This federal Project Grant award of $165,012 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) supports research to develop evidence-based recommendations for modifying North Carolina's existing post-release supervision (PRS) program. The goal is to reduce suicide and overdose mortality among formerly incarcerated individuals, while also minimizing racial disparities in PRS assignment length and post-release...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) will support research to identify and address racial disparities in predictive modeling for survivors of critical illness. The $181,864 award, effective September 30, 2024 through June 30, 2026, will enable the University of Pittsburgh to integrate expertise in healthcare disparities, statistical modeling, and causal inference to...
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 $741,475 to The Johns Hopkins University to conduct research on maternal and infant mortality among women incarcerated during the perinatal period. The key objectives are to: Create databases in three states (Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington) linking prison admissions/release data with birth/fetal death certificate data to...
This $1,601,966 Project Grant, awarded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program, supports research to identify factors that increase bias among healthcare providers, which can contribute to healthcare disparities for racial and ethnic minority patients. The research will leverage psychological theories to examine how adverse provider conditions, such as workplace demands, personal...
This federal Project Grant award of $2,332,500.00, provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), aims to develop a novel model of a prison learning health system to address disparities in HIV treatment, HIV prevention, and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment among incarcerated individuals. The key objectives of this project, which will be embedded in Washington's state prisons, are to: 1) build the foundation for a...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $243,000 Project Grant under the Aging Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.866) to Mayo Clinic to conduct research on assessing the needs and advancing dignity-conserving care for hospitalized, incarcerated older adults. The 5-year grant project will leverage a unique dataset to define trends in factors like age, delirium, and advance directive completion for this population. It will also use qualitative methods to characterize the...
This $2,898,008 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) aims to train and develop the next generation of health disparities researchers to perform innovative research on minority health and health inequities in Buffalo, New York. The award will be used to establish a Center of Excellence embedded within the University at Buffalo Community Health Equity Research Institute. The Center...
This $107,432 Project Grant was awarded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to investigate the presence and impact of stigmatizing language in cancer care electronic health records (EHRs). The project aims to: 1) determine the types of stigmatizing language used by oncology clinicians in EHR documentation, 2) compare stigmatizing language use across...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) is supporting a $1,511,818 research initiative by Duke University to develop a validated measure of practice-level equity and institutional racism in primary care settings. The goals are to: 1) identify practice-level structures, processes, policies, and norms that promote equity or create disparities in health outcomes between...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice (CFDA 16.566 - National Institute of Justice W.E.B. DuBois Fellowship Program) provides $599,976.00 to the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical) to build a scalable method for achieving racial and ethnic equity in the prison classification system. Over four years starting January 1, 2024, the project will: 1) examine racial and ethnic disparities in the Massachusetts Department of Correction's objective prison...
This $577,500 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) aims to validate methods for identifying incarcerated patients in electronic medical records and claims databases, and evaluate the timeliness of surgical care and outcomes for incarcerated patients in New York State.
The two-year study, titled "Unlocking Equity: Validating Methodologies and Evaluating Surgical Care for Incarcerated Individuals," will be conducted by the University of Rochester. The research seeks to deepen the understanding of healthcare for incarcerated individuals and address disparities in mortality and surgical care access for this population, which disproportionately comprises minority and lower socioeconomic groups. By validating identification methods and evaluating surgical outcomes, the project aims to provide a methodological framework to inform future research and policies to improve healthcare practices for this underserved community.