| Project |
Contact |
Funding Agency |
Department |
MSM
UAB Partnership: Cancer Outreach Program
This program provides training to lay health workers and
promotes mammography. |
D. Blumenthal
G. MCray |
National
Cancer Institute |
CHPM |
| |
Prevention
Research Center
Violence
Prevention
Tests violence prevention intervention in Turner Middle
School. Population: African American inner-city middle
school students. |
J. Griffin |
Hamilton
Fish Institute
(US Department of Justice) |
CHPM |
| |
Cancer Information
Service
This partnership program provides technical assistance
to groups reaching minority and medically underserved
audiences. Priority areas are: breast, cervical cancer,
tobacco, clinical trials education, and general cancer
education to special populations. |
B. Taylor
C. Marshall |
National
Cancer Institute(Duke University subcontract) |
CHPM |
| |
Health Promotion
Resource Center
Cooperative Regional
Prevention Resource Center (CRPRC)
A substance abuse prevention program in Southwest (SW)
Georgia. The Program provides clearinghouse services,
training, technical assistance, information dissemination,
and has educational programs in schools. Population: Southwest
and West Central (WC) Georgia residents. N=2000Evaluation
and technical assistance services are provided for prevention
providers contracted by the Metro MHDDAD Regional Office
(DeKalb, Fulton, Clayton, Rockdal, Newton and Gwinnett).
Population: N= 40 |
M. Langley |
Center
for Substance Abuse Treatment |
CHPM |
| |
Health Promotion
Resource Center
West
Central Georgia Practice Improvement Collaborative: Sixteen16-county
consortium of providers, researchers, educators, and others
to bridge the gap between researchers and providers of
substance abuse services. N= 2000 |
M. Langley |
Center
for Substance Abuse Treatment |
CHPM |
| |
Health Promotion
Resource Center
21st Century Choices:
A program to establish three 21st Century Community
Learning Centers in three West Central Georgia
rural counties: Population: 1,360 students and their families.
N = 300 |
M. Langley |
Department
of Education |
CHPM |
| |
Health Promotion
Resource Center
21 Century Choices:
An abstinence education project for 120 elementary school
students in 3 rural counties. Population: 120 elementary
school students in 3 rural counties. N=300 |
M. Langley |
Office
of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention |
CHPM |
| |
MCH Summer
Youth Mentorship Program
Provides high school and undergraduate college students
with didactic and clinical experiences to enhance their
understanding of the health of minority children and families.
N= 12 |
T. Inyama |
Health
Resources and Services Administration |
Family Medicine |
| |
Teen Repeat
Pregnancy Prevention Project
Works with teen mothers to prevent repeat unwanted pregnancies.
N= |
J. Jones |
Unsponsored |
OB/GYN |
| |
| National
Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer II; Network
Project- National community campaign to heighten community
awareness of cancer among African Americans. Population:
Target cancers that disparately affect African Americans
such as breast, cervical prostate, colorectal, and lung.
Also looks at nutrition and exercise as it relates to
these cancers. |
J. Sheats |
National
Cancer Institute |
Office of the President |
| |
Centers for
Excellence on Health Disparities
Community Outreach and Information Component: Develops
community capacity to improve health and disseminates
information. |
D. Satcher
(K. Erwin Component Leader) |
NIH
Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities |
NCPC
CHPM |
| |
Teen Male Initiative
Multiple projects in HIV and violence prevention &
high-risk behavior intervention program: (1) Community
intervention: diversion, health education, youth development,
to get clients to (2) Young Men's Health Center: medical
care, psychosocial assessment, case management (3) community
referral: violence intervention, mentoring, youth development.
CTC N=4800 three combined sites, S.T.Y.L.E. N=200 |
D. Levine |
Substance
Abuse Mental Health Abuse |
Pediatrics |
| |
IMANI Project
#4
A pre-rite of passage program to reduce high-risk behavior
among African American youth between 9-19 years old. N=
1000 |
J. Griffin |
Substance
Abuse Mental Health Abuse |
Pediatrics |
| |
People Advocating
Disease Prevention (PADP#1)
Provide education & referral for HIV infected children
and their families. Population: Metropolitan Atlanta area
N=600 |
|
Ryan
White
GA DHR Contract |
Pediatrics |
| |
People of Color
Institute (PADP#2)
Provides pre/post release case management services for
incarcerated juvenile females at the Metropolitan Regional
Youth Detention Center, Atlanta. Population: Incarcerated
juvenile females at the Metropolitan Regional Youth Detention
Center, Atlanta N=600 |
|
Ryan
White
GA DHR Contract |
Pediatrics |
| |
Summer Science
Institute
Summer enrichment program to increase the number of African
American Males entering medical and science careers N=37
|
D. Levine |
Unsponsored |
|
| |
Less than A
Touch of Sugar: Diabetes Self-Care Project
Teaches self-help skills to seniors with diabetes in the
John O. Chiles high rise. Collaboration with West End
Medical Center. N= 68 |
Y. Hipps |
Private foundation,
Pharmaceutical company |
|
| |
Community Health
Quest in the AM on radio station WYZE, 1490 AM
Summer and weekend educational program for elementary
and middle school students. Population: Metropolitan Atlanta
elementary and middle school students N= 300 |
P. Johnson |
MSM |
Clinical
Research Center |
| |
Community Health
Fairs and Screenings:
Health fairs at churches and other sites that offer blood
pressure readings, diabetes screening, and other services
in conjunction with recruiting for clinical trials. |
P. Johnson |
MSM |
Clinical
Research Center |
| |
Grady High School Health Science Academy
In collaboration with the Emory Dept. of Emergency Medicine, MSM residents offer lecturers to educate Grady High School students on science topics. The topics are chosen by the high school students and the lectures occur once a month. |
N. Puri
A. Myrie
W. Landrum |
|
Internal Medicine |
| |
HIP Corps
Medical students do health fairs and community presentations. Objectives: educate the community about preventive health care, especially HIV/AIDS; provide screenings for common medical problems; educate medical students on community advocacy; strengthen the relationship between the community, the health care system and the medical school; strengthen medical student skills in addressing community groups
|
Yolanda Wimberly, MD |
Dept of Pediatrics |
Pediatrics |
| |
