Pilot Grants

About PHDR's Pilot Grants

The Program in Health Disparities Research is no longer sponsoring the Health Disparities Pilot Grants program. Below is a list of internal funding opportunities from our partners. If you have pilot grant funding you would like highlighted, please email [email protected].

 

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News from Former Grantees!

Pilot Grant Recipients Present at HESS

Recipients of a 2020 Pilot Grant in Health Disparities Research, Dylan Jennings (Bizhikiins) and Dana Carroll, PhD, MPH, presented their research at the October 2022 HESS co-sponsored by PHDR and C2DREAM. Along with co-investigator Dorothy Hatsukami, PhD, their overall research goal was to create a program that utilizes traditional tobacco to reframe what tobacco is (sacred) and is not (addictive). Carroll and Jennings will continue their research partnership with a grant from the National Cancer Institute. They will tailor QuitGuide, an existing smartphone-delivery cessation resource, and pilot test whether it is a feasible and acceptable smoking cessation resource for American Indian persons who smoke. Stay connected with us, we will have future updates on applying to the next cycle of Pilot Grants. Visit the Health Equity Seminar Series to view the schedule and register for future seminars.

Pilot Grant Recipients Hold a Community Presentation and Conversation to Disseminate Research Results

Recipients of a 2020 Pilot Grant in Health Disparities Research, Rodolfo Gutierrez, PhD and Gabriela Bustamante, PhD, presented their Un Poco de Luz: Learning from Cervical Cancer Screening among Uninsured Hispanics in Minnesota research findings to the community on September 23, 2022. Gutierrez and Bustamante identified factors that have contributed to the high level of usage of free cervical cancer screening (CCS) services provided by the Minnesota Department of Health’s (MDH) Sage program among low-income uninsured and underinsured Hispanic women in Minnesota using focus groups and in-depth interviews. In addition to sharing research findings, they debuted a video co-created by and starring participants from the study and produced by MLatino Media promoting cervical cancer screening and the use of the Sage program. Learn more about HACER. For information on applying to the next cycle of Pilot Grants, check back here in December. 

 

 

 

Funding Opportunities from UMN Partners

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Funding Opportunities from UMN Partners

Center for Chronic Disease Reduction and Engagement Across Minnesota (C2DREAM)

For funding opportunity descriptions explore C2DREAM's Grants & Training or email [email protected] for more information.

CTSI’s Community Engagement to Advance Research and Community Health (CEARCH)

For funding opportunity descriptions, check out CEARCH or email [email protected] for more information.

 

Life Course Center (LCC)

For funding opportunity descriptions visit LCC or email [email protected] for more information. 

Masonic Cancer Center (MCC)

For funding opportunity descriptions see the Masonic Cancer Center or email [email protected] for more information.

SPH's Health Equity Work Group (HEWG)

For funding opportunity descriptions see HEWG Pilot Grants or email [email protected] for more information. 

The Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA)

For funding opportunity descriptions check out CURA or email [email protected] for more information. 

Past PHDR Pilot Grantees


2023 - 2024

Hypertension Identification Using Mobile Health Outreach Project (HI HOPE)

Verna Price, PhD, Power of the People Leadership Institute Co-Founder

Rose Baumann, DO, Mobile Health Initiative, University of Minnesota 

The MN Pulmonary Airborne Clinical Toxin (M-PACT) Study

Mark A. Klein, MD, University of Minnesota Department of Medicine and Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota & Minneapolis VA Medical Center

Tammy A. Butterick, PhD, University of Minnesota Department of Neuroscience, Minneapolis VA Medical Center & Burn Pits 360 Veterans Organization

Janeen H. Trembley, PhD, MSPH, University of Minnesota Department of Lab Med & Path and Masonic Cancer Center & Minneapolis VA Medical Center 

2022 - 2023

Health Outcomes that Matter to Community Members Experiencing Homelessness and Their North Minneapolis Neighbors

Tallaya Byers, Envision Leader, Envision Communities, Inc.
Armel Green, Envision Leader, Envision Communities, Inc.
Sherry Shannon, Envision Leader, Envision Communities, Inc.
Freddy Toran, Envision Leader, Envision Communities, Inc.
Stuart Grande, PhD, MPA, Senior Lecturer, Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health

Identifying Cancer Support Needs in Diverse Rural Minnesota Communities

Shaunequa James, MSW, BSW, LGSW, Gilda's Club Program Director
Rachel I. Vogel, PhD, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Minnesota Medical School

2021 - 2022

HmongHPV eHealth website: A Pilot to Evaluate Dissemination Strategies

Kathleen Culhane-Pera, MD, MA, Community Clinician Researcher, SoLaHmo Partnership for Health and Wellness
April Wilhelm, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School

Empowering Parents for Wellness in Shelter (EMPOWER): Adapting and scaling a shelter-based health empowerment program for parenting youth experiencing homelessness

Christina Heineken Woodlee, MPA, Senior Director of Strategy and Partnership, Bridge for Youth
Janna Gewirtz O'Brien, MD, MPH, FAAP, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics

Digital Breast Cancer Champions: Increasing access to care for underserved communities

Benita Robinson, Sisters Standing up to Breast Cancer
David Haynes, PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute for Health Informatics
2020 - 2021

Participatory Theater to share learnings about living with Type 2 Diabetes while homeless

Maren Ward, Artistic Direction, zAmya Theater
Kate Vickery, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota

Implementation of Culturally Tailored Lung Cancer Screening In The Native American Community Clinic

Antony Stately, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, Native American Community Clinic
Shannon (Fahey) Klingelhutz, MS, Chief Information Officer, Native American Community Clinic
Abbie Begnaud, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine, Department of Medicine 

Utilizing traditional tobacco to reframe what tobacco is and is not to promote commercial smoking cessation in American Indians

Dylan Jennings (Bizhikiins), Tribal Council member, Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians
Dana Mowls Carroll, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, and Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota
Dorothy Hatsukami, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Minnesota, and Associate Director of Cancer Prevention and Control, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota

Un poco de luz: Learning from cervical cancer screening among uninsured Hispanics in Minnesota

Rodolfo Gutierrez, PhD, Executive Director, Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER)
Gabriela Bustamante Callejas, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in Health Disparities Research, University of Minnesota Medical School
2019 - 2020

Activating Nature Play to Reduce Cancer Disparities in Red Wing

Erin Aadalen, Live Healthy Red Wing
Cathy Jordan, PhD, Institute on the Environment, Department of Pediatrics

The African Immigrant Memory Loss Assessment Project 

Wynfred Russell, African Career, Education & Resources, Inc. (ACER)
Joseph E. Gaugler, PhD, Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health

2018 - 2019

Choosing Life in the Black Community, Achieving the Dream: A Learned Self-Management Program for Trauma

Alfred Babington-Johnson, Stairstep Foundation
Jonathan Miller, PhD, Family Medicine and Community Health

Stress Exposure, Acculturation, and Cancer Screening in East African Men and Women

Jemal Tufe, Oromo Community of Minnesota
Motohiro Nakajima, PhD, Family Medicine & Behavioral Health
Mustafa al’Absi, PhD, Family Medicine & Behavioral Health

Reading for Health: Reducing Cancer Screening Disparities Through Addressing Health Literacy in the Somali Community

Imam Sharif Mohamed, Islamic Civil Society of America
Rebekah Pratt, PhD, Family Medicine & Community Health

2017 - 2018

Healing Project

Rev. Alika Galloway, Liberty Community Church (formerly Kwanzaa Community Presbyterian Church)
Ross VeLure Roholt, PhD, MSW, School of Social Work, UMN College of Education & Human Development
Lauren Martin, Robert J. Jones Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC)

Increasing HPV vaccination in American Indian health systems through a tailored toolkit

Kristine Rhodes, MPH, American Indian Cancer Foundation
Annie-Laurie McRee, DrPH, General Pediatrics & Adolescent Health, Department of Pediatrics, UMN Medical School