Welcome to the

NIH Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL)

Collaborating with Communities to Improve Health

The NIH Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) is a research network designed to work with communities and community-based organizations to identify promising engagement and outreach practices that communicate trustworthy, science-based information to communities experiencing health disparities.

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The Science Behind Our Approach

Community-engaged research brings people in local communities into the research process. People and communities become equal partners in how the study is designed, conducted, analyzed, and shared with the world.

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