This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program, aims to digitalize and validate a family-based behavioral intervention for addressing obesity among African American adolescents. The $599,146 award to Machine And Human Interaction LLC (Mahi Research Group) will be used to develop and evaluate a prototype of the "Digital Wellness Nurse - FIT...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program), aims to measure the long-term health, equity, and economic impacts of four promising interventions to address food and nutrition insecurity in the United States. The $2,252,730 award to the University of Chicago will utilize a validated microsimulation model to analyze the effects of interventions such as expanding the...
This $295,923 Project Grant was awarded 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 funding will support Equiti Foods, LLC, a woman-owned small business, in implementing a "Food is Medicine" program to increase access to healthy, affordable, and culturally-appropriate meals for underserved communities. Key objectives...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,046,346 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program aims to address food insecurity and unhealthy dietary behaviors among college students, particularly low-income and racial/ethnic minority populations. Through a partnership with five universities, including three minority-serving institutions (MSIs), the funded project will conduct research using...
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program, awarded a $385,816 Project Grant to See Yourself Health LLC, a woman-owned small business, to develop and test the usability of "MIRAME SALUD", a culturally and linguistically tailored digital health platform to deliver immersive, interactive diabetes self-management training (DSMT) programs for Latino Americans using smartphones....
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.212 - Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program), provides $175,000 to Graded Gaming, LLC to develop and test a virtual reality (VR) simulation module for advanced foods and nutrition education. The project aims to create an AI-powered, immersive learning platform that teaches healthy nutritional choices and culinary skills to combat diet-related chronic...
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 provide $994,032 to New York University (NYU) from August 21, 2024 to February 28, 2029. The project aims to examine the relationships among experiences of poverty, epigenetic aging, the gut microbiome, and mental and metabolic health in predominantly low-income, Black and Hispanic women with and...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will examine the impact of state-level policies restricting adolescents' access to social media on their exposure to unhealthy food and beverage advertising. The $720,350 award to New York University School of Medicine will enroll adolescents aged 13-17 in Texas and Louisiana, where such policies are being...
The federal Project Grant award R01MD018721 for $1,996,548, awarded on September 15, 2024 by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will fund the "Cardiovascular Risk Reduction for Adults with Food Insecurity using Structured Incentives (CVD-FIT)" research project. The study aims to test a multi-component intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk among 200 African American adults with...
The federal Project Grant award R43MD019583, with $590,500 in funding, was provided by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program. The award to Juxtopia, LLC, a minority-owned and Black American-owned technology firm in Baltimore, Maryland, is for the development of an AI-powered Virtual Reality (VR) training and evaluation system called "CAMMRAD Police." This system is...
This federal Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $542,808.00, was provided by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program.
The award will support research by New York University School of Medicine to examine the effects of virtual reality-based food marketing on biological hunger signals and purchase intention among young Black adults. The study aims to determine how exposure to virtual reality food marketing influences purchase intention, the role of biological signal activation, and the interactions with food/nutritional insecurity in this population. The findings have the potential to inform novel behavioral interventions and regulatory efforts to address digital food marketing strategies that contribute to nutritional disparities and nutrition-related disease risk.