Groups Receive Grants For Minority Health Efforts; Spanish-Language Film Aims To Teach Catholic Hispanics About HIV

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Article Date: 10 Dec 2007 - 10:00 PDT

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California State University-San Bernardino: The university is using a $4 million, five-year grant from NIH to establish a program promoting research and training on racial and ethnic health disparities. The grant will help support scholarships for minorities and other students who are interested in doing doctoral-level research into health disparities (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, 12/1).

Hampton University: The National Cancer Institute has given Hampton University in Virginia a $440,000 grant to help increase the number of minority students working on cancer research, hoping to reduce cancer disparities among minorities. The university will use the grant to conduct research and add classes to its curriculum (Young, Virginian-Pilot, 12/5).

Journalist workshop: The California Wellness Foundation, the University of California-Los Angeles Office of Media Relations and the Los Angeles Chapter of the California Chicano News Media Association are sponsoring a workshop about Hispanic health needs on Saturday. Speakers, including Los Angeles Times reporter Charles Ornstein and Fox11 News producer Gerri Shaftel, will talk about health stories they have done (UCLA release, 12/3).

Regional Medical Center at Memphis: The hospital has received a $1 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support a three-year-old language program. The program consists of on-site medical interpreters, bilingual staff members and technology-based interpretation services (Memphis Business Journal, 12/3).

Spanish-language HIV film: Our Lady of Guadalupe Chapel in Des Plaines, Ill., on Sunday hosted the inaugural viewing of a Spanish-language educational film on HIV/AIDS. The film is targeted toward Hispanic Catholics and aims to educate and explain HIV/AIDS and inspire a response to the disease. The Chicago archdiocese and Catholic Charities produced the film, which, along with Spanish-language pamphlets, will be distributed to 148 parishes serving large Hispanic populations (Malone, Chicago Tribune, 12/3).

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: SAMSHA on Nov. 30 announced technical and financial support for the Native American Center for Excellence, Prevention Technical Assistance Resource Center. The center will promote substance use prevention programs in American Indian communities in the U.S. and serve as a repository for information on effective strategies and services to prevent substance abuse and related conditions (SAMSHA release, 11/30).

University of South Alabama: The university's Center for Healthy Communities has received a five-year, $7.3 million grant from NIH to continue research that aims to address disparities among community members. The grant renews an earlier award and establishes the university as a Center of Excellence Partnerships, Outreach and Research Training in Health Disparities. With the grant, the university will continue to work with community groups and health care leaders to create effective, culturally appropriate and community-based health initiatives for minorities in the area. The university will use the grant money to examine services in nontraditional settings, such as churches, and to assess community members' satisfaction with their care providers (Chapman, Baldwin County Now, 12/2).

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