This $385,816 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 "MIRAME SALUD", a culturally and linguistically tailored digital health platform to deliver immersive, interactive diabetes self-management training programs for Latino Americans. The award recipient, See Yourself Health LLC, a woman-owned small business, will leverage their...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under CFDA 93.847 - Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research, aims to develop a culturally adapted digital health application for older Hispanic patients with type 2 diabetes. The $376,208 award will fund the refinement and modernization of a previously developed health intervention prototype into a user-friendly, secure digital app. The app will provide...
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 $867,858 to Northwest Prevention Science Inc., a small woman-owned business, to culturally adapt the Family Check-Up Online (FCU Online) digital health intervention for Hispanic families. The key goals of this 1-year project are to: 1) conduct interviews with parents and community leaders to inform the cultural adaptation of the...
This Project Grant award in the amount of $275,766 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA #93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) supports the development of a proof-of-concept for HealthYU-Latinx, a technology-based solution designed to improve health literacy for Latinx secondary school students and their families. The funding will enable the creation of a web/mobile-based, self-paced curriculum featuring animated videos, live...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) totaling $956,214 will fund Ceresti Health, Inc. to develop and validate a Spanish-language version of their Caregiver-Enabled Care Program (CECP) for Hispanic/Latino families caring for loved ones with dementia. The CECP is a digital population health intervention that provides personalized education, coaching, and remote monitoring to unpaid/informal caregivers via a dedicated tablet. This project aims...
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 $296,519 to Mhealth Systems, Inc. to develop and test the feasibility and acceptability of the MIREA-AC mobile health intervention. The goal is to address health disparities by improving access to preventive services for problematic alcohol and marijuana use among mandated minority college students...
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 $122,796 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) will enable Dr. Petruzzi of American University to develop a culturally-adapted, multi-level intervention to improve perinatal mental health outcomes among Latina women in Texas. The key objectives are to: 1) conduct a community assessment to identify mental health and social needs, 2) combine and culturally/linguistically adapt...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under CFDA Program 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants provides $782,069 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to conduct a randomized controlled trial of a choice-driven, interactive, storytelling web-based app called "Catalina: Confronting My Emotions/Enfrentando Mis Emociones." The goal is to investigate the effectiveness of this app in catalyzing mental health treatment...