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Using place-based education to engage Bronx high schoolers and teachers in health disparity research

Award Number: R25GM154351
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 06/20/2024
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/30/2029

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Using place-based education to engage Bronx high schoolers and teachers in health disparity research - Project Summary/Abstract A critical mass of health researchers is needed to reduce health disparities affecting minority and underserved communities. Bronx residents’ experience health disparities with special attention on diabetes, mental health, STDs, asthma, sleep disorders, and injury. COVID-19 exacerbated Bronx’s health disparities. Lehman College has a long-standing mission to educate students from diverse backgrounds and is uniquely poised to address health disparities. This current project will enhance Lehman’s Science and Technology Entry Program – STEP and will target Bronx High School Marie Curie School for Medicine, Nursing, and Health Professions (Marie Curie). The overall goal of this community health training modules using a place-based approach (PBE) for Marie Curie’s high school teachers on health disparities research-related topics of importance to the Bronx. The focus is to design professional development modules on the principles of community health and health disparities research. One cohort of teachers will receive training on health disparities topics and theories and incorporate these topics into Unit Plans using place-based education approaches. These plans will be implemented through the Lehman STEP program for Cohort 1 of students in Year 2. In the summer Year 2 modules will be revised and adjusted based on teacher’s and student’s feedback and re-piloted in cohort 2 in Year 3.Phase 2 has two aims: Specific Aim 2: Create a high school-to-college pathway for Bronx high schoolers by providing in-classroom training and summer practicum research experiences with a near-peer college student to motivate studies in biomedical, behavioral and data science careers; and Specific Aim 3: Create community health forums with public health and health services practitioners and scientists to identify successful career pathways, challenges and career transition nodes of the ‘biomedical workforce in the Bronx and New York City. The focus of Phase 2 is to foster research methods with a health disparities perspective and an intersectionality approach to data among two cohorts of high schoolers. Students will collaborate with a near-peer Lehman college student as a tutor. Participants will receive in-class education in tailored quantitative reasoning and analyses and English composition college level courses combined with summer research practicum boosters. Student and teachers will also participate in health forums with public health and health services practitioners to learn about biomedical careers and pathways. This project is relevant to NIH’s mission to enhance health and reduce the burden of illness by providing scientific training and mentorship to high schools that have large populations of underrepresented minorities and underprivileged students.


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 = $248,414 )
2025	2025	RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	250 BEDFORD PARK BLVD W	BRONX	NY	10468	BRONX	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	002	2	7/10/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$248,414
2025	2024	RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	250 BEDFORD PARK BLVD W	BRONX	NY	10468	BRONX	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	1	5/30/2025	NEW	$0
2025	2024	RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	250 BEDFORD PARK BLVD W	BRONX	NY	10468	BRONX	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	001	1	7/2/2025	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $248,414

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $263,761 )
2024	2024	RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK	250 BEDFORD PARK BLVD W	BRONX	NY	10468	BRONX	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	1	6/19/2024	NEW	$263,761
														Subtotal = $263,761

Grand Total All Awards = $512,175

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Using place-based education to engage Bronx high schoolers and teachers in health disparity research

Award Number: R25GM154351

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

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

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 06/20/2024

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/30/2029

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