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Welcome to the Mayo Clinic’s Community Outreach and Engagement Research Services (COERS) blog. COERS partners with communities and works in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to develop and execute community outreach, engagement initiatives, and health equity research to address the needs of the communities we serve.
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Community Outreach & Engagement Research Services
The Mayo Clinic Community Outreach and Engagement Research Services (COERS) bring together the coordination of health equity and community engagement in research resources across all Mayo Clinic locations.
COERS is co-led by Folakemi Odedina, Ph.D., and Mark Wieland, M.D.
Dr. Odedina is an experienced health equity researcher with 30 years of health disparities and community-engaged research (CEnR) expertise with a specific research focus on prostate cancer disparities in Black men throughout the United States and internationally.
Dr. Wieland is an internal medicine physician and the Chair of the Division of Community Internal Medicine. He is an experienced health disparities and community-engaged researcher with 20 years of expertise collaborating with immigrant and refugee populations.
As well as engaging communities through a variety of community outreach and community engagement in research initiatives, COERS assists investigators and research staff by providing resources and services to facilitate and foster partnership and engagement between study teams and the communities we serve, to address disease burden in communities through health equity and community-engaged research studies.
COERS is supported by staff located throughout all three Mayo Clinic locations:
- Arizona: The Arizona State University Health Futures Center
- Florida: The Mayo Clinic Community Health Collaborative in downtown Jacksonville
- Minnesota: The Bio Business Building at the Rochester campus.
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