Community and Public Health Programs
Current Grants
Building Bridges, Building Knowledge, Building Health Coalition
Emilio Carrillo, M.D., Co-PI
Minority Health Community Partnerships, New York State Department of Health
2/2006-2/2011
Project funded to create a social health movement among diabetes patients and
families in northern Manhattan to understand and utilize preventive health interventions associated with diabetes and obesity and reduce ethnic disparities by 2011.
Clinton Global Initiative for a Translational Research Center for Viral Hepatitis
Ann Beeder, M.D., Andrew H. Talal, M.D., Co-PIs
Jill Iscol, Ed.D., IF Hummingbird Foundation
The objectives of this 2-year grant are to implement treatment algorithms for viral hepatitis that could serve as a model for resource poor areas ranging from inner cities in the United States to developing countries with limited health care infrastructure, and to create a world-class biomedical translational research facility devoted to viral hepatitis to facilitate the rapid validation of novel prognostic and treatment biomarkers that can be used to change patient management. Approximately 300 methadone-maintained patients at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital will be screened for viral hepatitis. Those who show signs of having been exposed to viral hepatitis will be evaluated to assess disease severity. Treatment will be prescribed as indicated. Treated patients will have blood obtained for measure of potentially promising biomarkers of treatment outcome.
Center of Excellence in Health Disparities Research
Carla Boutin-Foster, M.D., M.S., PI
National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD)
07/25/09 – 05/31/14
This is an application to establish a Comprehensive Center of Excellence in Disparities Research and Community Engagement (CEDREC) as a consortium between Weill Cornell Medical College, Hunter College School of Nursing-City University of New York, Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, and the Center for Healthful Behavior Change at New York University School of Medicine.
Cost-effectiveness of Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Dependence
Ann Beeder, M.D., Co-Investigator (In collaboration with Bruce Schackman, Ph.D. [PI])
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
10/01/07-03/31/10
The objective of this project is to develop and use a cost-effectiveness computer simulation model of opioid dependence treatment in the U.S. to evaluate buprenorphine maintenance treatment compared to methadone maintenance treatment and no treatment options, identify how costs and benefits are allocated among government or health insurance payers and patients, and determine the impact of regulatory barriers on cost-effectiveness results.
Integrase-Defective Lentiviral Based Influenza Vaccines
Mirella Salvatore, M.D., PI
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/National Institutes of Health
7/16/2009-6/30/2011
The objective of this study is to develop a non-integrating lentiviral vector in the creation of a vaccine for influenza. The researchers with test the vector using the influenza virus on mouse models.
Redes en Acción: National Latino Cancer Research Network - Breast and Colorectal Cancer
Emilio Carrillo, M.D. (Subcontract with Baylor College of Medicine. P.I.: Amelie Ramirez, Dr.P.H.)
National Cancer Institute
4/1/2005-3/31/2010
Cancer prevention among Latina Women
