# Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions

> **NIH NIH U54** · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $83,334

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
The Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions
The HCHDS was established in 2002 with funding from the NCMHD-EXPORT Center program
and renewed under the COE program in 2006 and 2011. Our primary objective is to be a
national resource for advancing the science of health equity and identifying and promulgating
solutions for reducing and eliminating health disparities. Based in the Department of Health
Policy and Management in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, we promote and encourage
health disparities research, training and community engagement using the resources of the
Johns Hopkins Schools of Public Health, Medicine and Nursing.
Over the next five years we propose to conduct three major research projects that primarily
focus on interpersonal and community-level influences. The cross-cutting theme for these
projects is “exploring and addressing the impact of place-based determinants in health
disparities among African Americans.” We define place broadly as the physical/built
environment, sociocultural environment, and the healthcare system. The physical/built
environments include contextual/distal factors that influence outcomes such as household,
neighborhood, and community level factors. Sociocultural environment includes family and
community norms, social support, social networks, social connectedness, and segregation by
race/ethnicity, rurality, socioeconomic status, and language. The healthcare system includes the
influence of local healthcare market characteristics, the regulatory environment, and policy level
factors.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10395045
- **Project number:** 3U54MD000214-20S1
- **Recipient organization:** JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Darrell J. Gaskin
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $83,334
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2002-09-22 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10395045

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10395045, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions (3U54MD000214-20S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10395045. Licensed CC0.

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