Gabriela Buccini and Melva Thompson-Robinson (both Public Health) received a $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Common Fund within the office of the director for a five-year project entitled "Pathways to integrate maternal-child health and nutrition interventions to transform equity and human potential."
It was awarded under the funding opportunity announcement for , which aims to fund innovative and collaborative projects to produce a significant impact in preventing, reducing, or eliminating health disparities and advancing health equity.
Buccini and Thompson-Robinson will collaborate with state partners as well as community partners within the West Las Vegas Promise Neighborhood to develop a system-level intervention to integrate maternal-child health and nutrition to reduce food insecurity levels and its harmful health consequences among maternal-child dyads living in this historically racial/ethnic marginalized community.
UNLV co-investigators include Manoj Sharma, Timothy Grigsby, Jason Flatt from the department of environmental and occupational health as well as Dodds Simangan, Oriaku Kas-Osoka, and Nora Doyle from the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV.
View the NIH press release .
