FY 2024 Grant Awards

HHS Awards $11.6 Million to Address Disparities in Healthy People 2030 Leading Health Indicators

On September 3, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) announced $11.6 million in grant awards to 20 organizations for its Community Level Innovations for Improving Health Outcomes Initiative. The awards will support a four-year initiative to identify community level innovations that increase the use of preventive health services with a goal of reducing health disparities – differences in health status among people in certain racial, ethnic, and Tribal communities. Health disparities are often related to social determinants of health (SDOH)(link is external).

The Initiative is focused on making progress toward Leading Health Indicator (LHI)(link is external) targets. The 23 LHIs impact major causes of death and disease in the United States, and LHIs are a subset of high priority Healthy People 2030(link is external) (HP2030) objectives selected to drive action toward improving health and well-being.

“Factors such as poverty, limited access to health care, and lack of education or health literacy are examples of SDOH that individually and collectively have negative impacts on health outcomes for racial and ethnic minority and Tribal populations,” said Rear Admiral Felicia Collins, M.D., HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health and OMH Director. “By implementing community interventions that address multiple SDOH, awardees will advance our knowledge of how to increase preventive health service utilization and improve health outcomes related to LHIs.”

The project period for each grant is September 1, 2024, thru August 31, 2028.

The awardees are:

Award RecipientsCityStateSelected LHI(s)Amount
Arizona Community Health
Workers Association, Inc.
(AzCHOW)
DouglasAZIncrease the proportion of adults who get screened for colorectal cancer (C-07)(link is external);
Reduce household food insecurity and hunger (NWS-01)(link is external)
$533,333.34
Cambridge Health AllianceCambridgeMAIncrease control of high blood pressure in adults (HDS-05)(link is external)$600,000
Casa Esperanza, Inc.RoxburyMAReduce drug overdose deaths (SU-03)(link is external);
Reduce the suicide rate (MHMD-01)(link is external)
$600,000
The Curators of the University
of Missouri on behalf of the
University of Missouri-St. Louis
St. LouisMOReduce drug overdose deaths (SU-03)(link is external)$600,000
Georgia State University
Research Foundation, Inc.
AtlantaGAReduce household food insecurity and hunger (NWS-01)(link is external); Increase control of high blood pressure in adults (HDS-05)(link is external)$600,000
HealthVisions Midwest, Inc.HammondINIncrease the proportion of people with diabetes who get formal diabetes education (D06)(link is external)$533,333.34
Housing Works Health
Services III, Inc.
BrooklynNYReduce household food insecurity and hunger (NWS01)(link is external);
Increase control of high blood pressure in adults (HDS05)(link is external)
$533,333.34
ICNA Relief USA ProgramsCharlestonSCReduce the number of diabetes cases diagnosed yearly (D01)(link is external)$561,318.26
Illuminate ColoradoDenverCOReduce the rate of infant deaths (MICH02)(link is external);
Reduce maternal deaths (MICH04)(link is external)
$584,692
Jewish Family Service of Dallas, Inc.DallasTXReduce household food insecurity and hunger (NWS01)(link is external);
Reduce the number of diabetes cases diagnosed yearly (D01)(link is external)
$482,805.95
Metropolitan Development and Housing AgencyNashvilleTNReduce household food insecurity and hunger (NWS01)(link is external);
Increase the proportion of pregnant women who receive early and adequate prenatal care (MICH-08)(link is external)
$600,000
Pascua Yaqui TribeTucsonAZReduce the proportion of children and adolescents with obesity (NWS04)(link is external)$569,928
Project HOPE, The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. (Implementation Area – Bexar County, TX)WashingtonD.C.Reduce the number of diabetes cases diagnosed yearly (D01)(link is external)$600,000
Rhode Island Department of Health ProvidenceRIIncrease control of high blood pressure in adults (HDS05)(link is external);
Reduce the number of diabetes cases diagnosed yearly (D01)(link is external)
$600,000
San Diego State University Foundation San DiegoCAIncrease the proportion of adolescents with depression who get treatment (MHMD06)(link is external)$599,997
School-Based Health Alliance (Implementation Areas - New Mexico and West Virginia counties)WashingtonD.C.Reduce household food insecurity and hunger (NWS01)(link is external);
Increase the proportion of adolescents with depression who get treatment (MHMD06)(link is external)
$600,000
University of Arkansas for Medical SciencesLittle RockARReduce the rate of infant deaths (MICH02)(link is external);
Reduce maternal deaths (MICH04)(link is external)
$599,887
University of HawaiiHonoluluHIReduce the suicide rate (MHMD01)(link is external)$598,906 
Wayne State UniversityDetroitMIReduce drug overdose deaths (SU03)(link is external); Increase the proportion of adults who get screened for colorectal cancer (C07)(link is external)$599,959
Western Reserve Land ConservancyMoreland HillsOHIncrease the proportion of adults who do enough aerobic and muscle-strengthening activity (PA05)(link is external);
Increase control of high blood pressure in adults (HDS05)(link is external)
$593,882.50
Total$11,591,375.73

Last Edited: 02/20/2025