Vanderbilt University and Meharry Medical College (MMC) have joined talents and resources in ourPrevention and Control (P&C) Core, which promotes important, innovative diabetes-related translationalresearch. The P&C core consists of two units, a Clinical Outcomes & Behavioral Science (COBS) Unit and aCommunity Outreach & Health Disparities (COHD) Unit. Together these units provide distinctive servicesalong the translational research continuum. Our work is designed to achieve a comon goal, namely totranslate diabetes research advances into clinical or community practice. Important components of our workare understanding and reducing racial and ethnic health disparities. The P&C Core and its two units provideservices to investigators with externally funded, diabetes-related translational research addressing thefollowing areas: innovations in care, community engagement, culturally-sensitive/competent interventions,clinical trials, quality improvement, quality assurance, health services research, clinical and psychosocialepidemiology, physical and social environments, and community-based participatory research. During thecurrent funding cycle, the COBS Unit made a successful transition from a group that was funded to conductresearch projects in the area of patient education and psychosocial aspects of diabetes to a core designed tosupport externally funded research. At the same time, the COHD Unit similarly evolved to be a leader inresearch on racial and ethnic health disparities. While we will continue our support of these research areas,we have also greatly expanded the P&C's support services for health services research by recruitingadditional investigators and adding new services. P&C Core resources allowed investigators to increase thequality of talent and resources to which they had access, thus leveraging limited resources. The opening ofthe Vanderbilt Eskind Diabetes Clinic in 2005 is providing additional translational research opportunities.With P&C Core support, investigators made significant findings about how patient literacy and numeracyimpact diabetes care, about factors involved the relapse of diabetes control, and about how communityfactors impact diabetes care. In addition, the P&C Core continues to enhance the career development ofjunior investigators at Vanderbilt and Meharry, many of whom were supported by the DRTC's Pilot andFeasibility Grant mechanism. The P&C Core continues to play an integral role in overall Vanderbilt DRTCactivities including its seminar series, its annual Diabetes Day, training programs, and leadership. The P&CCore is also engaged in collaborative efforts with other institutions and DRTCs to raise the visibility of andimprove access to translational, diabetes-related research services.
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