Project Grant H4932731

This Project Grant award of $1,626,470 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) will fund a 5-year, mixed-methods longitudinal study conducted by the University of Illinois. The study aims to: 1) examine how contextual factors, such as structural racism and discrimination, impact access to therapies and outcomes for Black and Hispanic preschool children with developmental delays and disabilities, and...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research), supports the development and testing of an equity-focused communication intervention for clinicians. The $793,477 award to Duke University aims to co-develop a clinician coaching program that teaches communication skills grounded in racial equity, language justice, and structural humility. The goal is to improve...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $180,791 Project Grant under the Healthy Start Initiative (CFDA 93.926) to the Michigan Public Health Institute (MPHI), a non-profit organization, on May 1, 2025. The grant supports MPHI's efforts to improve maternal and infant health outcomes and reduce racial/ethnic disparities in infant mortality and adverse perinatal outcomes in high-risk communities. Over the 5-year grant...

This Project Grant award from the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110) provides $800,000 over a 3-year period from September 2024 to September 2027. The funding will support a partnership between the National Healthy Start Association (NHSA) and the National Parent Leadership Institute (NPLI) to expand policy change resources and build policy change capacity in six local Healthy Start communities. Key...

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), supports research to examine racial/ethnic disparities in access to high-level neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and associated neonatal outcomes. The $736,279 grant, awarded to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) on April 15, 2025, will run through January 31, 2030. The study aims to:...

This $216,230 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) will support the development and testing of a video-feedback intervention to promote racial-ethnic socialization competency in Latino/a/x families. The intervention, titled "Video-Feedback Intervention to Promote Racial-Ethnic Socialization Competency (VIP-RACE)," aims to help Latino/a/x parents effectively communicate...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), supports a $465,000 research study under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program. The study aims to (1) demonstrate the feasibility of integrating a new community health worker (CHW) referral protocol into existing healthcare resources, (2) compare well-child visit attendance rates between families...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program (CFDA 93.137) to the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA) in Nashville, Tennessee. The "Healthy People Nashville" project aims to increase access to food, quality healthcare, and address social determinants of health in historically marginalized communities. The 4-year grant...

This federal Project Grant award of $241,500 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) will support research by Duke University to investigate racial/ethnic disparities in hypertensive disorders during pregnancy in the United States. The project aims to develop and validate a Markov state-transition decision model to evaluate the impact of various policy interventions on reducing these disparities....

The federal Project Grant award of $600,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health (CFDA 93.137 - Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program) supports the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) in addressing health inequities and improving health outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities in its service area. The project aims to increase access to high-quality healthcare and achieve Healthy People 2030 goals for healthcare access and quality, as...