Project Grant R43MD009559

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) will fund the development and testing of an "Equity Focused Communication Intervention for Family-Centered Rounds" at Duke University. The $469,803 award aims to address racial inequities in communication quality between clinicians and caregivers of Black and Latino(a/x) children during hospital stays. The project will co-develop...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) provides $325,000 to Kairos Research LLC, a small disadvantaged business in Dayton, OH, to develop a mobile application to help Latino adolescents manage type 1 diabetes. The key products and services to be delivered under this 1-year award include optimizing the app design through end user research and internal testing (Aim 1), as well as...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) provides $2,082,128 in funding to the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical) to develop, implement, and evaluate a Motivational Interviewing (MI) training program for primary care providers (PCPs) to address COVID-19 and influenza vaccine hesitancy among adult patients. The key products and services to be delivered...

This $465,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) aims to compare technological and relational approaches to supporting families after a missed well-child visit. The study will: Demonstrate the feasibility of integrating a new referral protocol for community health worker outreach following missed well-child visits into existing resources. Compare well-child visit...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health, under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health Grant Program (CFDA 93.137), provides $600,000 to the Cambridge Public Health Commission, doing business as the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA). The funding supports a 4-year initiative to address health inequities and improve health outcomes among racial and ethnic minority populations in CHA's service area. The key products...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) will support a 2-year, $868,458 research study at the University of Texas at Austin. The study aims to characterize the communication practices and conceptualizations of effective communication among Black caregivers of children identified as "late talkers." This mixed-methods study will gather qualitative data through video-cued...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) provides $248,999 to Arizona State University (ASU) to implement a digitally-enhanced diabetes self-management intervention for low-income individuals newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The "SMARTSTART" program aims to improve health behaviors and outcomes for this underserved population, who experience disproportionately poor...

The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) awarded a $2,065,719 Project Grant under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program to New York University (NYU) to conduct a community-based behavioral intervention study. The study aims to increase COVID-19 and influenza vaccination rates among African American/Black and Latino individuals by testing the effects of various intervention components such as nurse-led shared decision making,...

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 $3,860,088 to KDH Research and Communication, Inc. to expand and evaluate the "Intervention to Help Orient Men to Excel (IN-HOME)" program. The IN-HOME program is a culturally competent, online training course that prepares community health workers (CHWs) to conduct outreach and support for Black and Latino...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health's Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $600,000 to the University of Colorado-Denver to investigate racial/ethnic disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and subclinical abnormalities among young adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D). The key objectives are to: 1) quantify disparities in CVD risk factor trajectories and subclinical cardiac/vascular outcomes by race/ethnicity in T1D; 2) understand...