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Cal State San Bernardino has been awarded a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to create a center to promote research and training on health inequities found among differing racial, economic and ethnic groups in the United States.
The five-year grant comes from the NIH-sponsored National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities and is part of a "research infrastructure in minority institutions" (RIMI) program. It is designed to help minority-serving universities build innovative research programs aimed at reducing health inequalities among racial and ethnic groups and among people living below the poverty line.
The specific aims of the RIMI program at Cal State San Bernardino will be to:
-Create a center to advance faculty research, student research training and secure grants for health disparities research;
-Implement and support a mentorship and training program to accelerate CSUSB faculty research through the involvement of nationally recognized health disparities scientists from other universities;
-Provide research funding and time for faculty to develop competitive and integrated research programs with training opportunities for students;
-Establish a CSUSB graduate student scholarship program in health disparities to provide research training for traditionally under-represented minority students;
-Develop a set of shared resources for CSUSB faculty and students, including enhanced video conferencing and computer-based communication facilities, bio-behavioral and human performance networked laboratories and a center for promoting the best clinical interventions with young children.
Funding for this project was made possible by 1P20MD002722-01 from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities.