The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) awarded a $2,252,730 Project Grant under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to the University of Chicago. The grant will fund a project to model the long-term health, equity, and economic impacts of national strategies to address food and nutrition insecurity. Key interventions to be evaluated include expanding the USDA Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program, expanding SNAP...
This 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), provides $229,825 to the University of California, Berkeley to examine the neighborhood-level drivers of persistently poor cardiovascular health outcomes and disparities in the southeastern United States. The project will focus on measures of social vulnerability, disinvestment, racial and economic isolation,...
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) awarded a $994,032 Project Grant (CFDA 93.307) to New York University (NYU) to conduct research aimed at reducing disparities in mental and metabolic health among predominantly low-income Black and Hispanic women, with and without HIV. The 5-year grant, awarded on August 21, 2024, will focus on examining the relationships between experiences of poverty, epigenetic aging, the gut microbiome, and mental and metabolic health...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), under CFDA Program 93.837 - Cardiovascular Diseases Research, provides $708,678 to Wake Forest University Health Sciences to conduct a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART). The study aims to determine the most effective interventions to reduce food insecurity and improve adherence to hypertension treatment among patients with uncontrolled hypertension and food insecurity. The...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) provides $295,923 to Equiti Foods, LLC to implement a "Food is Medicine" (FIM) program that will bring medically tailored meals to underserved groups at low or no cost. The key objectives are to: 1) Form advisory committees to guide the FIM program, 2) Expand Equiti Foods' capacity to produce culturally and medically...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under CFDA Program 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research will support a research study titled "Theoretically Informed Behavioral Intervention to Enhance QOL and Prevent HIV-Related Comorbidities in Ethnic and Racial Sexual Minority Men". The $5,274,535 award to Yale University will fund a study to develop and evaluate a virtual prevention education intervention to...
This Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 - Cardiovascular Diseases Research) provides $748,647 to William Marsh Rice University to conduct a longitudinal study exploring food insecurity as a social determinant of cardiovascular health and psychological well-being among Latino immigrants. The study will collect mixed-methods data from 450 Latino immigrants to characterize the relationships between food insecurity, nutrition, inflammation,...
This 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 the "COMMUNITY-DERIVED MULTILEVEL-MULTICOMPONENT NUTRITION INTERVENTION TO REDUCE FOOD ACCESS DISPARITIES - FRESH-EATS" project. The total award amount is $576,459 and the project period runs from September 15, 2024 to October 31, 2026. The project aims to determine the feasibility of...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program will support research to examine the effects of virtual reality-based food marketing on biological hunger signals and purchase intention among young adults, particularly Black young adults. The $542,808 award to New York University will fund a 5-year study with the following key objectives: 1) Determine the influence of...
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) awarded a $764,143 Project Grant (CFDA 93.307) titled "FAMILY COMIDA (CONSUMO DE OPCIONES MAS IDEALES DE ALIMENTOS) (EATING MORE IDEAL FOOD OPTIONS)" to the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. The grant aims to develop and evaluate an optimized, culturally tailored family-centered intervention to address both adult and childhood obesity among Mexican-heritage families. The project utilizes the...
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) awarded a $3,318,608 Project Grant under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY) to conduct the "Cardiovascular Risk Reduction for Adults with Food Insecurity using Structured Incentives (CVD-FIT)" study. The 5-year project aims to test a multi-component intervention that includes monthly income supplementation, weekly incentives for healthy food purchases, and CVD risk reduction education/skills training for 200 African American adults at risk for cardiovascular disease and experiencing food insecurity. The study's primary objectives are to evaluate the intervention's impact on 10-year CVD risk reduction, quality of life improvements, and cost-effectiveness. Exploratory analyses will also examine potential mediators and moderators of the intervention effect.