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The Community Translational Research Institute (CTRI) was founded in 2014 with the mission to translate prevention science into cost-effective population health practice and policy at the community level. In so doing it seeks to transform public health practice into sustained multi-sectoral community based action with a focus on measurable outcomes relative to health promotion and disease prevention, improving the health and well being of the general population while diminishing population disparities. CTRI is chartered as a California not-for-profit corporation with a self-perpetuating Board of Directors drawn from the leadership of prominent public and private academic and public health institutions in California’s Inland Empire region including the Claremont Graduate University School of Community and Global Health, the County of Riverside and its Department of Public Health and Health Care System, the Inland Empire Health Partners (primary insurance provided for Riverside and San Bernardino Counties’ Medicaid recipients), the University of California Riverside and its Schools of Medicine and School of Policy. These and other institutions including the Cities of Jurupa Valley, Perris, and Riverside, Kaiser Permanente Riverside, the University of La Verne, Loma Linda University, the Western Riverside Council of Governments, the City of Jurupa Valley, and the Riverside Community Health Foundation collaborate in CTRI’s planning and program development. C. Anderson Johnson, PhD, and Jay Orr serve as the founding CEO and Board Chair, respectively.

Diabetes Free Riverside (DeFeR) is a signature project of CTRI. Initiated in the City of Jurupa Valley in 2014, it addresses the high levels of obesity and Type 2 diabetes in the region through community based comprehensive interventions for obesity reduction and diabetes prevention especially in the high risk Hispanic/Latino population. Phase 1 consists of community based population screenings for prediabetes and chronic disease risk factors. Phase 2 focuses on obesity reduction among persons identified as prediabetic in community screenings. Phase 3 broadens the scope of prevention efforts to multi-sectoral community-wide planning and intervention. Phase 4 expands beyond the initially targeted communities to other high-risk communities in the two-county Inland Empire region.

Plans for 2015-2016 include development of an Accountable Community for Health including a Wellness Trust to support and sustain a coordinated system of evidence-based community health promotion and disease programs and evaluation of their impact on the health and well-being of the populations and communities served.

Initial support for CTRI and its program of translational research came from a $1.8 million commitment from the County of Riverside and additional direct and in-kind support from the Inland Empire Health Plan and the Claremont Graduate University.