This $482,805.95 four-year Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health (CFDA 93.137) program will fund community-led support services and connections to health services to address food insecurity and diabetes diagnoses among Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino populations in 13 zip codes in the Dallas, Texas area. The Jewish Family Service of Dallas, Inc. (JFS) will station...
This $170,100 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847) will fund the development and piloting of "FUERTE: Federally Qualified Health Centers Engaging Hispanic Men at Risk of Diabetes." The goal is to create a multi-component implementation strategy to increase referrals and engagement of Hispanic men in the Diabetes Prevention Program...
This $533,333.34 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health (CFDA 93.137) program will support Healthvisions Midwest's "Community Level Innovations for Improving Health Outcomes" (CLIIHO) project. The project aims to address the disproportionate burden of the diabetes epidemic on African American and Hispanic populations in Allen and Lake Counties, Indiana through...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $303,930 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to St. Mary's University of San Antonio, Texas. The grant funds a 3-year randomized controlled trial (RCT) to study the impact of enhanced diabetes care on workforce participation and economic outcomes among uninsured residents. The project partners with community stakeholders to provide additional diabetes education, supplies, and care management to...
This Project Grant award, ID R01MD019155, was provided by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307). The $1,250,604 award seeks to reduce the burden of physical inactivity in Mexico through an urban equity approach, by increasing the uptake of place-activation evidence-based interventions (EBIs) in marginalized urban peripheries. The study will be conducted by the University of Texas at...
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health (CFDA 93.137) program to the Cambridge Public Health Commission, doing business as the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA). This 4-year grant aims to address health inequities and improve health outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities in CHA's service area by increasing access to high-quality healthcare. Specifically, the project will...
This Project Grant award of $731,071 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (CFDA 93.847 - Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research) supports research to address barriers to equitable, guideline-recommended diabetes care in the United States. The research, led by The Johns Hopkins University, will leverage large real-world datasets and survey physicians to: 1) describe disparities in diabetes care and outcomes across individual,...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health awarded a $561,318.26 Project Grant under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health (CFDA 93.137) program to Icna Relief USA Programs, a non-profit organization and community development corporation. This 4-year grant, effective September 1, 2024, aims to address social determinants of health and reduce diabetes-related health disparities within underserved and minority communities in South Carolina, with a focus...
This $644,524 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) program supports a collaborative research project between Howard University and North Carolina A&T State University. The project aims to identify the dynamic structure of the progression to type 2 diabetes (T2D) using mathematical models. Key activities include: Constructing a theoretical threshold to distinguish between diabetes and non-diabetes states, validated using...
This federal Project Grant award of $709,563 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (CFDA 93.847 - Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research) aims to leverage metabolic pathways and gene expression data to improve understanding of severe obesity in Hispanic/Latino (HL) populations, a critically understudied group. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year grant include: Analyzing whole blood RNA sequencing data from over...
This Project Grant award of $1,200,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health (CFDA 93.137) program aims to implement community-level innovations to improve diabetes health outcomes among the Hispanic/Latino population in Bexar County, Texas.
The "Pathways Project" will expand a sustainable collaborative network, including organizations like The Health Collaborative and Community Information Now, to address social determinants of health related to economic stability and healthcare access. Key activities include linking at least 700 people at-risk for diabetes annually to evidence-based prevention programs, increasing bilingual care transition coaches, and expanding a network of care coordination agencies focused on diabetes prevention and social services. The project expects to improve access to diabetes prevention, increase the number of community health workers, and successfully address social determinants to progress towards reducing new diabetes diagnoses in the target population.