Project Grant R03CA121801

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 $702,188 to the University of Chicago to adapt and pilot test a culturally tailored physical activity intervention for urban Black girls with asthma and their mothers. The goal is to engage this underserved population in a family-based lifestyle physical activity program to improve asthma control and health outcomes....

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) aims to evaluate the efficacy of the Linking Exercise for Advancing Daily Stress (LEADS) intervention in increasing moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) among overweight African American adolescents. The $633,249 award, effective August 10, 2024 through February 28, 2029, will be used by the University of South Carolina to...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $769,559 to Brown University to conduct a study titled "Leveraging Youth Sports Practices to Increase Physical Activity Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Mothers." The study aims to test the efficacy of the "Moms on the Move" intervention, which is designed to increase moderate to vigorous physical activity among Hispanic and Black mothers by...

This $4,690,856 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program) supports a 2-phase, mixed methods study to identify community-level barriers and facilitators for active transport and leisure physical activity in urban, low-income, predominantly minority middle school communities. The study aims to equitably engage multi-sectoral community actors to co-create contextually-responsive...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $315,062 to Northwestern University to evaluate physical activity and body composition among South Asian American youth, and to examine the relationships between South Asian parents' and daughters' cultural factors and the daughters' physical activity behaviors. The award will fund secondary data analyses using the National...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Assistance Programs for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control (CFDA 93.945) provides $1,998,484.00 in funding to the University of South Carolina (USC) to conduct community-based participatory research on implementing an evidence-based social support intervention to increase physical activity among older African American adults. The project period runs from September 30, 2024 to September 29,...

This federal Project Grant award, with ID R21HL175536, was provided by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837). The $117,750 award is supporting a study to investigate the prospective associations between neighborhood environment features and physical activity levels as well as weight status across different age groups, including children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. The key activities include leveraging...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $331,270 to the University of Houston System to conduct a study examining the relationship between place, stress, and cognitive status among middle age and older Black men. The study aims to evaluate a conceptual model that investigates how residential environments and stress levels may impact cognitive function and impairment in this population. The research will leverage data from the...

This $785,943 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research), supports research to measure the impact of a $50 million community investment, the Sankofa Wellness Village, on cardiovascular health and social determinants of health in the predominantly Black, high-poverty West Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago. The research approach involves measuring changes in social needs, psychological well-being, and cardiovascular health behaviors...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), under the Aging Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.866), will provide $287,416 over 2 years to the University of South Carolina to investigate the association between lifestyle physical activity patterns and cognitive function in older adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The study will leverage mobile technology to collect daily data on physical activity and cognitive performance from 84...