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Center for Research, Health and Society

Award Number: P50MD017319
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/24/2021
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2026

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Center for Research, Health and Society - PROJECT SUMMARY - OVERALL Arkansas, located in the Southern region of the United States, ranks among the lowest in the nation in overall health outcomes and in cancer and cardiovascular disease. Within Arkansas, the place-based burden of chronic diseases is quite profound, with rural and low resource communities faring the worst. Forty-one percent of Arkansans live in rural areas where chronic disease risk factors and underlying determinants of health have not changed in decades. Poverty and food insecurity are higher, and wages, employment opportunities and health care access are lower in rural than in urban Arkansas, and particularly in the Delta region of the state. To address the place-based health burden in Arkansas, the Center for Research, Health, and Society (CRHS) will use a community engagement framework to inform the development and implementation of a robust process for advancing novel multilevel and transdisciplinary research. The Center will engage communities in partnerships to address the causes of chronic diseases and build and train a competent workforce among academics and community members who are prepared to reduce cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Our community change theme will help the CRHS identify factors in the community and the academy that inform how the cores, research projects, advisory boards, and our broad-based coalition of partners can work synergistically to accomplish CRHS goals. Our coalition of stakeholders includes partners in the Northwest, Highlands and Delta regions of Arkansas and multiple organizational partners integrated into the cores and research projects who will employ common measures, tools, methods, and approaches to accomplish the CRHS goals. The CRHS will work with the Research Coordinating Center to leverage and share resources, engage in cutting-edge cross center research, and increase networking and research opportunities for new investigators. The CRHS will leverage multiple federally funded resources including the Clinical Translational Science Award program, the National Research Mentoring Network, federally funded center grants, and federal surveys to help facilitate research, training, mentoring, dissemination, and translation of research to inform public practice and interventions. CRHS builds on our prior successes and will create a robust broad-based research ecosystem that serves as a national model for reducing chronic diseases.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $4,749,323 )
2025	2025	UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES	4301 W MARKHAM ST	LITTLE ROCK	AR	72205	PULASKI	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	5	8/3/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$4,749,323
														Subtotal = $4,749,323

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $4,799,359 )
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES	4301 W MARKHAM ST	LITTLE ROCK	AR	72205	PULASKI	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	003	4	8/17/2024	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$1,032,002
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES	4301 W MARKHAM ST	LITTLE ROCK	AR	72205	PULASKI	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	002	4	7/11/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$3,767,357
2024	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES	4301 W MARKHAM ST	LITTLE ROCK	AR	72205	PULASKI	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	3	10/10/2023	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$0
2024	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES	4301 W MARKHAM ST	LITTLE ROCK	AR	72205	PULASKI	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	3	3/29/2024	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$0
														Subtotal = $4,799,359

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $4,740,257 )
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES	4301 W MARKHAM ST	LITTLE ROCK	AR	72205	PULASKI	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	3	7/25/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$3,770,259
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES	4301 W MARKHAM ST	LITTLE ROCK	AR	72205	PULASKI	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	002	3	9/24/2023	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$969,998
2023	2022	UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES	4301 W MARKHAM ST	LITTLE ROCK	AR	72205	PULASKI	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	2	7/31/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $4,740,257

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $3,790,022 )
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM	4301 W MARKHAM ST SLOT 812 BIO-MED BLDG 1 STE 102	LITTLE ROCK	AR	72205	PULASKI	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	2	6/30/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$3,790,022
2022	2021	UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM	4301 W MARKHAM ST SLOT 812 BIO-MED BLDG 1 STE 102	LITTLE ROCK	AR	72205	PULASKI	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	002	1	7/5/2022	NEW	$0
2022	2021	UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM	4301 W MARKHAM ST SLOT 812 BIO-MED BLDG 1 STE 102	LITTLE ROCK	AR	72205	PULASKI	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	1	2/22/2022	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $3,790,022

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $3,864,520 )
2021	2021	UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM	4301 W MARKHAM ST SLOT 812 BIO-MED BLDG 1 STE 102	LITTLE ROCK	AR	72205	PULASKI	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	1	9/24/2021	NEW	$3,864,520
														Subtotal = $3,864,520

Grand Total All Awards = $21,943,481

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Center for Research, Health and Society

Award Number: P50MD017319

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/24/2021

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2026

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