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Meet Me on the Pitch: Developing and testing a community-based sports and behavioral health intervention for newcomer youth
PROJECT SUMMARY Refugee and immigrant “newcomer” youth who have arrived in the United States in the last five years frequently have unmet mental health challenges and face signific...
Housing, Environment, And Living Conditions for Transformed Health (HEALTHe Birmingham)
Abstract Disparities in lung disease and other chronic conditions between poor, mostly Black residents of public housing communities and the general population are profound, leadin...
Development and Implementation of Culturally Sensitive Safety Planning to Reduce Suicide Risk in Adolescents Seeking Care in Rural Emergency Departments
PROJECT SUMMART/ABSTRACT One-in-five children and adolescents in the United States (US) live in rural areas where they experience approximately two times the risk of suicide compar...
Designing for sustainability: Co-designing and testing the efficacy of a web-based toolkit to improve cancer-related emotional distress and anxiety for rural older cancer survivors
PROJECT SUMMARY: From 2019-2022, telehealth uptake in rural health clinics surged by 73%. This rapid acceleration in telehealth uptake was driven by COVID-19 precautions, the perma...
Loss of the Y Chromosome and Its Implications in Aging
PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Loss of the Y chromosome (LOY) is predominantly observed in the circulating white blood cells of older men, suggesting a significant link to the aging proc...
Collaborative Research: EDGE CMT: Utilizing adaptive variation in predatory behavior to uncover the relationship between genes and complex behavioral phenotypes
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Privacy Preservation in Transcriptomic Data Analysis
PROJECT SUMMARY Understanding the mechanism behind cellular activities requires large-scale mining of genetic and transcriptomic observations from large amounts of human data. Wide...
Remotely Coupled Wireless Antenna System For Implantable Electronics
PROJECT SUMMARY: Implantable electronics can provide a direct connection to the endogenous sensorimotor pathways, can offer an exciting opportunity for intuitive and dexterous cont...
Developing and Pilot Testing a Mental Health Support Intervention for Ethiopian and Eritrean Youth
PROJECT SUMMARY Nearly one in five Black Americans are first- or second- generation immigrants; however, little research to date focuses on the experiences of these communities in...
Liver Transplant-Community Access for Referral Equity (LT-CARE) Pilot Study
ABSTRACT Cirrhosis is the end-result of chronic liver disease mainly viral hepatitis, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, and alcohol-related liver disease. The only...
Hispanic Firearm Suicide Decedents: Identifying Circumstances and Typologies with National Violent Death Reporting System Data
Nearly 1 in 2 Hispanic adult suicide deaths involves a firearm, the most lethal suicide method. However, there are critical gaps in characterizing Hispanic firearm suicide deaths a...
Comparing Technological and Relational Approaches to Support Families After a Missed Well Child Visit
ABSTRACT Well-Child visits (WCV) are an opportunity to maximize the health, development, and future well-being of children. Scheduled but not attended (“no-showed”) visits can lead...
Computational approaches to discover ligands with new chemotypes and functional properties
Project Summary Discovery of selective and potent ligands for novel targets, as well as ligands with new functionalities remains a slow and expensive process, hampering pharmacolog...
Investigating the Effect of Synthetic Medical Images on Fairness in Medical Deep Learning Research
PROJECT ABSTRACT This grant proposal describes a research project that aims to improve the fairness of deep learning models for pathology detection in chest radiographs. Health equ...
Investigating Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy in the US
PROJECT ABSTRACT Compared to their Non-Hispanic White peers, Non-Hispanic Black persons in the US are 79% more likely to suffer chronic hypertension in pregnancy, 13% more likely t...
Biomarkers of neurodegeneration in the US and India: A cross-national evaluation of the biological underpinnings of ADRD
PROJECT SUMMARY Inconsistencies between observed effects on biological versus clinical endpoints of recent disease-modifying therapies for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Deme...
Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: Cross-national longitudinal prognosis and risk factors
Project Summary/Abstract Tremendous growth in the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) is expected, with estimates indicating that by 2050 two-thirds of a...
Community - based behavioral intervention to increase COVID - 19 and influenza vaccination for African American/ Black and Latino persons: An optimization randomized controlled trial
PROJECT SUMMARY. The proposed study responds to NOT-MD-23-008, which calls for community-engaged interventions to increase vaccine uptake among populations experiencing health disp...
Effects of leptin modulation on health span and lifespan
Project Summary/Abstract The overall objective of the research proposal is to explore the impact of leptin modulation on healthspan and lifespan. Aging is associated with a dramati...
Equity Implications of Lung Cancer Screening Strategies for Population Health: a Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
PROJECT SUMMARY Low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) screening reduces lung cancer deaths. However, LDCT screening rates are extremely low in the U.S., particularly among population...