The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Minority Health Disparities Initiative (MHDI) administers the Health Equity REU, which is an interdisciplinary program aimed at conducting research into  understanding and reducing health disparities and in increasing and diversifying health researchers from minoritized and underserved populations. This project takes place under support of a pending  Summer REU grant from the National Science Foundation for research community- engaged methods for conducting health equity research. As part of that program, participating students will receive training in multiple community-engaged research approaches, including community-based participatory research (CBPR), social network and other decentralized community methods, community-engaged research in clinical settings, and community-engaged approaches with children.