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FY 2021 Grants

Minority Leaders Development Program

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

Award Recipients Award Amount
The George Washington University $583,203
Kennedy Krieger Institute, Inc. $750,000
National Hispanic Medical Association $750,000
Total: $2,083,203

National Lupus Outreach and Clinical Trial Education Program

Grant period: 2021-2023

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.

The project period for the grant is September 30, 2021 – September 29, 2023

Award Recipient Award Amount
American College of Rheumatology $500,000
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority $256,543
Lupus Foundation of America, Inc. $500,000
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York $426,192
The University of Alabama $351,712
Total: $2,034,447

Framework to Address Health Disparities through Collaborative Policy Efforts: Coordinating Center and Demonstration Projects

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

Award Recipient - Coordinating Center Award Amount
National Network of Public Health Institutes $500,000
Total: $500,000

 

Award Recipient - Demonstration Projects Award Amount
Baltimore City Health Department $374,741
The Center for Black Health & Equity $375,000
Illinois Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Association $300,700
Morehouse School of Medicine, Inc. $374,845
Native American Development Corporation $375,000
The Regents of the University of California, Irvine $350,312
Total: $2,150,598

Accessing Social Determinants of Health Data Through Local Data Intermediaries

Grant period: 2021-2024

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.

Award Recipients Award Amount
Community Information Now $250,000
The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles $250,000
Total: $500,000

Family-Centered Approaches to Improving Type 2 Diabetes Control and Prevention

Grant period: 2021-2024

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.

Award Recipients Award Amount
Asian Health Coalition $499,493.00
Brookland Center for Community Economic Change $500,000.00
Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council, Inc. $499,745.85
Denver Indian Health and Family Services $416,057.00
Family Health International $499,799.31
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences $499,520.00
The University of Texas at Austin $486,808.00
Total: $ 3,401,423.16

Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity

Grant period: 2021-2023

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:

  1. Participating in, contributing to, and managing the Center’s advisory board;
  2. Partnering with indigenous leaders, AI/AN and NHPI communities, and academic institutions on the Center’s activities;
  3. Identifying and disseminating culturally appropriate, evidence-based and/or practice-based interventions, best practices, promising approaches, and lessons learned; and
  4. Designing and providing education and training to support community capacity-building.

The project period for the grants is September 30, 2021, to September 29, 2023.

Award Recipients Award Amount
Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences $986,522
University of Hawaii $999,994
Total: $1,986,516

Advancing Health Literacy to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19

Grant period: 2021-2023

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.

Grantees City State Award
Alameda County Health Care Services San Leandro CA $1,994,565
Baltimore City Health Department Baltimore MD $4,000,000
Benton County Bentonville AR $3,900,000
Bernalillo County Albuquerque NM $2,092,836
Boston Public Health Commission Boston MA $3,875,000
Broward County Fort Lauderdale FL $3,875,000
City of Albany Albany GA $3,900,000
City of Albuquerque Albuquerque NM $3,950,810
City of Baton Rouge Baton Rouge LA $4,000,000
City of Chattanooga Chattanooga TN $3,404,247
City of Chula Vista Chula Vista CA $4,000,000
City of Frederick Frederick MD $3,939,842
City of Fresno Fresno CA $4,000,000
City of Jacksonville Jacksonville FL $3,295,342
City of Las Vegas Las Vegas NV $1,670,000
City of Lauderhill Lauderhill FL $3,875,000
City of Lincoln Lincoln NE $3,526,006
City of Memphis Memphis TN $3,900,000
City of Milwaukee Milwaukee WI $4,000,000
City of Minneapolis Minneapolis MN $2,040,000
City of Montgomery Montgomery AL $3,900,000
City of New Orleans New Orleans LA $3,900,000
City of Newark Newark NJ $3,875,000
City of Paterson Paterson NJ $4,000,000
City of Pine Bluff Pine Bluff AR $1,240,411
City of Reading Reading PA $3,999,382
City of Richmond Richmond VA $4,000,000
City of Rock Hill Rock Hill SC $3,875,000
City of Rockford Rockford IL $3,614,521
City of Santa Ana Santa Ana CA $4,000,000
City of Tuskegee* Tuskegee AL $3,000,000
City of Vicksburg* Vicksburg MS $3,000,000
City of Waterbury Waterbury CT $4,000,000
City Of Wichita Wichita KS $4,000,000
Clayton County Jonesboro GA $2,000,000
Dallas County Dallas TX $4,000,000
District of Columbia Department of Health Washington DC $3,999,923
Doña Ana County* Las Cruces NM $2,460,636
Durham County Durham NC $2,000,000
Eagle County Public Health & Environment* Eagle CO $2,999,970
Fairfax County Fairfax VA $3,875,000
Franklin County Columbus OH $3,999,169
Fresno County Department of Public Health* Fresno CA $3,000,000
Fulton County Atlanta GA $3,900,000
Gila County* Globe AZ $2,571,740
Hawaii County* Hilo HI $3,000,000
Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County Indianapolis IN $2,861,449
Kansas City Health Department Kansas City MO $2,847,052
Kent County Grand Rapids MI $2,089,233
Maricopa County Phoenix AZ $4,000,000
Mecklenburg County Health Department Charlotte NC $3,900,000
Monterey County Health Department Salinas CA $3,952,437
New Haven Health Department New Haven CT $4,000,000
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene New York City NY $3,875,000
Oklahoma City County Health Department Oklahoma City OK $3,900,000
Orange County Goshen NY $800,000
Pima County Tucson AZ $4,000,000
Prince Georges County Upper Marlboro MD $3,999,807
Public Health Seattle & King County Seattle WA $3,875,000
Rhode Island Public Health Foundation Providence RI $2,008,508
Salt Lake County Salt Lake City UT $3,844,568
San Antonio Metropolitan Health District San Antonio TX $3,999,933
Shelby County Memphis TN $3,955,982
Snohomish Health District Everett WA $4,000,000
Town of Fort Deposit* Fort Deposit AL $2,992,292
Town of Inverness* Inverness MS $3,000,000
Wake County Human Services Raleigh NC $4,000,000
Washington County* Greenville MS $2,999,992
Washington County Hillsboro OR $3,998,575
Wayne County Detroit MI $3,919,116
Westchester County Department of Health White Plains NY $3,763,565
Yuma County Yuma AZ $2,073,177
Total $250,000,000

*Denotes awardees with a focus on serving rural communities and populations.

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