College of Education and Human Sciences
Mississippi Center for Clinical and Translational Research - Community Engagement and Outreach Core
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The (MCCTR) is an ambitious enterprise designed to promote the success of research focusing on all major diseases that impact Mississippians. As one of MCCTR's five partner institutions, USM houses the Community Engagement and Outreach (CEO) Core. Their mission is to develop a powerful and sustainable research enterprise that will have an important public health impact by reducing obesity and cardiometabolic-related diseases in Mississippi.
MCCTR proudly offers an annual one-week residential Community Engagement and Outreach
Summer Institute that trains selected junior faculty members from all major Mississippi
universities in the principles and practice of CEO, and offers opportunities for them
to compete for funding for clinical, translational and population-related pilot research
projects. Thus, in addition to training junior investigators from partner institutions
in independent CEO, the CEO Institute helps to identify promising CEnR investigators
for support through the MCCTR Pilot Projects Program. 
The MCCTR Pilot Projects Program supports clinical, translational and population-based
research projects on all major diseases that impact Mississippians and that can become
the basis for competitive extramural funding applications. Thus, major criterion for
review of these applications is competitiveness for extramural funding if pilot grant
funding is awarded.
The program is designed to promote multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary collaboration,
and to ensure equitable and productive distribution of research support across the
MCCTR partner institutions.
Kristie Knox
Assistant Director for Community Engagement and Outreach
Office: Joseph Greene Hall
Peter Paprzycki
Research Analyst/Statistician
Office: Owings-McQuagge Hall