# The RCMI Program in Health Disparities at Meharry Medical College - Supplement

> **NIH NIH U54** · MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE · 2021 · $363,750

## Abstract

Abstract
Meharry Medical College (MMC) is a Historically Black College/University located in Nashville Tennessee
and the first medical school for African Americans in the South. It has a School of Medicine, School of
Dentistry, and School of Graduate Studies & Research. In February 2021, it established a new fourth school,
the School of Applied Computational Sciences (SACS), to provide academic training in data science and
computing-related research on a variety of areas including medical, social, and environmental issues and
trends that impact the health of minority and underserved populations. The Research Centers in Minority
Institutions (RCMI) Program at MMC (in Health Disparities Research, RHDR@MMC) is a long-term NIMHD-
funded endeavor that enables high quality basic, behavioral, and clinical research to eliminate health
disparities. Our RCMI U54 grant supports health disparities research in many diseases including
cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and neurological diseases that disproportionally affect
non-Hispanic Black population in the US. With the great potential of data science to transform industries,
health care, and scientific discovery, this administrative supplement seeks to enhance the data science
capacity of the RHDR@MMC program and foster collaborations between RCMI researchers and data
scientists, to enable the RCMI investigators to assess and analyze big health sciences data to enhance the
overall productivity of the RCMI program as well as contribute to addressing health disparities.
Specifically, this supplement award will help create a data science task force for this project, identify data
science needs of the RCMI researchers at Meharry, and foster collaborations between them and the data
science experts in SACS which will include the development of a joint RCMI/SACS Workshop. This will
enable SACS to provide RCMI researchers with much needed data science expertise and resources for
study design, data infrastructure, data collection, data engineering, health informatics, and machine learning
techniques, to enhance research outcome as well as the cooperation among investigators from different
domains. It will enable the RCMI researchers of all levels to better address the challenges in their health
disparities research. With this award, we expect that the RHDR@MMC program will be greatly empowered
to advance research on minority health and health disparities.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10451237
- **Project number:** 3U54MD007586-35S5
- **Recipient organization:** MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE
- **Principal Investigator:** Samuel Evans Adunyah
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $363,750
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 1997-09-30 → 2022-09-20

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10451237

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10451237, The RCMI Program in Health Disparities at Meharry Medical College - Supplement (3U54MD007586-35S5). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10451237. Licensed CC0.

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