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Frontiers
February 2026
A multi-year study protocol manuscript titled “Transcreating Approaches to Addressing Disproportionate Impacts on Health in Colorado Communities: The Colorado Community Engagement Alliance Multi-Year Study” was recently published in Frontiers, featuring multiple contributors from the Department of Family Medicine.
The Colorado Community Engagement Alliance or (CO-CEAL) was funded by the National Institutes of Health(NIH) and began with efforts to promote COVID-19 awareness and prevention—expanding to address chronic conditions and other health outcomes in five different Colorado communities. Using common methods based on the Transcreation Framework, CO-CEAL aims to strengthen the translation of medical knowledge and scientific evidence into sustainable, culturally relevant practices and messages that resonate with communities.
From the article:
“The Colorado Community Engagement Alliance (formerly “Colorado Community Engagement Alliance against COVID-19”), or CO-CEAL, began in 2021 with funding as a CEAL Regional Team from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, CO-CEAL aimed to maximize the reach of COVID-19 vaccines, testing, and treatments to Colorado’s most vulnerable populations. Over the past 3 years, CO-CEAL broadened its focus to address social determinants of health and related inequities disproportionately experienced by certain ethnic and racial communities; papers from this work have been published. This change aligned with the shift in NIH’s focus and the health topics that were included in the study’s Common Survey (e.g., chronic disease, mental health, access to care, etc.).”
DFM contributors associated with this article are: Meredith Warman, MPH; Jerica Berge, PhD, MPH, LMFT; Douglas Fernald, MA; Linda Zittleman, MPH/MSPH; and Donald Nease, MD.
Read more of this study in Frontiers.
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