Health
| Title: | Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH 2010) |
| Investigator: | Aida Giachello |
| Funding Sources: | Center for Disease Control |
| Start/End Dates: | September 2002-September 2003 |
| Description: | Chicago’s Midwest Latino Health Research, Training and Policy Center, in collaboration with key community partners, established the Chicago Southside Community Action Coalition in 1999-2000 to mobilize primarily African American and Hispanic communities around diabetes prevention and control; engage in community capacity building; conduct a series of assessments to document health disparities and to establish baselines for community interventions; engage in community forums to gather and disseminate information; and develop an action plan. The action plan is currently being implemented with the goals of identifying individuals in targeted communities with diabetes and those at risk of developing diabetes; developing a centralized diabetes information system in hospitals and clinics; and improving the quality of diabetes care by establishing community self-care resource enters that promote health maintenance and health promotion activities and diabetes self-management education. |
| Title: | Nebraska Health and Human Services Minority Behavioral Risk Factor Survey |
| Investigator: | Aida Giachello, Principal Investigator |
| Funding Sources: | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| Start/End Dates: | January 2003-December 2003 |
| Description: | The Midwest Latino Research Center will collect data on behavioral risk factors of minority populations in five counties in Nebraska and conduct workshops and training sessions that address health risk trends among minority communities. |
| Title: | Dulce Corazon Project |
| Investigator: | Aida Giachello, Principal Investigator |
| Funding Sources: | Illinois Department of Public Health |
| Start/End Dates: | July 2002-June 2003 |
| Description: | Dulce Corazon is dedicated to promoting cardiovascular health among Latina women in the Chicago area through outreach and training. |
| Title: | Redes en Action |
| Investigator: | Aida Giachello, Principal Investigator |
| Funding Sources: | National Cancer Institute; Baylor College of Medicine |
| Start/End Dates: | September 1999-September 2004 |
| Description: | This five-year program is aimed at developing a broad-based coalition of academic institutions, cancer research centers, community-based organizations and federal partners to foster a national infrastructure for Hispanics cancer prevention and control. The Hispanic/Latino cancer network is particularly concerned with addressing breast, cervical, lung and prostate cancers. The network is also committed to recruiting and training Latino cancer researchers as well as engaged in influencing public policy to ensure access to early detection and treatment of cancer among minority populations. |
| Title: | Stress Reduction and Hypertension in Mexican Americans |
| Investigator: | Aida Giachello, Principal Investigator |
| Funding Sources: | Maharishi University of Management |
| Start/End Dates: | September 2003- |
| Description: | Cardio-vascular intervention. Hypertensive Mexican American subjects who are taught Transcendental Meditation will be compared to subjects who receive a standard health education program for hypertension. Blood pressure and quality of life will be the primary outcomes. |
| Title: | Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center |
| Investigator: | Nathan Linsk, Principal
Investigator
Christopher Mitchell, Co-Investigator |
| Funding Sources: | Health Resources Service Administration, U. S. Public Health Service |
| Start/End Dates: | April, 1988 – July, 2005 |
| Description: | This federally-funded center provides AIDS and HIV training to health care and social service professionals. The mission of MATEC is to increase the number of health care providers who are effectively educated and motivated to prevent, diagnose, treat and manage HIV infection. For more information, MATEC has a dedicated website that can be accessed from the previous page. |
| Title: | Ryan White Evaluation Project |
| Investigators: | Nathan Linsk, Principal Investigator |
| Funding Sources: | Chicago Department of Public Health, Ryan White CARE Act Title I |
| Start/End Dates: | March, 1997-February, 2004. |
| Description: | The Ryan White Care Act funded AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETCs) offer a variety of learning programs to provide state-of-the-art HIV/AIDS education and training to health care professionals. As increasing numbers of persons with HIV are becoming resistant to antiretroviral medications, the AETCs have developed numerous programs that address HIV drug resistance and drug resistance testing. In addition to providing training to health care professionals, this project seeks to gather information on systems that deliver services to HIV-infected individuals; to assist in increasing HIV service delivery knowledge sharing and collaboration within Illinois and the Midwest; and to share knowledge with and collaborate with community agencies in efforts to prevent HIV infection. |
| Title: | HIV Perinatal Training and Support |
| Investigator: | Christopher G. Mitchell, Principal Investigator |
| Funding Sources: | Illinois Department of Public Health HIV/AIDS Section and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| Start/End Dates: | January 2003-December 2003 |
| Description: | This project is part of a statewide effort to eradicate perinatal HIV transmission in Illinois. This effort has a dual focus on prevention of HIV transmission through testing and counseling of all pregnant women and subsequent effective medical management of HIV infected pregnant women. With funding provided by the CDC and the Illinois Department of Public Health, this project included several components: 1) the assessment of current HIV prevention practices among perinatal health care providers; 2) the provision of training and educational programming to educate healthcare providers about integrating HIV prevention interventions into their prenatal care practices; and 3) the development and dissemination of treatment and clinical management guidelines for HIV infected pregnant women. |
| Title: | DAART+: Integrating HIV Treatment Adherence and Prevention |
| Investigators: | Christopher G. Mitchell,
Principal Investigator
Sally Freels, Co-Investigator |
| Funding Sources: | National Institute of Mental Health and the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities |
| Start/End Dates: | September 2003-July, 2006 |
| Description: | In light of the need for
interventions to promote treatment adherence as well as secondary prevention
of HIV, the University of Illinois at Chicago Jane Addams College of Social
Work (JACSW) in partnership with the Chicago Health Outreach (CHO) and
the Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center (MATEC) is developing and
evaluating an innovative intervention that integrates directly observed
therapy for HIV and HIV risk reduction with a marginally housed population
(n=30). This enhanced intervention seeks to promote not only
ongoing adherence to antiretroviral therapy, but also ongoing maintenance
of reduced risk behaviors. The intervention, directly administered
antiretroviral therapy and risk reduction (DAART+), is rooted in the stages
of change framework and Information-Motivation-Behavioral skills model.
The adherence/prevention objectives are integrated in a case management
model that is responsive to the diverse needs of the study sample population.
The goals of this project include: • Implementation of a case management-based DAART+ model that integrates the promotion of treatment adherence and HIV prevention for a population of marginally housed individuals. |
