September 2023
Interviews with our Health Inequities Research Grant Program awardees are now available! You can view them all HERE.
August 2022
The Breast Cancer Health Inequities Research Program, sponsored by Gilead Sciences, is open for applications. Three $50,000 grants will be awarded to research studies that use data to identify metrics, outcome measures, or payment models that can be used to encourage practice or policy change that decrease inequity in breast cancer screening, treatment, and outcomes. Research is not intended to be merely descriptive, but to identify inequities with breast cancer care and propose data-driven solutions.
View the PTEC press release
View the Call for Proposals
June 2022
The PTEC Health Inequities Research Grant program is open for applications. Three $50,000 grant will be awarded to research teams that support studies that identify metrics, outcome measures, or payment models that can be used to increase equity in the U.S.healthcare system. Areas of focus are cardiovascular disease, metabolic disease, vaccination, and cancer. Visit the Call for Proposals for more information.
May 2022
Minnesota Community Measurement produced a comprehensive report on their PTEC-funded project entitled “Leveraging Data to Understand and Address Disparities in Vascular and Diabetes Care.” The report, available on the MNCM website, is available for free download.
The Minnesota Community Measurement team has released a webinar featuring the results from a study funded by PTEC. The webinar is available to the public and downloadable slides are also available. Click here to download the slides.
November 2021
See the press release from AcademyHealth announcing the award of grants and data access to four teams investigating the role of metrics and outcome measures on reducing health inequities. The research teams include:
A team led by Dr. Melissa Chinchilla of AltaMed, a Los Angeles-based federally qualified health center, is focusing on the Latinx population, a group that is at higher risk for both diabetes and housing instability.
A team led by Dr. Andrew Anderson and colleagues from Tulane University, Columbia and University of California San Francisco seek to improve the measurement of health care equity. To do this, they will validate a prototype known as the Health Equity Index (HEI).
The Minnesota Community Measurement team, led by Julie Sonier, will examine inequities in vascular and diabetes care to identify drivers of variation in outcomes for Black, Latinx, Asian, and Native American communities in Minnesota.
A team led by Dr. Stephen Crystal and colleagues from Rutgers University will consider how community and patient level characteristics and common comorbidities, such as opioid use disorder and severe mental illness, affect care and consider how care delivery could be modified.
Visit the AcademyHealth website to learn more.