Community Promotion to Improve Equity in Cardiovascular Disease Services

This project aims to understand the strategies and resources needed for non-health focused community-based organizations (CBOs) to successfully implement evidence-based cardiovascular disease interventions in economically minoritized Black, Latinx, and Chinese communities. This project is done in partnership with ten CBOs in the Chicago metro region. These CBOs are working to provide blood pressure and diabetes screening and referral, as well as youth education on nutrition and physical activity. While we expect approaches will vary across the CBOs, we hope to identify a core set of strategies and resources that can be used in the future to better support CBOs to delivery health programs and participate in health research.