COE Grants

Program Description

The program helps:

• Support innovative multi- and trans-disciplinary research to promote minority health and reduce health disparities,
• Strengthen exemplary research training and education activities to support the development of well-trained researchers from minority and populations experiencing health disparities,
• Increase the number of individuals from minority and other populations experiencing health disparities participating in research activities, and
• Provide support for engaging minority and other communities experiencing health disparities in effective and sustainable activities aimed at improving the health of their communities.

Each Center of Excellence has a specific unifying focus that will have a direct and demonstrable impact on addressing minority health and health disparities in that topic area. The thematic focus of each COE revolves around at least one of the NIH-designated populations experiencing health disparities or a subgroup within a populations experiencing health disparities, and may include specific disease areas that disproportionately affect populations experiencing health disparities and contribute substantially to health outcomes, prevention topics that cut across health conditions and populations and more.

NIH Guide No: RFA-MD-17-005

Table of Funded Grants

Institution	Project Title / Principal Investigator	NIMHD Program Officer
Arizona State University-Tempe Campus	Leveraging Bio-Cultural Mechanisms to Maximize the Impact of Multi-Level Preventable Disease Interventions with Southwest Populations Contact PI: Marsiglia, Flavio Francisco	Dr. Derrick Tabor
Case Western Reserve University	Involving Communities in Delivering and Disseminating Health Disparity Interventions Contact PI: Sehgal, Ashwini	Dr. Jennifer Alvidrez
Duke University	Duke Center for REsearch to AdvanCe Healthcare Equity Contact PI: Johnson, Kimberly	Dr. Benyam Hailu
Johns Hopkins University	Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Contact PI: Gaskin, Darrell J	Dr. Derrick Tabor
New York University School of Medicine	NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health Contact PI: Chau Trinh-Shevrin	Dr. Dorothy Castille
University of Arkansas for Med Sciences	Arkansas Center for Health Disparities Contact PI: Raczynski, James M	Dr. Richard Berzon
University of Alabama at Birmingham	Obesity Health Disparities Research Center Contact PI: Fouad, Mona N	Dr. Richard Berzon
University of Colorado Denver	American Indian and Alaska Native Health Disparities Contact PI: Manson, Spero Martin	Dr. DeLoris Hunter
University of Illinois at Chicago	Center for Health Equity Research Contact PI: Winn, Robert Andrew	Dr. Adelaida Rosario
University of Miami at Coral Gables	Center for Latino Health Research Opportunities – Claro Contact PI: Mitrani, Victoria Behar	Dr. Jennifer Alvidrez
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center	Transdisciplinary Research, Equity and Engagement Center for Advancing Behavioral Health Contact PI: Cacari Stone, Lisa Marie	Dr. Richard Berzon
University of North Texas Health Science Center	Texas Center for Minority Health, Education, Research and Outreach Contact PI: Vishwanatha, Jamboor K	Dr. Rina Das

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