# Project HIRaCAARI: Empowering Communities to Stop the Spread of Antibiotic Resistant Infections through Accessible Health Information

> **NIH NIH G08** · MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · 2021 · $146,095

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
Project Health Information Resources and Community-Associated Antibiotic Resistant Infections
(Project HIRaCAARI) is a program designed to promote the use of the National Library of
Medicine (NLM) consumer health information and other health information databases among
Atlanta area communities identified with the most prevalent cases of community-associated
antibiotic resistant skin and soft tissue infections, also known as methicillin resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Through spatial statistical modeling of the occurrence of
community-associated MRSA skin and soft tissue infection disease in the greater Atlanta
metropolitan area using two distinct surveillance programs and incorporating socio-
environmental (including community level spatial profiles) and socio-economic characteristics of
patients’ neighborhoods, we will prioritize specific Atlanta neighborhoods with high MRSA skin
and soft tissue infection burden for the community level intervention. To improve physical
access to relevant health information to prevent further spread of antibiotic resistant infections,
our team will deploy:
1. An innovative approach to identify those communities at highest risk for antibiotic resistant
MRSA skin and soft tissue infections, using NLM’s community health maps program and spatial
statistical analyses with existing surveillance data of the 20 county Atlanta metropolitan
statistical area.
2. A customized toolkit using a user-centered design model to educate and inform healthcare
providers, patients and other lay community members at risk for antibiotic resistant MRSA skin
and soft tissue infections. This toolkit will be based on information available by adapting content
supplied by the NLM, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Emory University School of
Medicine and Morehouse School of Medicine subject matter experts on best practice for primary
prevention, early recognition, and wound management and treatment of likely MRSA skin and
soft tissue infections;
3. Workshops led by Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) librarians and NLM’s Community
Health Maps Program staff for health providers, patients, community librarians and selected
community service providers in high risk areas on NLM resources access, contents, and general
methods for assessment of information resources, websites and the customized antibiotic
resistant MRSA prevention toolkit.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10133152
- **Project number:** 5G08LM013190-03
- **Recipient organization:** MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** Lilly Hsi-Chih Immergluck
- **Activity code:** G08 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $146,095
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-08-05 → 2023-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10133152

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10133152, Project HIRaCAARI: Empowering Communities to Stop the Spread of Antibiotic Resistant Infections through Accessible Health Information (5G08LM013190-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10133152. Licensed CC0.

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