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) provides $279,071 to Wake Forest University Health Sciences (WFUHS) to develop a predoctoral training program titled "Academic Learning Health System Preventions for Promoting Health Equity (ALHS-PRE)". The program aims to train the next generation of "clinician prevention scientists" with skills in health equity and...
The University of Southern California (USC) was awarded a $221,904 Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310). The grant will fund the "ADVANCE Cancer Health Disparities Research (CHDR) Training Program" at USC's Department of Population and Public Health Sciences. The program aims to enhance the knowledge, skills, and capacity of pre-doctoral students in minority health, cancer health...
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 $137,895 to The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to investigate the neighborhood-level drivers of persistently poor cardiovascular health outcomes and disparities in the southeastern region of the United States. The research aims to examine the geospatial variation in neighborhood-level...
The University of Michigan was awarded a $1,498,658 Cooperative Agreement from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) titled "Partners in Research: Building Capacity for Community-Driven Research to Advance Health Equity." The project aims to leverage the University's institutional and national networks, as well as its training and technical assistance expertise, to support community-led interventions addressing structural...
The U.S. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $401,248 Project Grant (CFDA 93.859 - Biomedical Research and Research Training) to the University of California, Berkeley to develop new models and methods for understanding how demographic and social processes influence infectious disease risk. The project aims to create a generalized framework for jointly modeling human behavioral changes and disease dynamics, incorporating data on human mobility, aggregation, and other...
This $2,252,730 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307) will fund research to measure the long-term health outcomes, health equity, and economic impacts of four key interventions to address food and nutrition insecurity in the U.S. The research team at the University of Chicago will use their NIH-funded microsimulation model to analyze the effects of interventions such as expanding the USDA Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program...
This $3,000,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Traineeship (NRT) Program award to the University of California, Irvine provides interdisciplinary graduate training in the use of technology to advance cardiovascular health, healthcare, and healthcare access and equity. Over 5 years, the project will serve 30-40 students from the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Health, Society, and Behavior, and Psychological Sciences, providing 15 doctoral students with 2 years of funding....
This $1,500,000 federal Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institutes of Health (CFDA 93.310 - Trans-NIH Research Support) will fund the establishment of the SHHARE Community Project: The Shared Hub for Health Action Research and Equity at New York University School of Medicine. The project aims to provide support and resources to community organizations and coalitions to strengthen their capacity, leadership, and success in addressing structural drivers of health inequities. Key...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) received a $500,120 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310). The award, effective August 29, 2024 through March 21, 2025, will support the "ADVANCE SGM Health for Research Diversity" program. This initiative aims to develop predoctoral trainees with exceptional research and community engagement skills to advance sexual and gender...
This $132,410 Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) will provide protected time for Dr. Cheryl Anderson, a mid-career clinical investigator, to recruit and mentor a diverse group of trainees in clinical cardiovascular epidemiology and health equity research. The award will support two new areas of research: 1) integrating global policy and strategy into multilevel interventions to improve...
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $336,744 Project Grant under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to support the "Training Health Equity Scholars in Innovation, Prevention, and Social Impact (UCB-THRIVES) Fellowship Program". The program aims to train the next generation of public health professionals, especially those from historically marginalized backgrounds, to develop and evaluate multi-level, preventive interventions that address health equity in partnership with marginalized communities. The project will provide innovative classroom training and immersive research experiences to 35 pre-doctoral students across the School of Public Health graduate groups, focusing on themes of community engagement, anti-racism, and social impact. The 1-year award period runs from September 1, 2024, to August 31, 2025.