This federal Project Grant award of $248,999 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) supports the "SMARTSTART: A DIGITALLY-ENHANCED DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT INTERVENTION FOR LOW-INCOME PEOPLE NEWLY DIAGNOSED WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES" research project at Arizona State University (ASU). The project aims to develop and evaluate a digitally-enhanced diabetes self-management program to improve health...
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 $813,000 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, aims to develop a non-invasive diagnostic imaging and monitoring technology to mitigate the impacts of diabetic retinopathy (DR). The technology leverages spatially modulated light to detect early-stage changes in retinal oxygenation, enabling the identification of DR before structural eye damage...
The federal Project Grant award K99MD019726 in the amount of $332,109.00 was provided by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program, to Arizona State University doing business as Orspa. The goal of this project is to develop and test a digitally-enhanced diabetes self-management intervention called SMARTSTART, targeted at low-income individuals newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes....
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $892,112 Project Grant to Pavmed Inc. under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program. The grant, awarded on September 22, 2024, aims to optimize and validate the Veris Health Cancer Care Platform for medically underserved cancer patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy. The research will focus on enhancing the platform for...
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program, awarded Minnesota Healthsolutions Corporation (MHS) a $311,579 Project Grant to develop an "Inclusive Online Interactive Platform for Parents in Rural Settings to Promote Healthy Habits." The goal of this 12-month project is to create a digital platform that will prompt and support positive behavior change for rural families. This is...
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 federal Project Grant award of $1,287,596.00 was provided by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program. The project aims to develop and deploy machine learning models to identify Medicaid members who use emergency departments for social or non-urgent needs, and an engagement support system to connect these members with...
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.307), awarded a $295,923 Project Grant to Equiti Foods, LLC. The grant aims to implement a "Food is Medicine" program that will provide medically tailored, culturally appropriate frozen meals to underserved communities in an effort to reduce health disparities related to chronic diseases. Specific objectives of the project...
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) awarded a $3,794,331 Project Grant under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program to the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York, NY. The 5-year grant, titled "RSMI HEALS", will conduct a randomized controlled trial to compare the clinical efficacy and implementation potential of three technology-enabled medical interpretation modalities - remote simultaneous...