Project Grant ASTWH190081

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $1,539,118.00 to Brown University to conduct a cluster randomized trial of the "Moms on the Move" intervention. The goal is to evaluate the efficacy of this program for increasing moderate to vigorous physical activity among racial and ethnic minority mothers, particularly Hispanic and Black women, who often face barriers to...

This Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research Program (CFDA 93.837) will fund a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation trial to test the impact of federally qualified health center (FQHC) referrals to a remotely delivered physical activity intervention for Latina adolescents. The $691,299 award to the University of California, San Diego will support the development of an EMR-integrated version of the Chicas...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program, will evaluate a novel youth violence prevention program. The $3,927,249 award to the University of Chicago will fund the "CHAMP-V + LAW" project, which combines community health worker (CHW) and legal advocacy interventions to address upstream structural determinants that contribute to community violence...

This $2,996,886 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) will fund a 12-month family-centered behavioral intervention called "Athletes for Life" (AFL) plus a 1-year active sustainability phase. The intervention will be implemented in 8 community recreation centers, 4 each in San Diego, California and Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. The goal is to increase total...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will fund research to evaluate physical activity and body composition among South Asian American youth, as well as examine the relationships between South Asian parents' and daughters' cultural factors and the daughters' physical activity. The $315,062 award to Northwestern University will be used to...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) is funding the "Advancing Health Equity Through Park Afterschool Programs" research project at Florida International University (FIU). The project aims to improve mental health and social-emotional outcomes for youth in underserved communities by enhancing the capacity of park afterschool program (ASP) providers to deliver evidence-based...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) provides $1,250,604 to the University of Texas at Austin to conduct research aimed at reducing the burden of physical inactivity in Mexico. The key objectives are to: 1) adapt evidence-based "place-activation" interventions to promote physical activity in marginalized urban areas of Mexico, 2) test the effectiveness of...

This Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837), provides $171,565 to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) to study the relationship between low energy availability (LEA), nutritional deficiencies, and hypertension risk in Black Division I collegiate athletes. The key objectives are to: 1) Determine the strength of the association between LEA and increased...

This Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), under the Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Research program (CFDA 93.394), provides $140,828 to develop and pilot test community-driven implementation strategies to increase the uptake of built environment approaches that promote physical activity. The project aims to systematically select and tailor implementation strategies in collaboration with Extension professionals, then pilot test the tailored strategies through an...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to reduce nutrition insecurity and malnutrition among adolescents in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The $657,757 grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, will support a project led by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey to employ a combination of participatory systems thinking,...