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Grant period: 2021-2023
The Minority Leaders Development Program aims to enhance skills and competencies necessary for federal leadership service among participants through a curriculum focused on health care policy, leadership skill-building, and cultural competence. The initiative will fill a gap in federal fellowship opportunities for individuals interested in working at HHS to advance health equity and address the social determinants of health through health policies, programs, and practices.
The two-year fellowship program will provide early-career individuals with training in health equity issues and leadership, fellowship-related work experiences, supplemental learning opportunities, and mentorship. The full list of awardees is below.
The project period for the grant is September 30, 2021 – September 29, 2023
The National Lupus Outreach and Clinical Trial Education Program will demonstrate the effectiveness of interventions for increasing minority participation in lupus-related clinical trials. By improving clinical trial diversity, the National Lupus Outreach and Clinical Trial Education Program seeks to help to reduce lupus-related health disparities experienced by racial and ethnic minority populations.
Projects are expected to develop public-private and community partnerships to support and/or sustain effective practices to increase racial and ethnic minority enrollment and retention in lupus clinical trials, and tailor existing outreach or education interventions that focus on health care providers/practitioners and/or racial and ethnic minority populations.
Grant period: 2021-2024
The Framework to Address Health Disparities through the Collaborative Policy Efforts initiative is designed to help identify and address policies that may create or perpetuate health disparities and contribute to structural racism.
The coordinating center is expected to lead the development and evaluation of a methodological framework, structured process, and tool to support the assessment and identification of policies that may create or perpetuate health disparities and contribute to structural racism. The demonstration projects will utilize the framework, process, and tool to identify specific policies that may create or perpetuate health disparities and contribute to structural racism and will work to modify or develop new policies to improve health outcomes. The full list of awardees is below.
The project period for the grant is September 30, 2021 – September 29, 2024
The Accessing Social Determinants of Health Data Through Local Data Intermediaries initiative will demonstrate whether existing local data intermediaries can facilitate community stakeholder access to and use of integrated community-level social determinants of health and health data. The initiative will also increase community stakeholders’ skills and capacity to use and apply data related to health disparities.
A local data intermediary is a community-based entity that acts as the mediator between data and local stakeholders, such as nonprofit organizations, community and faith-based organizations, governments, foundations, and residents. HHS OMH expects the projects funded through this initiative to increase the use of data related to social determinants of health and social risk in ways that enhance the development of local policies, programs, and practices that address health disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations; and increase the capacity of community stakeholders to use data to make data-informed decisions to improve the health of racial and ethnic minority and disadvantaged populations.
The project period for the grants is September 30, 2021, to September 29, 2024.
The new Family-Centered Type 2 Diabetes Control and Prevention Initiative aims to test interventions to identify family-centered factors that promote self-management and prevention of Type 2 diabetes among racial and ethnic minority and disadvantaged families who have a member(s) aged 12 and older with Type 2 diabetes.
Through the testing of family-centered interventions, OMH expects awardees to identify specific family-centered factors (e.g., structural, functional, and cultural) that affect patient self-management of diabetes (e.g., physical activity and healthy nutrition) and family members' health outcomes. The seven grantees will conduct projects in Arkansas, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and Washington.
The project period for the grant is September 30, 2021 – September 29, 2024.
The Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity (the Center) will support efforts including education, service and policy development, and research related to advancing sustainable solutions to address health disparities and advance health equity among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) populations.
OMH expects the Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity recipients will implement the Center by:
The project period for the grants is September 30, 2021, to September 29, 2023.
The Advancing Health Literacy to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19 seeks to demonstrate the effectiveness of local government implementation of evidence-based health literacy strategies that are culturally appropriate to enhance COVID-19 testing, contact tracing and/or other mitigation measures (e.g., public health prevention practices and vaccination) in racial and ethnic minority populations and other socially vulnerable populations, including racial and ethnic minority rural communities.
OMH expects the awardee projects to demonstrate the effectiveness of working with local community-based organizations to develop health literacy plans to increase the availability, acceptability, and use of COVID-19 public health information and services by racial and ethnic minority populations. Recipients are also expected to leverage local data to identify racial and ethnic minority populations at the highest risk for health disparities and low health literacy, as well as populations not currently reached through existing public health campaigns.
The project period for the grants is July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023.
*Denotes awardees with a focus on serving rural communities and populations.
