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HIV
Risk Reduction | Cancer
Network | Colorectal
Cancer Screening
Southern
HIV/AIDS Initiative | Community
Technology | Reach
2010
Stroke
Prevention/Intervention | Community
Environment Empowerment
Violence
Prevention Coalition | Healthy
Marriage Initiative
Smoking
Prevention and Cessation Counseling
HIV/AIDS Risk Reduction Among Heterosexually Active
African American Men and Women: A Risk Reduction Prevention
Intervention
Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Principal Investigator: Elleen M. Yancey, PhD
The primary focus of this project is: a) to
identify the key behavior and belief variables that are significant
determinants of high risk HIV behavior among African American men
and women residing in the coalition communities of the Morehouse
School of Medicine Prevention Research Center, and b) to develop and
implement a HIV risk reduction intervention that is culture and
gender sensitive to African American men and women within these
communities.
Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Principal Investigator: Daniel Blumenthal, MD, MPH
Co-Principal Investigator: Lee Caplan, MD, MPH, PhD
The goals of this project are threefold:
a) to create a subregional infrastructure of academic institutions,
public agencies, and communities to conduct community-based
participatory research and ethnic disparities in cancer between
African Americans, other minority populations, and the U.S.
white population; b) develop and implement a community-based
research agenda aimed at addressing gaps in the Guide to Community
Preventive Service relevant to reducing and eliminating cancer
disparities; and c) collaborate with other members of the CPCRN to
improve cancer prevention in AfricanAmerican and other minority
communities. For additional information contact the website at:
http://www.cpcrn.org/
Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Principal Investigator: Daniel Blumenthal, MD,
MPH
Co-Principal Investigator: Selina Smith, PhD
The
objective of this study is to increase colorectal cancer screening
rates among African Americans by evaluating the effects of education
on the knowledge, attitude, and beliefs of this ethnic group as it
relates to screening patterns. Participants are African American
males and females, age 50 and older, who have not previously been
screened for colorectal cancer. We are introducing this study in
both clinical and community settings for qualifying persons who
reside in Cobb, Clayton, DeKalb, Fulton, and Gwinnett counties. All
persons recruited will be randomly assigned by site into one of four
groups. The educational approaches will vary with each group.
An assessment of the effectiveness of these interventions will be
done through previously validated survey instruments. It is
anticipated that one of the methods will have national implications
in promoting increased screening habits among this ethnic group.
Funder: Pfizer
Foundation, Inc.
Principal Investigator: Elleen M. Yancey,
PhD
The overall objective of this evaluation
plan is to determine the extent to which Southern HIV/AIDS
Prevention Initiative grantees of Pfizer have attained their project
goals and objectives based on the Pfizer's logic model target
outcomes. The evaluation plan: a) assists the grantees in clarifying
and/or establishing measurable performance indicators, b) assists
the Pfizer grantees in defining or enhancing their intervention
implementation, and c) assists the Pfizer Foundation in assessing
the cross-site effectiveness of the initiative.
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Principal
Investigator: Marion Howard, PhD
The Morehouse School of Medicine Prevention
Research Center, in cooperation with the Emory University School of
Medicine and the Grady Health System, has established a Community
Technology Center dispersed in three sites: a) a community center in
the area targeted by the Prevention Research Center, b) Hughes
Spalding Children's Hospital (the Young Men's Clinic), and c) Grady
Memorial Hospital (the Teen Services Clinic). The two hospitals
serve the indigent population in the two most populated counties in
Georgia,DeKalb and Fulton Counties. Their catchment area encompasses
the PRC's target communities.
The broad goal of the Community Technology
Center (CTC) project is to lessen the "digital divide" by making
educational technology available to indigent populations. A narrower
goal is to demonstrate to both the indigent consumers and health
care systems that hospital-based Community Technology Centers can
enable populations to better educate themselves about their own
health and the health of their children.
Objectives of the project are: a) to
demonstrate that low-income youth attending teen clinic sties, and
any accompanying parents, will be willing to learn more about using
computers and accessing information; b) to demonstrate that once
given computer knowledge and skills, youth and their accompanying
parents will actually use the computers and Internet service
provided at the teen clinic sites; c) to demonstrate that use of
computers and Internet access provided at the teen clinic sites will
prove effective in increasing the knowledge of low-income youth and
their parents about health, as well as meeting educational needs in
other areas; d) to demonstrate that parents who have had positive
experiences with personally gathering information through health
site computers, watching their children gather information,
or use the computers in other ways, will be motivated to obtain a
computer for home use or will help their child regularly access
computers; e) to demonstrate that implementation of the CTC sites,
over a three-year period, actually benefits the Health System and
their indigent populations in such a way as to warrant Center
maintenance and/or expansion to other sites throughout both
hospitals; f) to demonstrate that community members who have been
assisted in learning how to gather information on the Internet and
write proposals will actually produce one or more proposals to
benefit the health of the community.
Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Principal Investigator: Steven R. Katkowski, MD
REACH For Wellness is a cardiovascular disease
prevention coalition sponsored by the Fulton County Department of
Health and Wellness in collaboration with the PRC.
Mission. To serve as a catalyst for
cardiovascular wellness while establishing health equity and general
well-being through collaborative planning, advocacy, empowerment,
community action, and systems change.
Coalition members include
representatives from religious institutions, community groups,
health-related organizations, colleges, and universities. Program
goals include stimulating knowledge of the risk factors and warning
signs for heart disease and stroke.
• Knowledge of healthy food choices and
healthy meal preparation
• Physical activity
• Smoke-free
lifestyles and environments
• Personal empowerment and
enrichment
• Public policy, environmental improvements, and
social marketing
The coalition teaches the public using lessons
developed for the community to help promote healthy lifestyles.
Services are provided in public housing communities, neighborhood
meeting places, health centers, religious institutions, barbershops,
beauty shops, and grocery stores.
Cardiovascular Wellness Centers are being
established in places of worship, barbershops and beauty shops.
Barbers, beauticians, and church volunteers will be trained to
accurately measure and monitor blood pressures with equipment
supplied by the program. Health educational materials will be
available for participants, at no cost. Exercise equipment will be
placed in selected centers to encourage fitness. Cooking
demonstrations and nutritional presentations will also be offered.
Support groups for men and women will be held at various locations.
Subcontracts to assist the Fulton County
Department of Health and Wellness have been awarded to the
Association of Black Cardiologists, Inc., Association of Black
Psychologists, Lakewood Redevelopment Corporation, Sisters Action
Team, Divine Universal Sisterhood, Morehouse School of Medicine,
Emory University, and Rollins School of Public Health.
Funder: National Institutes of Health (NINDS, NHLBI, NCRR)
Principal Investigator: David Satcher, MD, PhD
Core Director:
Elleen M. Yancey, PhD
The long-term goals of this research
program are to identify reasons for racial and geographic
disparities related to stroke and cerebrovascular disease in the
United States and to establish prevention/intervention programs that
will eliminate health disparities. SPIRP seeks to augment and
enhance the stroke research capabilities of faculty at the Morehouse
School of Medicine and encourage innovative and effective research
strategies to reduce the burden of stroke in populations
historically at risk for this disease. This program is developing
multi-disciplinary partnerships with regional, private, and
governmental institutions in the areas of stroke research, minority
stroke research training and career development, and effective
stroke prevention/intervention outreach to urban and rural
AfricanAmerican communities.
Funder: Morehouse School of Medicine Prevention Research
Center
Coordinator: Richard Bright, MEd, MDiv
The MCEEI is a project to assist in the health
advocacy empowerment of communities negatively affected by
environmental health factors. Goals: a) To assist communities to
become empowered to recognize conditions that cause environmental
health problems, and b) to educate and train community leaders to
develop methods to avert or eliminate these conditions. Objectives:
a) To determine the nature and source of pollution, e.g. spills, air
emission, improperly designed structures; b) to provide community
environmental health education; c) to teach community leaders
community development principles; and d) to assist organization of
communities into proactive groups and coalitions to address negative
environmental health conditions. The project consists of three
programs: The South Atlanta Redevelopment Corporation (SARC) Rodent
Control Project, The Atlanta Transportation Environmental Coalition
Project (ATEC), and Civic Environmental Health Education Project
(CEHE).
Funder: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention
Principal Investigator: James Griffin, PhD
Morehouse School of Medicine participates
as a member institution of the Hamilton Fish National Institute on
School Violence as a subcontractor to George Washington University
(GWU). The Turner Safe School Project is an academically focused
violence prevention initiative conducted in partnership between
faculty and staff at Henry McNeal Turner Middle School in Atlanta,
Georgia. This project supports student academic performance in the
areas of reading, writing, arithmetic, and attendance. Project goals
include a) linkage of academic performance to cognitive behavioral
skills through classroom instruction in curriculum- based violence
prevention; b) support of deployment of a school-wide professional
development system that improves instructional methods, reinforces
effective faculty teaching methods, bolsters classroom management,
practices and improves student pro-social skills for the prevention
of violence and precursors to violence and; c) deployment of a wide
array of faculty, staff, and partner initiated activities that
improve safety and encourage the adoption of a safe school
environment and a nonviolent set of organizational norms.
WEBSITE: http://web.msm.edu/vpc/index.htm
Funder: Administration for Children and
Families
Principal Investigator: Elleen M. Yancey, PhD
The African American Healthy Marriage
Initiative is a component of the Administration for Children and
FamiliesHealthy Marriage Initiative. The Initiative specifically
promotes a culturally competent strategy for fostering healthy
marriage and responsible fatherhood, improving child well-being, and
strengthening families within the African American community. The
project's goal is to produce the African American Healthy Marriage
Initiative background paper, which will highlight promising
approaches and models for promoting healthy marriages in African
American communities as identified in the literature from a full
spectrum of social and health science disciplines.
Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Principal
Investigator: Daniel S. Blumenthal, MD, MPH
Co-investigators:
Linda Pederson, PhD, Centers for Disease Control &
Prevention G.E.A. , Alan Dever, PhD, Mercer University School of
Medicine
This project pursues the following objectives: (1)
To develop a tutorial on counseling patients on smoking
cessation and prevention in a self-directed computer-based format.
(2) To survey Morehouse and Mercer students to determine their
knowledge, attitudes, and skills regarding the health effects of
smoking and environmental tobacco smoke, smoking cessation
counseling, and management of patients who smoke (3) To test the
intervention with medical students at Morehouse and Mercer
University Schools of Medicine to determine the effectiveness of the
tutorial in improving knowledge and skills related to knowledge,
attitudes, and skills. The tutorial has been
completed and is available for public use at http://nosmoking.msm.edu/. Results of the project
will be published in an upcoming tobacco-themed issue of Drug
and Alcohol Revue.
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