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Deep South Center to Reduce Disparities in Chronic Diseases

Award Number: P50MD017338
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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Deep South Center to Reduce Disparities in Chronic Diseases - PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The “Deep South,” including Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, has the highest rates of obesity, diabetes, and hypertension in the nation. As a result, life expectancy in the Deep South is substantially lower than other regions, and this discrepancy is even greater for Black Americans. The mission of the Deep South Center to Reduce Disparities in Chronic Diseases (P50MD017338) is to promote health equity and reduce the burden of cardiometabolic diseases across the Deep South. The Center focuses on the prevention, treatment, and management of cardiometabolic diseases among Black Americans and low-income populations who suffer disproportionately from these conditions in our tri-state region. The Center is unified thematically through the application of the precision public health approach across the care continuum to achieve health equity, defined as “providing the right intervention to the right population at the right time”. This approach acknowledges the importance of context, culture, individual beliefs, and preferences as well as the need for multi-level and multi-domain interventions. The Center brings together a trans-disciplinary team of investigators from 4 institutions in 3 contiguous states (the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Tuskegee University, Louisiana’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center, and the University of Mississippi Medical Center) as well as regional non-academic partners to extend cardiometabolic research into real-world community and clinical settings. To accomplish its mission, the Center currently includes 3 cores (Administrative Core, Investigator Development Core, and Community Engagement Core) and 3 R01-level research projects, all of which focus on community- or clinic-based interventions for cardiometabolic diseases across the care continuum. This competitive revision builds on the Center’s current work to expand its reach with the addition of four interrelated pilot intervention trials evaluating novel therapeutic interventions for the prevention and management of cardiometabolic diseases among Black Americans. These projects are led by four productive and promising junior investigators committed to health equity research, which further supports the Center’s objectives to grow the number of health equity researchers in the region. Given the significant health disparities in cardiometabolic diseases evident in the Deep South coupled with the infrastructure and collaborations provided by the Center for these new investigators, this competitive revision will further expand the impact of these regional efforts to improve health equity for cardiometabolic outcomes.


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: 2024 ( Subtotal = $5,731,860 )
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH STREET	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	003	4	7/25/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$4,239,524
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH STREET	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	004	4	7/31/2024	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$1,492,336
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH STREET	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	005	4	8/24/2024	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$0
2024	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH STREET	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	3	1/29/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH STREET	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	002	3	1/29/2024	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$0
2024	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH ST	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	3	10/10/2023	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$0
														Subtotal = $5,731,860

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $6,471,811 )
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH ST	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	003	3	9/28/2023	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$0
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH ST	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	3	7/7/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$5,002,787
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH ST	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	002	3	9/24/2023	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$1,469,024
2023	2022	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH ST	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	2	7/7/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $6,471,811

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $5,003,143 )
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH ST	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	002	2	9/22/2022	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$371,250
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH ST	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	003	2	9/23/2022	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$371,250
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH ST	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	2	8/2/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$4,260,643
2022	2021	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH ST	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	1	2/22/2022	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $5,003,143

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $4,560,566 )
2021	2021	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH ST	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	1	9/24/2021	NEW	$4,560,566
														Subtotal = $4,560,566

Grand Total All Awards = $21,767,380

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Deep South Center to Reduce Disparities in Chronic Diseases

Award Number: P50MD017338

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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