2009 Planning Grants in Health Disparities Research Poster Session and Awards

On October 6, 2009 the University of Minnesota Medical School's Program in Health Disparities Research and funding partners celebrated the awarding of the 2009 Planning Grants in Health Disparities Research at the Minneapolis Urban League. Grantees from earlier years and PHDR members presented research posters on their findings and future plans, and this year's research teams presented their research proposals and objectives to an audience of community members, academic faculty, researchers, and various community organizations.

The 2009 awardees are:

• Cari Clark, Department of Medicine
  Jeannette Raymond, Family and Children's Services
  A Community-University Partnership to Examine Family Violence in the African American Community of North Minneapolis
   
• Mark Yeazel/ Hee Lee, Family Medicine and Community Health/ School of Social Work
  Marie Tran, Vietnamese Social Services of Minnesota
  Motivating Underserved Vietnamese Americans to Obtain Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Culturally Tailored Video-Based Intervention
   
• Tai Mendenhall, Family Medicine and Community Health
  Thomas Yang, Association for the Advancement of Hmong Women in Minnesota
  Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in the Hmong Community: Tackling an Old Problem in a New Way
   
• Jamie Stang, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
  Rosa de la Torre and Maria Navas, La Clinica
  Improving Nutrition and Physical Activity among Latino Youth
   
• Bean Robinson, Family Medicine and Community Health
  Fatima Jama and Amira Ahmed, Midwest Community Development
  Opening Pandora's Box: Somali Women, Sexuality, and HIV/ STD Prevention