The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities awarded Sam Houston State University $218,160 under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) on September 1, 2026. The award funds research to optimize mobile health clinic utilization and resource allocation in rural southwest Oklahoma. The project pursues two primary aims: identifying barriers to mobile health clinic uptake among rural residents, healthcare providers, and clinic staff through...
The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities awarded The Rand Corporation $584,668 on September 1, 2026, under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to conduct research on public health insurance and mortality among people with disabilities. The research will characterize all-cause and cause-specific mortality patterns among people with disabilities, examining variation by self-reported disability, SSA-defined primary impairment, race...
The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, part of the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health, awarded Ochin, Inc. a Project Grant of $1,460,161 on August 15, 2026, under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307). Ochin will create an integrated dataset by harmonizing data from national, state, and local sources to investigate the longitudinal relationship between housing transitions and health outcomes for...
Federal Project Grant Award Summary Emory University received a $1.19 million Project Grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307), effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028. The award supports the development and application of advanced statistical methodologies to improve small area mortality estimation for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations....
The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities awarded Brown University $755,110 on September 1, 2026, under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to conduct a mixed-methods study examining the implications of Medicare Advantage enrollment growth on mortality and clinical outcomes among older adults in rural America. The research investigates how Medicare Advantage provider networks and reimbursement practices affect access to acute hospital...
The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities awarded the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center $715,543 on September 1, 2026, under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to develop and test the feasibility of a mobile health intervention for chronic pain management tailored specifically to Native American communities. The project will develop the first mHealth chronic pain intervention designed for Native Americans, integrating...
The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, part of the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health, awarded The Johns Hopkins University $311,000 under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) on August 17, 2026. The award funds a 20-year retrospective analysis of opioid-involved overdose deaths (OODS) with focus on racial and ethnic health disparities. The research examines OODS trends from 2005 to 2024 across...
The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities awarded the National Bureau of Economic Research Inc. $2,159,469 on September 3, 2026, under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to conduct a Project Grant investigating the geographic distribution of dialysis facility expansion and its effects on health outcomes among patients with end-stage kidney disease. The research will analyze whether the 70 percent increase in dialysis centers over the...
The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities awarded the University of Rochester $2,057,213 on September 14, 2025 under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to conduct an observational study examining how daily social engagement influences suicide risk in adults aged 40 and older with elevated suicide risk. The study enrolls 200 adults with past-year suicide ideation or lifetime suicide attempt history. Participants complete baseline...
The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded the University of California, Davis $1.186 million on July 21, 2026, under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to investigate the spillover effect of Medicaid expansion on children's nutrition security. The project runs through May 31, 2031, with performance at UC Davis in Davis, California. The award addresses how Medicaid coverage expansion affects food security and diet-related disease outcomes in...
The University of Oklahoma received a $485,952 project grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities to study the effect of Medicaid expansion on mortality disparities and poverty. The grant aims to identify the relationship between Medicaid expansion and rural-urban ethnoracial disparities, and estimate the mediating role of poverty alleviation in this relationship. Key products and services to be delivered include analysis of the impact of Medicaid expansion on intersectional mortality disparities using time-varying difference-in-difference design with marginal prediction models. The grant will also improve the cost-of-living adjustment for the Supplemental Poverty Measure and estimate the measure at the county level to analyze the mediating role of poverty reduction. A sub-award of $50,000 was provided to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania for a co-investigator to assist with execution of the specific aims of the proposed five-year study.