Susan Magasi and Joy Hammel awarded $4.5 million Medical Rehabilitation Research Resource Center grant on community-engaged research
Introduction
Susan Magasi and Joy Hammel are the Multiple Principal Investigators (MPIs) on the recently funded ENGAGED: Disability Community Engaged Medical Rehabilitation Research Resource Center (MRRRC) — a prestigious P50 grant from the NIH's National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research. The purpose of the ENGAGED MRRRC is to strengthen the national infrastructure for conducting rigorous, community-engaged medical rehabilitation research, with a sharp focus on the social determinants of health that impact the disability community.
This cross-AHS, multidisciplinary collaboration brings together expertise from Drs. Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar, Tanvi Bhatt, Sarah Parker Harris, Beth Marks, Andy Boyd, Robert Motl, Ed Wang, Karen Cielo (CCTS), Jeni Hebert-Beirne (School of Public Health), and Lex Freiden from the University of Texas Health, Houston, along with a vast network of community-based disability rights and rehabilitation research organizations.
The ENGAGED Center will be part of a dynamic network of six national MRRRCs, collectively tackling topics such as precision rehabilitation, artificial intelligence, data science and analytics, and health promotion.