is a Member of the NC Museum of Arts Board of Trustees, on the Homeless Services Advisory Committee. A life of service and commitment to the community and to mankind is the most fulfilling thing any person could wish. Dr. Burch is the Executive Board member for the African American COVID response team, Board Chair for FCR (Families and Communities Rising), Member of the Access to Care Committee, a member of the National Kidney Foundation, Member of Red Mt. Lodge of the Prince Hall Masons, Durham Consistory #218, ZAFA Temple Shriners #176 and many other civic organizations.
Vanessa Marshall, Ph.D.
Vanessa Marshall is a Social Behavioral Scientist Administrator (Program Officer) in the Office of the Director at NIMHD. She manages and conducts research to advance public health prevention science. Her research focuses on improving health outcomes and promoting research to understand and address the multilevel determinants of factors that play a role in health disparities. She provides expertise in key research areas including minority health, health disparities, health services research, community engaged research, clinical trials, public health, quality improvement, implementation, dissemination and evaluation. She has fostered innovative collaborations and partnerships to promote and support evidence-based research to inform clinical practice and policy. Dr. Marshall’s experiences have allowed her to work at local, regional, national and international levels to investigate differences in health status and risk factors among populations to address health disparities.
Prior to joining NIMHD, she worked at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic, and Howard University School of Medicine. Dr. Marshall has held federal, academic, clinical instructor, research scientist, and training coordinator positions providing leadership and subject matter expertise. She has organized and conducted numerous public health initiatives designed to promote and advance prevention including those that engage patients through various screening programs and improve access to care. She has conducted research and evaluation projects across the life span of various populations and in the fields of infectious diseases and chronic diseases. She has served and volunteered on many community advisory boards, committees, professional organizations, and agencies. Dr. Marshall received her Ph.D. in public health from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.
Sonja R. Fuqua, Ph.D., RN
Sonja R. Fuqua is the Chief Clinical Services Officer for the Community Health Center Association of Mississippi. With over 30 years in nursing, her experiences range from Obstetric nursing (clinical) to Manager of Research and Recruitment with the Jackson Heart Study (10yrs), to four years with G. A. Carmichael Family Health Center (GACFHC), one of the CHCAMS member Community Health Centers. While with GACFHC, she served as the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Director and was responsible for overseeing the organization’s readiness for PCMH recognition and completing the application process for which Level 2 recognition was achieved.
Marion Sills, MD, MPH
Marion Ruth Sills (she/her/hers) is a health services researcher and pediatric emergency physician. Dr. Sills holds a joint appointment as the Director of Science Programs at OCHIN and as a Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Her work focuses on how social and biological determinants of health and provider/system bias impact health and health outcomes for different health conditions. She has also led quality improvement initiatives related COVID-19 and has been active in state-level health policy advocacy and communications.
Dr. Sills earned her MD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and her MPH from the Milken Institute School of Public Health and completed her pediatrics residency at Johns Hopkins and her pediatric emergency medicine subspecialty fellowship at Children’s National Medical Center.
Meet our Advisory Board (Coming Soon)
The study is being conducted through funding by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) (sub-OTA 6793-02-S027).