Pilot Projects
Project Duration: July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025
- Principal Investigator(s): Laura Bellows, PhD, MPH, RDN
Project Title: Partnering to Address Health Inequities in Early Childhood Education Teachers’ Health and Wellbeing
- Principal Investigator(s): Jamuna Krishnan, MD
Project Title: Medical Assistants as Interventionists to Improve CVD Prevention Among Black Adults with COPD
- Principal Investigator(s): Pragya Kakani, PhD
Project Title: The role of formulary restrictions in explaining racial and ethnic disparities in the use of newer diabetes medications
- Principal Investigator(s): David Scales, MD, PhD
Project Title: Understanding local information environments of trusted sources for health information in Cameroon to address questions, concerns, and misinformation about malaria vaccines via WhatsApp
Community Partnership Building Projects
Project Duration: July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025
- Principal Investigator(s): H. Allison Bender, PhD, ABPP
Project Title: Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy Patients (SUDEP) in historically under-served patient groups: Leveraging community partnerships for proactive prevention via a public health approach - Principal Investigator(s): Shoshana Rosenberg, ScD, MPH
Project Title: Patient Research Engagement in Survivorship, Treatment and Outcomes (PRESTO) - Principal Investigator(s): Marlen Z Gonzalez, PhD
Project Title: Empowering Black, Latinx, and Indigenous educators with accessible neuroscience to achieve health equity
Past Pilot Projects
Pilot Projects
Project Duration: July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024
- Project Title: Preliminary Testing of a Culturally and Linguistically Targeted and Web-Based Decision Aid on Lung Cancer Screening Decision-Making in Chinese New Yorkers Who Smoke.
Principal Investigator(s): Yiwey Shieh, MD and Chien-Ching Li, PhD,
- Project Title: Comparative evaluation of fasting vs non-fasting screening methods for gestational diabetes in minority populations: a mixed methods study.
Principal Investigator(s): Puja Chebrolu, MD, MSc, and Ashlesha Dayal, MD
- Project Title: Evaluation of a community health worker framework for improving access to dengue vector surveillance, reporting, and prevention in remote communities of the Peruvian Amazon.
Principal Investigator(s): Laura Harrington, PhD
- Project Title: Maternal and Neonatal Health Effects and Sustainability of an Intervention to Promote Family Planning in Partnership with Religious Leaders in Tanzania.
Principal Investigator(s): Jennifer A. Downs, MD, PhD and Agrey H. Mwakisole, M.A., D.I.S.
Community Partnership Building Projects
Project Duration: July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024
- Project Title: Role of the Immigration Bar in Improving Health Data Collection Among Child and Youth Farmworkers
Principal Investigator(s): Beth Lyon, J.D., M.S.F.S., Bethany Boggess Alcauter, PhD, MPH, and Nicandro Mandujano Acevedo, MPH
Partner Organization: National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH) - Project Title: Braiding Resources for Applied Action Research to Unpack and Address Barriers to Health Equity.
Principal Investigator(s): Gen Meredith, DrPH, OTR
Partner Organization: Tompkins County Whole Health and Cayuga Health - Project Title: Stop the Bleed East Harlem: Improving Health Equity and Characterizing Community Perceptions of Violent Injury.
Principal Investigator(s): Elizabeth Gorman, MD, Sarah Hatfield, MD, MPH, and Kathleen Bernier, LMSW
Partner Organization: Exodus Transitional Community Center
Pilot Project Title: Engaging food retailers to improve nutrient-dense food access and food sustainability capacity for marginalized groups in residential urban food environments
Principal Investigator(s): Roger Figueroa, PhD, MPH, MSc and Katherine Baker, MS, MPH, PhD
Project Duration: July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023
Pilot Project Title: Expanding Understanding of Black Experiences of Gynecologic Cancer: A Nationwide Qualitative Research Project with Survivors and Oncologists
Principal Investigator(s): Amelia Greiner Safi, PhD MS and Onyinye Balogun, MD MSc
Project Duration: July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023
Pilot Project Title: The Acceptability, Feasibility, and Usability of The Home Optimum Medication Education and Smart Storage (HOPES) Program Medication Safety Training Module
Principal Investigator(s): Rana Zadeh, PhD
Project Duration: July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023
Pilot Project Title: Collaboration among Health Care, Visiting Nurse, and Meal Delivery Services to Support Population Health and Position the Team to Conduct Implementation Research in Rural Areas
Principal Investigator(s): Karla L. Hanson, PhD
Project Duration: February 1, 2022 – January 31, 2023
Pilot Project Title: Home Opioid Prescription Education and Smart Storage (HOPES) Program in Tompkins and Cortland Counties: Design Meets Medicine to Improve Health and Independence for Older Adults with Dementia at Home
Principal Investigator(s): Rana Sagha Zadeh, PhD
Project Duration: February 1, 2022 – January 31, 2023
Pilot Project Title: Use of a web-based platform (Patient Activated Learning System) to promote knowledge, uptake and completion of HPV Vaccination in the Era of COVID
Principal Investigator(s): Eloise Chapman-Davis, MD
Project Duration: July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022
Pilot Project Title: Addressing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Disparities Among Low-Income Households with Adolescents Using a Novel Telehealth Lifestyle Intervention
Principal Investigator(s): Tashara M. Leak, PhD, RD and Marisa Censani, MD
Project Duration: July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022
Pilot Project Title: Supporting Community Health Workers in Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation in Low-Resource Environments
Principal Investigator(s): Aditya Vashistha, PhD, David Scales, MD, PhD and Antonio P. DeRosa, EdD
Project Duration: July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022
Pilot Project Title: Centering the Marginalized Voices of Black Patients with Gynecological Cancer as a First Step in Healthcare Curriculum Development
Principal Investigator(s): Onyinye D. Balogun, MD and Amelia Greiner Safi, PhD MS
Project Duration: July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022
Pilot Project Title: A Collaboration between the Digital Health Patient Activated Learning System (PALS) and the Division of Nutritional Sciences to Develop Nutrition Content for Populations with Health Disparities; A Multisite Pilot Study in New York State
Principal Investigator(s): Patricia Cassano, PhD and Keith Roach, MD
Project Duration: March 1, 2020- February 28, 2021
Community Partnership Project Title: Home Care Workers in Rural and Upstate New York
Principal Investigator(s): Madeline Sterling, MD and Ariel Avgar, PhD
Project Duration: March 1, 2020- February 28, 2021
Pilot Project Title: Evaluating the Reach Medical model of care on improving health outcomes for people who inject drugs in Ithaca, New Yor
Principal Investigator: Czarina Behrends, MD
Project Duration: September 1, 208 – August 31, 2019
Project Title: Understanding the Barriers to Care for Blacks with Symptomatic Arthritis
Principal Investigator: Susan Goodman, MD
Project Duration: September 1, 208 – August 31, 2019