RESEARCH/CFP

The Salud America! Pilot Awardees

In late 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, through Salud America!, issued a call for proposals (CFP) to provide support for research proposals with the potential to inform policy-makers, community leaders and others who are working to prevent and reduce childhood obesity in Latino communities. You can view the CFP here.

RWJF funded 20 pilot grants of up to $75,000 each for up to 24 months.

The grantees are:

• Dr. Shari Barkin, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Dr. Cristina Barroso, University of Texas School of Public Health, Brownsville
• Dr. Alexy Arauz Boudreau, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Dr. Dina Castro, University of North Carolina
• Dr. Dharma Cortes, Mauricio Gaston Institute, The University of Massachusetts Boston
• Dr. Robert W. Dudley, Community Health Center, Inc., Connecticut
• Dr. Claudia L. Galindo, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Dr. Zan Gao, University of Utah
• Dr. Meizi He, University of Texas at San Antonio
• Dr. Harris Huberman, The State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center
• Dr. Rebecca London, Stanford University School of Education
• Dr. Nelda Mier, Texas A&M Health Science Center
• Dr. Carmen Nevarez, Public Health Institute, California
• Dr. Norma Olvera, University of Houston
• Dr. Javier Rosado, Florida State University
• Dr. Emma Sanchez, University of California, San Francisco
• Dr. Monika Stodolska, University of Illinois
• Dr. Myriam E. Torres, University of South Carolina Research Foundation
• Dr. Miriam Y. Vega, Latino Commission on AIDS, New York
• Dr. Angela R. Wiley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Click on the names of the grantees to learn more about them and their pilot research projects.

Also, please feel free to review the Delphi Survey Summary Report, which details the results of the program’s recent survey that identified the research priorities that guided the funding of these projects. For additional information about the program, please refer to the Salud America! frequently asked questions.

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