Cooperative Agreement U58DP001040

This $413,660 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 Aging Research) will support a study to evaluate the impact of Illinois' Health Benefits for Immigrant Seniors (HBIA) and Health Benefits for Immigrant Adults (HBIS) programs on healthcare utilization and outcomes among aging Latino immigrants. The study aims to: 1) examine changes in emergency department visits and hospitalizations among Latino older adults, as well as uncompensated hospital care, following...

This $346,458 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to the University of Toronto will support a multidimensional and longitudinal study on immigrant integration and its impact on the physical and cognitive health of older immigrant adults in the U.S. and Canada. The key aims are to: 1) investigate how social, economic, and residential dimensions of integration affect trajectories of physical functioning and cognitive impairment among...

The Tufts University School of Medicine will provide a Community Health Worker Training Program titled "Community Health Workers Engaging in Integrated Care" (COHERE) through this $4,999,888 Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Professionals. The three-year grant period began on September 15, 2022. The program aims to increase diversity among community health workers and improve healthcare...

Federal Grant Award Summary Massachusetts General Hospital's Research Management Division received a $508,236 Project Grant award from the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307), effective July 31, 2025 through November 30, 2029. The project, titled "Variability in Emergency Demographic Data and Clinical Outcomes," addresses critical data quality issues in emergency department...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $163,979 to the Trustees of Dartmouth College to evaluate the long-term health impacts of housing instability and racial/ethnic disparities among Black, Latino, and white households. The study will leverage longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to: 1) estimate the effects of housing instability on late-life health outcomes, 2) determine if racial/ethnic disparities in...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Rush River Research Corp, a woman-owned small business, received a $2.1 million Project Grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) awarded September 18, 2025. The grant supports the development of a modernized, culturally sensitive family medical history software tool designed specifically for African-American populations through May 31,...

Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Texas at Austin received a $477,000 Project Grant award effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2027, from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307). The award supports development and deployment of an Interactive Outbreak Simulator platform designed to model disease transmission dynamics during outbreaks while accounting for population...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) awarded a $3.71 million Project Grant under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, with an award date of April 29, 2025, and completion date of November 30, 2029. The grant funds the Family Comida (Consumo de Opciones Más Ideales de Alimentos) initiative, a family-centered intervention designed to...

This Project Grant from the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, part of the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health, provides $769,755 to develop an unbiased machine learning tool for the prediction of acute coronary syndrome. The tool aims to minimize bias in predictions between patient demographic groups, as measured by equal opportunity difference and the Zemel statistic, to ensure machine learning algorithms do not exacerbate...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities awarded a $4.64 million Project Grant to the University of California, San Francisco on July 12, 2025, under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to identify effective school-based health center (SBHC) models and practices nationally. This four-year mixed-methods study, extending through November 2028, will collect comprehensive national data on SBHC staffing models...