Project Grant H4927825

This $465,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) aims to compare technological and relational approaches to support families after a missed well-child visit. The study will: Demonstrate the feasibility of integrating a new referral protocol into existing resources for community health worker (CHW) outreach following missed well-child visits. Compare well-child visit...

The Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) has awarded a $800,000 Project Grant under the Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110) to the National Healthy Start Association, Inc. The funding will support a partnership between the National Healthy Start Association and the National Parent Leadership Institute to expand policy change resources and build policy change capacity in six local Healthy Start communities....

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) to Duke University totals $241,500 and aims to develop and validate a Markov state-transition model to evaluate policy solutions for reducing racial/ethnic disparities in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDPs) in the United States. The project will pursue two specific aims: (1) developing and validating the Markov model of...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program (CFDA 93.137) to the Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement (ARCHI). The grant, with an award date of September 1, 2024 and ultimate completion date of August 31, 2028, aims to address health disparities and social determinants of health in the metro Atlanta area. The key products and services to...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) is supporting a $1,511,818 research initiative by Duke University to develop a validated measure of practice-level equity and institutional racism in primary care settings. The goals are to: 1) identify practice-level structures, processes, policies, and norms that promote equity or create disparities in health outcomes between...

This 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) supports research to determine how maternal and infant transfer policies affect racial/ethnic disparities in where very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants deliver and neonatal mortality and morbidity outcomes. The $736,279 award to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute will be used to apply a...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program (CFDA 93.137) provides $584,692 to Illuminate Colorado Inc. from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2028. The primary objectives are to: 1) Increase access and utilization of the Family Connects model in Colorado by using family ambassadors that reflect underrepresented populations; 2) Reduce infant and maternal deaths by...

The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $216,230 Project Grant (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) to The Pennsylvania State University to develop and test a video-feedback intervention called VIP-RACE. The goal is to promote racial-ethnic socialization competency in Latino/a/x families to address the impact of racial-ethnic discrimination on Latino/a/x youth's mental health...

This Project Grant award in the amount of $512,244 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307), aims to improve the long-term health of Black preterm infants by addressing social drivers of health. The key products and services to be delivered through this award include: 1) Determining associations between neighborhood-level social determinants of health and long-term health...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $176,255 to the University of Nevada, Reno to conduct research on the social contextual factors contributing to racial inequities in maternal and infant health outcomes. The study aims to uncover how adolescent social developmental contexts shape biological and social stress pathways that impact maternal health and birth...