Active NIH-Funded Projects
ASPIRE: Association of the Sugary Drink Excise Tax Policy and diabetes and associated cardiometabolic risk biomarkers in primary care patients
Funder: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/NIH/DHHS
This study evaluates the impact of SSB excise taxes on cardiovascular risk biomarkers in Latino patients, examining how individual-level factors moderate these effects in municipalities with such taxes.
HUO: Healthcare utilization and outcomes across the cancer care continuum: Understanding the impact of social risk factors and screening among Latino patients
Funder: National Cancer Institute
This study studies the relationship between social risks, such as transportation difficulties and housing challenges, and social risk screening with cancer outcomes among Latino patients who receive care at community health clinics across the United States.
Quality and Effective care for Latino Adults with asthma in community health centers
Funder: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
These study constitute a robust, rigorous, longitudinal, and multi-level study of healthcare disparities in adult asthma. The findings from this study will enable health care providers to better tailor clinic workflows and programs to improve asthma care quality in low-income adults and allow the development of clinic- and population-level interventions to lessen asthma morbidity.
FRONTIERS: Foreign-Born Latinos Cancer Screening
Funder: National Cancer Institute
This study will use electronic health record in order provide policy makers and healthcare providers better information about what cancer prevention services their Latino patients or community members are most at risk for underutilizing.
E-TREAT: Evaluation of Telemedicine for diabetes and hypertension care in Latinos
Funder: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
This timely and innovative study will evaluate OCHIN’s widespread telemedicine rollout mitigated inequities in treatment and management of diabetes and hypertension among Latinos.
Other Funded Projects
The Population health research for the elimination of health care inequity in all Latinos (PRIMER) center
Funder: OHSU Faculty Excellence and Innovation Award from the Silver Family Innovation Fund
This project creates the PRIMER Center, which has a vision to end inequity in the healthcare prevention, treatment and management of common health conditions among Latinos in Oregon and across the United States (US).
Completed Funded Projects
The Primary Care Medical Home and Preventive Service Use in Latino Immigrants
Funder: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
This project is utilizing electronic health records to evaluate preventive services utilization of low-income Latinos, as compared to non-Hispanic Whites in community health centers in Oregon by race, ethnicity, preferred language, and immigration status.
PAST-DUE (Prevention and Social Determinants: Disparities and Utilization in Latino Elders)
Funder: National Institute on Aging
This study proposes to understand disparities in preventive service utilization over time between older Latino adults and non-Hispanic White adults and which social determinants of health impact this utilization most strongly.
BACKGROUND: Better Asthma Care in Kids-Geographic Social Determinants Data to Understand Disparities
Funder: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
This study proposes to help inform our understanding of disparities in asthma care, evaluate which social determinants affect utilization and disparities, and determine which of these may do so most significantly over time.
Collaborative Projects
ALL-IN: Evaluate health insurance expansion on cancer preventive care among Latino populations
PI: Nathalie Huguet, PhD
Funder: American Cancer Society
This study proposes to evaluate the impact of the CA, IL, and OR Medicaid eligibility amendments on access to care and receipt of cancer preventive care among socioeconomically disadvantaged patients while taking into account a variety of social determinants of health.
Social and Political Determinants of Health and Health Services Use of US Immigrant Children
PI: Ye Ji Kim, PhD
Funders: National Heart Lung and Blood Institute; National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
The overall goal of this dissertation was to evaluate and examine the relationships between social determinants at multiple levels – including the individual level, neighborhood level, and state policy level – with the health and health services use of US immigrant children.
The impact of sanctuary policies on cardiovascular risk factor screening among adult immigrants in the US
PI: Danielle M. Crookes, DrPH
Funder: Health Equity Scholars for Action; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The research examines how sociopolitical factors, including state and local policies, affect cardiovascular disease risk factors and the receipt of recommended CVD risk factor preventive and monitoring care.