This Project Grant award of $3,198,378 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) will support a 4-year research project at Drexel University to develop, validate, and apply measures of state-level structural stigmatization and discrimination (SSD) for Latino/a/e ("Latine") and sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations. The research aims to build consensus on the key domains...
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 $5,986,206 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to conduct a multidimensional investigation of social support for transgender and non-binary (TNB) individuals and its impacts on their health and well-being. The key goals of this 5-year project are to: 1) use community-engaged approaches to deeply...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), will fund a quasi-experimental clinical trial study to implement and evaluate a multi-level "Youth Empowerment & Safety (YES)" intervention for public system-involved sexual and gender minority youth (SGMY) at risk of suicide. The $1,103,117 award, effective December 5, 2024 through November 30, 2027, will support the development and...
This $1,955,745 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program will fund a 4-year study to measure and map trajectories of risk and resilience for suicidal thoughts and behaviors among sexual and gender minority (SGM) preteens. The study aims to: 1) develop consensus on best practices for safely and effectively sampling, recruiting, and retaining high-risk SGM preteens into research; 2) create and pretest an...
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 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $126,042 to Duke University to conduct a mixed methods study on intersectional discrimination and sexual health among young Black men who have sex with men (YBMSM). The overarching goals are to: Identify latent subgroups of YBMSM with different patterns of intersectional discrimination experiences. Determine the relationship between the...
This federal Project Grant award of $2,483,351 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 will fund a 5-year research project at George Washington University, in collaboration with sub-awardees Yale University, UC Davis, UNC-Chapel Hill, and RTI International, to identify and assess policy and community-level interventions that counteract the effects of...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $1,248,897 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to the University of California, Santa Barbara to design a gender-affirming training intervention for lay health workers (LHWs) to promote mental health care access for racially diverse transgender youth. The two-year project (9/1/2024 - 8/31/2026) will use human-centered design methods to (1) co-design the LHW training intervention with community partners, and (2)...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to Temple University to develop and pilot test a trauma-informed intervention called RISE (Resilience-based Intervention for Stress Reduction and HIV-related Efficacy). The $721,833 award aims to address the high rates of trauma, depression, and antiretroviral treatment non-adherence among Black sexual minority men living with HIV, particularly those recently...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research provides $1,399,812 to develop and validate a comprehensive, multi-dimensional scale to measure sexual well-being. The 5-year project aims to identify all potential dimensions of sexual well-being, generate a pool of questionnaire items, conduct large-scale validation studies, and assess the scale's...
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 $1,253,545 to Temple University to develop and validate two new instruments: an SGM Barriers to Help-Seeking Scale and an SGM GBV Healing Scale. These instruments aim to measure the help-seeking barriers and recovery needs of sexual and gender minority (SGM) survivors of gender-based violence (GBV). The project will use a sequential mixed-methods approach, including ethnographic interviews, a community advisory board, cognitive interviews, and a national online survey, to rigorously develop and evaluate these new measurement tools. By strengthening the ability to assess help-seeking barriers and recovery progress in SGM GBV survivors, this project is expected to enhance future interventions, expand research in this area, and inform policy changes to improve health outcomes for these populations.