This federal Project Grant award of $296,519 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) aims to develop and test the feasibility and acceptability of a mobile health (mHealth) intervention called MIREA-AC. The MIREA-AC intervention is designed to reduce health disparities by improving equitable access to substance use prevention and treatment for minority college students,...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $801,832, was provided by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307). The award aims to reduce disparities and the burden of lung cancer among African American smokers by supporting a multi-level integrated intervention that combines lung cancer screening using low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) and smoking cessation efforts. The key goals...
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 federal Project Grant award of $831,405 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 a study on ecological momentary assessment of daily minority stressors and cannabis and tobacco co-use among sexual minority young adults (SMYAS). The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, the awardee, will conduct this 28-month research project to characterize different...
This $836,895 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will fund a 5-year research study to develop and evaluate communication strategies to promote HIV vaccine and prevention uptake among young Black women in the Southern U.S. The project, led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, will use community-based participatory methods to co-create theory-based messaging, graphics, and videos to...
This Project Grant award of $1,352,914 from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), under the Nursing Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.361), supports research to identify multilevel facilitators that help Black sexual minority men living with HIV (BSMM LWH) overcome racism and stigma to achieve durable viral suppression. The goal is to conduct qualitative interviews and ethnographic observations with "positive deviants" - BSMM LWH who have successfully managed their...
This $1,389,542 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program) aims to evaluate population-based strategies for improving smoking cessation among rural populations. The key products and services to be delivered include: A randomized controlled trial (n=544) to determine the efficacy of providing a free nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) starter kit, along with digital NRT education,...
This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion under the Centers for Research and Demonstration for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (CFDA 93.135) program, is supporting the implementation of a culturally appropriate digital health intervention to reduce tobacco-related cancer disparities among Hispanic/Latinx communities. The total award is $600,000 and will be completed by September 29, 2029. A sub-award of undisclosed...
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), is supporting the "ACTIVATEXTO: ADVANCING SMOKING CESSATION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AMONG LATINOS" project. The primary awardee, the University of Rochester, is developing and evaluating a culturally-tailored smoking cessation text messaging intervention for Latino populations. A recently completed...
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 $2,065,719 to New York University (NYU) and the Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation to conduct a community-based behavioral intervention study. The goal is to increase COVID-19 and influenza vaccination rates among African American/Black and Latino (AABL) individuals who are not up-to-date on these...
This $2,826,976 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) will fund a national test of a culturally tailored mHealth intervention, called MASP+, that aims to improve smoking cessation, mental health, and HIV disease management for Black adults with HIV. The University of Houston System is the prime awardee, with sub-awards to the University of Oklahoma and Baylor College of Medicine to provide research expertise and clinical oversight. The intervention will be evaluated through a randomized controlled trial with 300 participants, assessing its impact relative to a standard smoking cessation app and an assessment-only control. Key objectives include reviewing and refining the MASP+ materials, conducting the national trial, and disseminating the research findings. If proven effective, MASP+ could provide a scalable, low-burden solution to address multiple health disparities experienced by this population.