# DP24-004, PRC Core:  Promoting Social Connectedness in the Most Diverse Square Mile in America

> **NIH ALLCDC U48** · GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY · 2023 · $1,000,000

## Abstract

Abstract
The Georgia State University (GSU) Prevention Research Center (PRC) will focus on the issue
of social connectedness within the highly diverse and underserved community of Clarkston
Georgia, a complex community with a high concentration of refugees, immigrants, and migrants
(RIM), as well as African Americans. As described in a new advisory report from the Surgeon
General, a lack of social connectedness, and social isolation and loneliness (SIL) are grave
public threats to both physical and mental health, and even more so in underserved
communities with vulnerable populations. The PRC will establish an administrative core within
the center component that will maintain an infrastructure to support the overall Prevention
Research Center, including the establishment of a community advisory board, a training
component in prevention research, and a communications function. The major purpose of the
center component is to support the core research project. The core research project will focus
on a key implementation question in the area of social connectedness: how to adapt and
deliver evidence-based interventions to address social isolation and loneliness for adults and
older adults in a highly diverse population within a disadvantaged community? The project will
adapt an 8-session evidence-based intervention (EBI) for social isolation and loneliness that
utilizes mindfulness and cognitive-behavioral change techniques, and we will embed that
intervention into ongoing community-based activities conducted by partners. The partners will
deliver the EBI to 240 participants, and implementation and participant outcomes will be
assessed. The team will develop translation and dissemination materials to be shared with
partners locally, nationally, and via the network of CDC-funded PRCs.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10875047
- **Project number:** 1U48DP006803-01
- **Recipient organization:** GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** MICHAEL PAUL ERIKSEN
- **Activity code:** U48 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** ALLCDC
- **Fiscal year:** 2023
- **Award amount:** $1,000,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2024-09-30 → 2029-09-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10875047

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10875047, DP24-004, PRC Core:  Promoting Social Connectedness in the Most Diverse Square Mile in America (1U48DP006803-01). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-25 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/10875047. Licensed CC0.

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