About Us
The FSU CTSA Community Engagement Core provides community engagement services to the FSU community. The team collaborates with a range of partners, including partnering academic institutions, state and local governmental agencies, health care providers, community groups, nonprofit organizations, and advocacy groups. The Community Engagement Core has successfully collaborated on research projects across the state of Florida. The College of Medicine’s community-based model of education provides an ideal foundation for the development of research collaborations across our regional campuses and rural programs. Over 2,500 clinical faculty represent the FSU College of Medicine in a variety of settings, including private, group, or hospital-based practices, providing diverse real-world settings to conduct health and clinical research.
Our team of experts will work with you to facilitate and guide your research planning and design to execute high quality, high impact clinical and translational research. We are committed to providing exceptional customer service and are here to help you with any of your research needs and questions.
Our History
The Network for Clinical Research and Training (NCRT) was formally launched in the fall of 2010. Health IMPACTS for Florida (Integrating Medical Practice and Community-based Translational Science) was our initial community-based research effort, which combined one of FSU College of Medicine's strengths, its distributed medical education model, with University of Florida’s expertise in clinical and translational research. With the addition of the University of Miami and multiple healthcare institutions across the state, Health IMPACTS for Florida became the OneFlorida Clinical Research Consortium, uniting researchers, clinicians, patients, and other stakeholders to address the Florida’s biggest health challenges. In 2022, with FSU and UF’s strong commitment to community engagement, NCRT expanded services to include support for community-engaged research, becoming the NCRT-CE. In 2025, FSU Health Research Connections was launched, and NCRT-CE was sunset. However, the Community Engagement Core remains a cornerstone of the FSU CTSA Program.
Our Values
Serving diverse, rural and underserved populations
Ethical and responsible conduct of research
Relationship-driven, respectful research culture
Vision and innovation
Intellectual pursuit
Collaborative partnerships
Excellence and quality improvement
Meet the Team
Sharry Anne Solis, MPH
Community Research Coordinator
Kristina Feliciano, MSW
Community Research Coordinator
Mama Yata Young
Community Research Coordinator
Publications
Florida-California Cancer Health Equity Center (CaRE2) Community Scientist Research Advocacy Program
B. Hensel, N. Askins, E. Ibarra, C. Aristizabal, I. Guzman, R. Barahona, B. Hazelton-Glenn, J. Lee, Z. Zhang, F. Odedina, D. J. Wilkie, M. C. Stern, L. Baezconde-Garbanati, S. Suther, F. Webb. (2023) Journal of Cancer Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-023-02351-3
Association Between Insufficient Sleep, Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidality Among Florida High School Students
Justine Gunderson, Katherine McDaniel and Alexis DiBlanda. Prev Chronic Dis 2023;20:220403. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd20.220403