Infusing principles of Community-Partnered Participatory Research, the primary goals of the Rutgers-NYU Center for Asian Health Promotion and Equity Community Engagement Core (CEC) are to:

1) organize and nurture academic-community partnerships focusing on Asian Adults;

2) facilitate the recruitment and retention of diverse Asian adults into intervention research on cardiometabolic and mental health research;

3) and build a reciprocal and sustainable community-partnered infrastructure in order to bridge knowledge gaps and disseminate evidence-based best practices at community, state and national levels to inform practice and policy.