Jackson Heart Study Community Outreach Center

The Jackson Heart Study (JHS) Community Outreach Center (CORC) is the ﬁrst center developed within a national study by the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) that is dedicated exclusively to community outreach and engagement and is housed within the Jackson State University (JSU) School of Public Health. The JHS CORC promotes the equitable involvement of partners in the entire research process. It encourages the JHS community to have a voice in the formulation of the JHS purpose and questions, outputs and outcomes, while contributing expertise, and sharing decision making and ownership. For CORC, this type of arrangement has the potential to facilitate and build community capacity as it enables members of the JHS community to become actively involved in the full range of JHS research-related activities. To learn more about the Jackson Heart Study Community Outreach Center visit our website at http://www.jsums.edu/jsucorc/.