NIH Announces the Funding of The Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities

NIH Announces Ten Awards for Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities

The National Cancer Institute (NCI); the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI); and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are partnering to provide funds to continue the Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD) program. This program responds to a strategic priority at the NIH to address disparities and inequities in the prevalence and outcomes of several diseases, particularly cancer and heart disease. The CPHHD program requires transdisciplinary research involving social, behavioral, biological, and genetic research to improve knowledge of the causes of health disparities and devise effective methods of preventing, diagnosing and treating disease and promoting health. Some of the previously funded Centers will continue to be supported, while others are new Centers. The applications that were selected for funding were those that received the top scores during NIH peer review.

List of Funded Centers

National Cancer Institute

• University of Washington
  Contact PI: Dedra Buchwald, MD
• Ohio State University
  Contact PI: Electra Paskett, PhD
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  Contact PI: Beti Thompson, PhD
• University of Illinois Chicago
  Contact PI: Richard Warnecke, PhD
• Harvard University
  Contact PI: David Williams, PhD

National Heart Lung and Blood Institute

• University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  Center Director: Alice Ammerman, DrPH
• Johns Hopkins University
  Center Director: Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH, FACP
• University of California Los Angeles
  Center Director: Alex Ortega, PhD
• Rush University Medical Center
  Center Director: Lynda Powell, PhD
• Northeastern University
  Center Director: Katherine Tucker, PhD

Previously funded centers