| ACE | Active Community Engagement |
| ALA | American Lung Association |
| AME Zion | African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church |
| ATSDR | The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry |
| CAB | Community Advisory Board |
| CAC | Community Advisory Committee |
| CBO | Community-Based Organization |
| CBPR | Community-Based Participatory Research |
| CDC | Center for Disease Control and Prevention |
| CEC | Community Engagement Core |
| CEnR | Community-Engaged Research |
| CRC | Clinical Research Coordinator |
| CRF | Core Research Facilities Services Used in Clinical Trials |
| CTA | Clinical Trials Agreement |
| CTSA | Clinical and Translational Science Awards |
| CTSI | Clinical and Translational Science Institute |
| DCCR | Duke Center for Community Research |
| DCH | Division of Community Health |
| DCRI | Duke Clinical Research Institute |
| DOCR | Duke Office of Clinical Research |
| MOA | Memorandum of Agreement |
| MOU | Memorandum of Understanding |
| NCCU | North Carolina Central University |
| NCI | National Cancer Institute |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health |
| PBR | Practice-Based Research |
| PBRN | Practice-Based Research Network |
| PI | Principal Investigator |
| PRC | Prevention Research Center |
| RCT | Randomized Controlled Trial |
| RFA | Request for Application |
| RFP | Request for Proposal |
| SOM | Duke - School of Medicine |