Dr. Monica Ramirez-Andreotta Awarded an RO1 Grant!
Aug. 27, 2024
Dr. Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta, UA SRC Research Translation Core Principal Investigator, just got awarded a new Research Program Grant (R01-ES036236) by the National Institute of Health (NIH). The R01 is the original and historically oldest grant mechanism used by NIH and provides support for health-related research and development based on the mission of the NIH.
The title of the grant is “Disentangling the role of culture, life stage, and information design to facilitate equity in data report back.” Dr. Joe Hoover (UA Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science) is the Co-I and other significant contributors are Chris Casillas from Regenerating Sonora, Inc., Spencer Wells from Cleveland Lead Advocates for Safe Housing, and Sanlyn Buxner (UA Research Professor of Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies) who will serve as the project’s Evaluator.
The project goal is to create and pilot a national model of report back that engages diverse rural and urban Environmental Justice (EJ) communities to ensure that responsible report back of research results (RBRR) reaches all populations in a manner tailored to their individual needs, including culture, life stage, language, and design. Rooted in bioethics, the program focuses on how to report back social determinants of health and soil and dust data in rural and urban communities that are disproportionately impacted by pollution.
The specific aims of this proposal include:
- Using an equity-centered community design approach to develop different design types and identify what influences preferred report back strategies.
- Within the context of specific populations (cultural identity) and groups (life stage), elucidate key data and environmental health literacy (D/EHL) learning outcomes by design type.
- Identify, evaluate, and mitigate any possible unintentional consequences of environmental health report back by working with both rural and urban EJ communities.
- Develop capacity building tools for RBRR, train knowledge mediators/brokers and evaluate the efficacy of these tools to support the role of “environmental counselors.”
Congratulations Dr. Ramírez-Andreotta!!