This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) provides $2,065,719 to New York University 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 persons, populations that have experienced disparities in vaccination uptake. The study will test the impact of four intervention...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will fund the development of a two-way SMS platform to prevent and treat wasting among HIV-infected and HIV-exposed uninfected children. The $595,552 award, effective September 1, 2024 through July 31, 2027, will be used to create a novel intervention combining a maternally administered malnutrition monitoring system (MAMMS)...
This $461,662 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will fund a study to adapt and evaluate the Text4Father mHealth intervention to directly reach first-time expectant fathers using social media. The goal is to improve infant and family health outcomes by increasing first-time fathers' infant care self-efficacy and engagement during the prenatal...
This $696,852 federal Project Grant award from the National Cancer Institute (CFDA 93.393 - Cancer Cause and Prevention Research) supports research to optimize a mobile messaging intervention for promoting colorectal cancer screening by fecal immunochemical tests (FIT) at community health centers (CHCs). The research, led by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will use a two-phase process to first focus on maximizing patient engagement through optimized text messaging, and then...
This $599,146 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) aims to digitalize and validate a family-based behavioral intervention called "FIT Families" for improving health outcomes among African American adolescents with obesity. The project, titled "Digitalization of a Multicomponent Family-Based Behavioral Intervention (Digital Wellness Nurse - FIT Families) for...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) totaling $692,141 will fund research to address employment-related barriers to prenatal care for minoritized pregnant patients. The primary awardee, Duke University, will develop and pilot test the PROMOTE (Provider Remote Obstetric-related Employment Education) intervention to educate obstetric clinicians on federal employment...
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 $494,251 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to evaluate the impact of a clinically-integrated medical-financial partnership (MFP) intervention on perinatal and postnatal parent mental health, birth outcomes, and child development. The MFP intervention will provide financial coaching services integrated within...
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 $244,696 to The Children's Hospital Corporation (doing business as Boston Children's Hospital) to gain understanding on how to best implement social risk screening and referral programs across different types of pediatric hospitals in the United States. The project aims to: 1) survey and interview clinical leaders from a...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837), provides $708,678 to Wake Forest University Health Sciences to conduct a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) study. The study aims to determine the most effective interventions to reduce food insecurity and improve adherence to hypertension treatments in patients with uncontrolled hypertension. The interventions being...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program, provides $867,858 to Northwest Prevention Science Inc. to culturally adapt the Family Check-Up Online (FCU Online) intervention for Hispanic families. The goals of this Phase 1 study are to culturally adapt the FCU Online modules and online portal, assess the feasibility, acceptability, and commercial...
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 $465,000 to Wake Forest University Health Sciences to conduct a randomized controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of technological (text message) and relational (community health worker) approaches for supporting families after a missed well-child visit.
The study aims to demonstrate the feasibility of integrating a new referral protocol for community health worker outreach following missed well-child visits, compare attendance rates across the intervention groups and a control group, and evaluate the costs and cost-effectiveness of the low-touch (text message) and high-touch (community health worker) approaches compared to usual care. The project will target a demographically diverse, urban population in English and Spanish over a 2-year period from September 2024 to June 2026. Findings from this exploratory study are expected to inform the design of a larger-scale trial to further test tailored strategies for reducing disparities in pediatric preventive care.