Building Trustworthiness in Health Care and Research: Disrupting Traditional Practices Through Authentic Community Engagement—Project ENTRUST
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2026-01
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<jats:sec> <jats:title>Introduction:</jats:title> <jats:p>Project ENTRUST is a mixed-method, community-collaborative, and community-grounded initiative at Duke Health aimed at co-creating a model for equity-driven engagement and trust-building in health care and research.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title>Methods:</jats:title> <jats:p>Community members, Duke Health, and university leaders developed the 7-phase ENTRUST Model—a structured roadmap for trust-building through collaborative survey development, town halls, and recommendations for institutional change.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title>Results:</jats:title> <jats:p>The ENTRUST process engaged 6167 survey respondents, over 300 community members and organizations across 6 town halls, and 3 focus groups.</jats:p> </jats:sec> <jats:sec> <jats:title>Conclusions:</jats:title> <jats:p>The ENTRUST Model offers a replicable framework for health care systems and research institutions seeking to build trust within communities.</jats:p> </jats:sec>
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Barrett, Nadine J, Salimah El-Amin, Jessica Sperling, Annie Tsui, Cindy Canty Dumas, Perusi B Muhigaba, Stella Quenstedt, Sally Taylor, et al. (2026). Building Trustworthiness in Health Care and Research: Disrupting Traditional Practices Through Authentic Community Engagement—Project ENTRUST. Health Equity, 10. 10.1177/24731242261420931 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/34323.
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Salimah El-Amin
I am a public health practitioner, researcher, and educator. My work focuses on the social determinants of health, structural factors shaping health outcomes, and persistent health inequities. I currently serve as the Assistant Director of the Center for Research, Community Engagement, Social Action and Trust (CREST). Previously, I worked at Duke University from 2015–2018 at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity as a Faculty Affiliate and Senior Researcher.
Dinushika Mohottige
Dinushika Mohottige is Assistant Professor in Institute of Health Equity Research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Barbara T. Murphy Division of Nephrology. She received a B.A. in Public Policy and a Health Policy Certificate from Duke University in 2006, where she was a Robertson Scholar. She then earned an MPH in Health Behavior/Health Education from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and a medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, followed by Internal Medicine/Chief Residency and Nephrology training at Duke University. She engages in patient and community-centered, inequity-focused research around the impact of socio-structural factors/racialized medicine on kidney health and kidney transplantation.
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