# Preventable Differences: Exploring Public Health Careers with Black and Latino Youth

> **NIH NIH R25** · NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE · 2022 · $244,092

## Abstract

Project Summary / Abstract
The overarching goal of this project is to create exhibits and programs that educate broad
audiences, especially Black and Latino adolescents and young adults, about public health
careers and their role in alleviating the inequitable health outcomes that Black and Latino
communities suffer from. We will use the COVID-19 pandemic as the content focus for these
exhibits and programs. Key learning outcomes will include:
 1. COVID-19 and other health challenges have had a disproportionate impact on Black and
 Latino people, for a variety of interconnected reasons;
 2. Minimizing this disproportionate impact will require creating locally-tailored,
 culturally-responsive public health interventions and engaging community-level public
 health experts to recruit and support public participation;
 3. There are many health- and medicine-focused career pathways that young people can
 pursue that can help them contribute to the goal of better protecting vulnerable
 communities from future epidemics and pandemics.
The specific aims of this five-year proposed project are to:
 1. Project Years 1-2: Engage public health experts and community members from Queens,
 NY in a range of public events to build trust, gather input, track the latest emerging
 scientific knowledge COVID-19 and effective tracing, diagnosis and treatment; and guide
 the design and development of exhibits and workshops that address project goals.
 2. Project Year 3: Fabricate five exhibit pieces and create a career exploration workshop
 series that address these goals, pilot them at the New York Hall of Science, evaluate
 their impact and revise as needed.
 3. Project Year 4: Pilot the exhibit pieces and workshop series at a peer science center in
 Oakland, CA, evaluate their impact and revise as needed.
 4. Project year 5: Produce final versions of the exhibit pieces for the New York Hall of
 Science; disseminate exhibit plans for use at other museum sites; disseminate workshop
 formats for use at other museum sites; disseminate evaluation findings.
The project will use formative testing and prototyping to inform the design and development of
educational resources. The project evaluation will use culturally-responsive, rigorous methods to
both monitor project progress and quality and to test the impact of project deliverables on
participants and public audiences.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10408146
- **Project number:** 5R25GM142063-02
- **Recipient organization:** NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE
- **Principal Investigator:** Katherine Culp
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $244,092
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2021-05-20 → 2026-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10408146

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10408146, Preventable Differences: Exploring Public Health Careers with Black and Latino Youth (5R25GM142063-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10408146. Licensed CC0.

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