Jackson Heart Study Community Outreach Center

About the Community Outreach Center

The Jackson Heart Study Community Outreach Center is the result of the successful operation of the Community Partnership/Outreach Office which operated under the auspices of the JHS Coordinating Center at JSU from 2000-2013. CORC, formerly the Community Partnership Outreach Office, was instrumental in the development and implementation of novel strategies to successfully recruit the 5,301 JHS cohort. Partnerships were developed with over 100 churches, community-based organizations, governmental agencies, private non-profit organizations, other institutions of higher learning and individual partners. The Jackson Heart Study Community Outreach Center has major responsibility for the retention of approximately78% of the living cohort, has trained/certified more than 90 community health advisors to provide health education services in the tri-county area of Hinds, Madison and Rankin counties since the study began in 2000 and has expanded research opportunities for community participation, specifically in hypertension and chronic disease self-management.