This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $1,364,940 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to conduct a cluster randomized controlled trial investigating methods to measure and reduce HIV stigma in healthcare settings. The key products and services to be delivered include: Baseline standardized patient visits to healthcare clinics to assess enacted HIV, sexual, and intersectional...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) supports a study to examine racial disparities in predictive modeling among survivors of critical illness. The $181,864 award, with a project period from September 2024 to June 2026, will fund the University of Pittsburgh's efforts to: 1) identify and characterize racial disparities in mortality, 90-day re-admissions, and hospital-free...
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) awarded a $950,452 Project Grant under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program to The Johns Hopkins University. The project aims to characterize the effects of the new OpenNotes policy, which grants patients easy access to their medical records, on clinical documentation practices and potential healthcare disparities. Leveraging natural language processing tools, the researchers will...
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $892,112 Project Grant to Pavmed Inc. under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program. The grant, awarded on September 22, 2024, aims to optimize and validate the Veris Health Cancer Care Platform for medically underserved cancer patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy. The research will focus on enhancing the platform for...
This federal Project Grant award, with a total of $793,477 funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), is for a research project titled "Equity Focused Communication Intervention for Family-Centered Rounds." The project aims to develop and test the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a communication intervention that teaches clinicians skills grounded in principles of racial equity, language justice, and structural humility....
This federal Project Grant award of $1,287,596.00 was provided by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program. The project aims to develop and deploy machine learning models to identify Medicaid members who use emergency departments for social or non-urgent needs, and an engagement support system to connect these members with...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) provides $425,856 to Mayo Clinic to investigate the use of synthetic medical images to improve the fairness of deep learning models for pathology detection in chest radiographs. The key objectives are: 1) Establish a baseline for pathology detection performance, 2) Augment the real radiograph dataset with synthetic images representing...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) provides $1,601,966 to the University of Arkansas to study the impact of adverse provider conditions on provider bias and health disparities. The project will leverage theory from psychology and psychoneuroimmunology to examine how workplace demands, personal health concerns, and inflammation can increase provider bias against patients...
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) awarded a $3,794,331 Project Grant under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program to the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York, NY. The 5-year grant, titled "RSMI HEALS", will conduct a randomized controlled trial to compare the clinical efficacy and implementation potential of three technology-enabled medical interpretation modalities - remote simultaneous...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307), will fund a $147,656 research study at the University of Southern California (USC) to investigate the relationship between emerging work arrangements and health disparities. The 3-year project aims to: 1) identify latent classes of emerging work (EW) aligned with contemporary work arrangements, 2)...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research), will support a research project to investigate the presence of stigmatizing language in cancer care electronic health records (EHRs) and its impact on clinical decision-making.
The $107,432 award, with a performance period from August 2024 to August 2028, will enable the University of Minnesota to: 1) Determine the categories of stigmatizing language used by oncology clinicians in EHR documentation; 2) Compare the use of stigmatizing language by patient and clinician characteristics; and 3) Assess whether stigmatizing language is associated with disparities in cancer-related pain medication prescriptions. The project aims to characterize and model stigmatizing language in cancer care EHRs, informing future interventions to reduce stigma, health disparities, and negative health outcomes.