This Project Grant award of $597,350.00 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), aims to clarify the overlapping effects of structural racism, natural disaster exposure, and behavioral health outcomes. The key objectives are: Evaluate temporal and geographic correlations between structural racism, natural disaster susceptibility, and rates of behavioral health-related emergency department visits, inpatient...
This $107,002 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) will support a cross-sectional, quantitative study exploring the impact of racism-related experiences (major discriminatory events, racial microaggressions, internalized racism, and historical trauma) on PTSD symptoms and polysubstance use among Black young adults. The study aims to measure these relationships and also psychometrically test the...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $2,091,715 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to conduct research on the impact of structural racism on neurocognitive mechanisms of substance use risk in minority youth. The key objectives of this award are to: 1) characterize how neighborhood-level structural racism, measured by racial differences in income,...
This $1,108,070 federal Project Grant award 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 supports research by Digital Organizing, Power-Building And Engagement Labs (Dope Labs), a non-profit organization, to develop new community-driven measures and metrics for examining the impact of structural racism on Black longevity in the United States. The research will...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,317,459 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279) will fund research to understand how structural racism influences access to substance use and HIV care among Black and Latinx sexual minority men (BLSMM) in Los Angeles County. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: 1) investigating how historical racist practices have created unequal spatial patterns...
This federal Project Grant award of $165,012.00, awarded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research), supports research to develop evidence-based recommendations for modifying post-release supervision (PRS) policies in North Carolina to reduce suicide and overdose mortality among formerly incarcerated individuals, while also minimizing racial disparities. The key objectives are to: (1) determine predictors of...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), aims to study the impact of discrimination on anthropometric outcomes among children and adolescents. The $1,163,163 award, with a period of performance from September 20, 2024 to May 31, 2025, is funded under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307). The primary objectives are to: 1) assess the...
This federal Project Grant award of $960,120, provided by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Program (CFDA 93.307), will support the development and pilot testing of a culturally tailored intervention for Latinx adolescents from mixed-status families. The primary goals are to: 1) explore barriers and facilitators to mental health discussions between youth and caregivers, and use of mental health...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under CFDA 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs is for a 2-year study titled "SILOS: Structural Inequities Across Layers of Social-Context as Drivers of HIV and Substance Use." The $2,332,704 award will fund innovative observational research across 5 U.S. cities to better understand how social contexts and inequities drive disparities in HIV and substance use among racial, ethnic, and sexual/gender...
This federal Project Grant award of $558,048 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) will fund a 36-month longitudinal study on the impacts of explicit, internalized, and vicarious racial discrimination on the health trajectories of Filipino, Korean, and Indian American young adults aged 18-19. The study will use a combination of bi-annual surveys and ecological momentary assessments to identify how different types...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,901,976.00 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) will support a community-driven modeling approach to identify policy and community-level interventions to address the impact of structural racism and discrimination on adolescent substance use and mental health.
The project will leverage data from the Context Study, a large 7-wave panel study of public school students in North Carolina, to develop a theoretical model and agent-based simulation to assess the long-term impact of interventions targeting structural racism and discrimination. Key activities include convening community stakeholder workshops, using agent-based modeling to evaluate intervention scenarios, and conducting implementation research on the most promising interventions. The project involves sub-awards to researchers at Yale University, UC Davis, UNC-Chapel Hill, and RTI International to contribute expertise across modeling, community engagement, and implementation science.