This Project Grant award of $1,145,592 from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), under the Nursing Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.361), supports a clinical-community partnership to evaluate the health impacts of a multi-component food insecurity intervention. The study aims to: 1) Quantify the effects of the intervention on clinical outcomes among Medicaid enrollees with chronic conditions receiving care at a Federally Qualified Health Center; 2) Evaluate the...
This federal Project Grant award of $779,148 from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) under the Nursing Research program (CFDA 93.361) supports the "Hermanas de Corazon: A Community Health Worker Initiative for Improving Heart Health in Migrant Latina Farmworker Women" project. The objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of a Community Health Worker/Promotora-led peer support and community resource navigation intervention to decrease stress, social isolation, and...
This $2,252,730 project grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program) will support research to model the health equity and economic impacts of national strategies to address food and nutrition insecurity. The primary goals are to: 1) measure the long-term population health effects of interventions like expanding the USDA nutrition incentive program and SNAP benefits, 2) estimate impacts on...
The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) awarded a $1,617,690 Project Grant under CFDA 93.361 Nursing Research to the University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc. (KUMCRI) with a project period from September 2024 to May 2029. The grant will fund a multi-center randomized controlled trial to evaluate a novel healthcare-community partnership, called NOURISH, that directly delivers medically-tailored food to transplant and cellular therapy patients experiencing food...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,046,346 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program aims to address food insecurity and unhealthy dietary behaviors among college students, particularly low-income and racial/ethnic minority populations. Through a partnership with five universities, including three minority-serving institutions (MSIs), the funded project will conduct research using...
This Project Grant award totaling $649,081 was provided by the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Program (CFDA 10.310). The award will fund research to: Develop store-level measures of the healthfulness of food offerings that account for prices, using validated questionnaires, store-level scanner data, and product nutrition information. Identify market boundaries by store format...
The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) awarded a $849,608 Project Grant (CFDA 93.361 Nursing Research) to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to determine the feasibility of providing medically tailored meals to pediatric populations at risk for health disparities due to food-related social drivers of health. The project aims to assess the acceptability and feasibility of delivering healthy, frozen meals tailored to the tastes of children undergoing chemotherapy, in...
This Project Grant award from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program provides $120,000.00 to the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) to conduct research on food insecurity vulnerability. The key products and services to be delivered include: Creating a food insecurity vulnerability index at the census level using Census data and grocery store surveys to map food insecurity vulnerability. Surveying...
The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) awarded a $1,516,493 Project Grant (CFDA 93.361 - Nursing Research) to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) on September 24, 2024. The "Oregon Medicaid Policy, Social Services, and Health (RESOLVE)" study will evaluate the impacts of new Oregon Medicaid policies intended to increase community-clinical linkages (CCLs) for addressing social determinants of health. The study will create a comprehensive...
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) awarded a $576,459 Project Grant under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to the University of South Florida. The "COMMUNITY-DERIVED MULTILEVEL-MULTICOMPONENT NUTRITION INTERVENTION TO REDUCE FOOD ACCESS DISPARITIES -FRESH-EATS" project aims to determine the feasibility of implementing a multilevel, multicomponent nutrition intervention to improve dietary behaviors and reduce...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) under CFDA Program 93.361 Nursing Research provides $1,440,984 to the University of Washington to conduct the "NUESTRO VALOR: INCREASING HEALTHIER FOOD ACCESS FOR RURAL LATINO COMMUNITIES THROUGH A FOOD RETAIL INTERVENTION" project. The goal is to adapt and evaluate the culturally-tailored "El Valor" retail food store (tiendas) intervention to promote fruit and vegetable consumption among Latino shoppers in rural communities. The project will assess the intervention's impact on access to healthy foods at the tienda level and its effectiveness on Latino customers' fruit and vegetable intake. A sub-award of an unspecified amount was issued to the Northwest Communities' Education Center to support this research.