American Indian or Alaska Native
Vale+Tu Salud: Corner-Based Randomized Trial to Test a Latino Day Laborer Program Adapted To Prevent COVID-19
Based on the injury risk-reduction program Vales+Tu (You Are Worth More) that has been successfully tested among Latino Day Laborers, the Vale+Tu Salud (Your Health is Worth More) study will adapt its evidence-based strategies to promote group problem solving and a plan to implement together COVID-19 mitigation strategies
Intensifying Community Referrals for Health: The SINCERE Intervention to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities
The objective of this study is to determine whether community service use for those with social needs improves general and COVID-related health outcomes, and whether random assignment to intensive follow-up and collaborative goal setting helps overcome barriers to community service use.
Social Media Intervention to Promote Smoking Treatment Utilization and Cessation among Alaska Native Smokers
Virtual options, such as social media, hold promise as sustainable and scalable intervention strategies to promote access to smoking cessation treatment among AN people, and other groups who experience a disproportionate burden of tobacco-related morbidity/mortality.
Leveraging Maps and Computer Vision to Support Indoor Navigation for Blind Travelers
COVID-19 has made traveling as a blind or visually impaired person much riskier and more difficult than before the pandemic. As a result, people with visual impairments may limit their essential travel such as trips to the doctor’s office, the pharmacy and grocery shopping and walks for exercise or leisure.
Improving Health Outcomes for an Aging Population
This project supplements an ongoing program project on “Improving Health Outcomes for an Aging Population” by analyzing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated economic downturn on population health and mortality.