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Community Health Worker-Led DREAM Intervention Helps South Asian Immigrants Gain Blood Pressure Control
A culturally adapted telehealth intervention led by community health workers (CHWs) improved blood pressure control among South Asian immigrants with co-occurring type 2 diabetes by 33.7% compared to 16.5% in a control group.
CHWs are community members who share the same race, ethnicity, language, and life experiences with the people they serve and provide culturally appropriate health education and informal guidance to improve care access.
NIMHD Fellows’ Influence Extends to NIH’s 2024 Postbac Poster Day and Beyond
Hundreds of postbac fellows recently filled the Natcher Conference Center for NIH’s 2024 Postbac Poster Day. Among them were 11 NIMHD early-career researchers already advancing understanding of minority health and health disparities research.
Researcher’s Community-Engaged Studies to Halt Health-Related Miseducation, Misinformation, and Misconceptions in Her Asian Community
NIMHD’s Conversations with Researchers Engaging With Communities
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month. As we celebrate the significant contributions to America—from its history through present day and beyond—by people who represent AANHPI communities, we’re recognizing researchers who are promoting health equity through their community-engaged research.
Researching Expressive Helping for Chinese American Cancer Survivors
NIMHD’s Conversations with Researchers Engaging With Communities
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month. As we celebrate the significant contributions to America—from its history through present day and beyond—by people who represent AANHPI communities, we’re recognizing researchers who are promoting health equity through their community-engaged research.
Sleep Disturbances and Sleep Apnea Associated with Complex Multimorbidity in Asian American Populations
In this NIMHD study, focused on Chinese and Korean American populations experiencing sleep disturbances, researchers found an association between:
- Complex multimorbidity
- The coexistence of three or more chronic diseases in an individual
- Sleep apnea risk
The study is the first known to examine the associations between sleep measures and complex multimorbidity and to analyze these relations among Asian Americans.
NIMHD Postbac Fellows Share Path, Inspiration Behind Their Posters
Conversation with Swati Shah, Fetal Life, LLC
NIMHD’s Conversations with Researchers Innovating to Promote Health Equity
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
NIH-Funded Study Highlights the Financial Toll of Health Disparities in the United States
May 16, 2023: Ground-breaking study provides national and state-level estimates of the economic burden of health disparities by race and ethnicity and educational levels. Video release: The Staggering Cost of Health Inequities
Conversation with Tony Ma, M.S., Benten Technologies, Inc.
NIMHD’s Conversations with Researchers Innovating to Promote Health Equity
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. As we celebrate the significant contributions to America—from its history through present day—by people who represent Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities, we recognize researchers who are promoting health equity through their work funded through NIMHD’s Small Business Innovation Research/Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Program.