Project Grant R01MD021606
- The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities awarded Rush River Research Corporation $4,145,268 on September 18, 2025, under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to develop a modern, culturally sensitive family health history software tool responsive to African American cultural perspectives. Rush River Research Corporation will develop a production prototype of the Family Health History tool and assess its usability through studies of...
- The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities awarded Malama Health, Inc. $1.764 million on September 17, 2025, under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to develop a specialized risk-stratification platform and tailored diabetes prevention program for postpartum women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus. The platform will address gaps in current remote monitoring technologies by incorporating contextual glucose information...
- The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, part of the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health, awarded the University of Illinois $5,959,150 on September 14, 2025, for a randomized controlled trial examining the effectiveness of a food-is-medicine intervention to promote healthy eating and blood pressure control in hypertensive Black women with obesity. The FIM+DASH trial will deliver cooking classes, nutrition and hypertension education, and...
- The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, part of the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health, awarded Howard University $424,875 on September 19, 2025, under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to investigate the pathobiology of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) in diabetic African Americans. The project, which runs through June 30, 2027, will characterize transcriptomic...
- The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities awarded The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center $1.347 million on July 18, 2026, under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to test the efficacy of a family-level hypertension self-management intervention for African American primary care patients. The project, titled "WALK TOGETHER Trial," will conduct a randomized controlled study of a novel dyadic intervention delivered...
- The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities awarded The Nemours Foundation $188,890 on August 16, 2026, under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to adapt and pilot-test a peer mentorship intervention promoting continuous glucose monitoring use among Latino youth with Type 1 Diabetes from families with limited English proficiency. The award funds development and testing of "Type 1 Together," an intervention co-developed with...
- The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases awarded University of Missouri at Kansas City $1,694,136 on March 10, 2026, under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847) to conduct a cluster randomized controlled trial examining culturally tailored diabetes prevention interventions for underserved African Americans. The recipient will enroll 408 pre-diabetic African American participants recruited from churches in high-risk...
- The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities awarded Texas A&M Agrilife Research $772,567 on June 21, 2026, under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to conduct a multi-site, church-engaged randomized trial reducing cardiovascular disease and cancer risk in lower-income communities across the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The project, "StrongPeople Together," engages ten church sites through three coordinated aims. Aim 1...
- The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities awarded Boston Medical Center Corporation $500,214 on September 25, 2025, under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to design and pilot clinic-based health information technology tools aimed at improving WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children) retention among low-income families with young children. The project employs human-centered design methods to...
- The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities awarded $208,555 to Trustees of Tufts College (doing business as Tufts University School of Medicine) on September 16, 2025, under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307). The award funds investigation of geographic, sociodemographic, and patient-specific differences in plant-based food consumption among U.S. youth, with the goal of identifying strategies to promote better nutrition and reduce...
The National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, a component of the National Institutes of Health under the Department of Health and Human Services, awarded $702,086 to the Morehouse School of Medicine on August 16, 2026, under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307). The award funds research adapting the Diabetes Prevention Program to integrate family engagement and family health history assessment as mechanisms to improve adherence and glycemic outcomes in populations at elevated type 2 diabetes risk. The project includes three specific aims: developing a six-session family component using the CDC My Family Health Portrait tool and personalized risk communication, tested formatively with forty index participants and family members across rural and urban sites; conducting a two-arm randomized controlled trial with two hundred index participants with prediabetes and their family members, stratified by geography and block randomized to receive either adapted DPP with family components or standard DPP, measuring weight loss percentage, HbA1c reduction, and session attendance at six and twelve months; and evaluating family outcomes and mechanisms of change through actor-partner interaction analysis. Work is performed in Atlanta, Georgia. The project period runs through January 31, 2031.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $702.1k | 8/18/26 |