# HEALTH EQUITY CORE

> **NIH NIH P30** · NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE DBA RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC · 2024 · $192,531

## Abstract

The Health Equity Core focuses on one of the greatest US and global public health challenges in the persisting
HIV epidemic – reducing inter-related inequities in (a) HIV prevention and care and (b) screening for treatment
of mental health (MH), including substance abuse. MH problems are among the most significant barriers to
achieving UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets. Remarkable advances have transformed HIV prevention and treatment;
likewise, evidence-based interventions (EBIs) address a range of MH problems that are consistently associated
with poor health outcomes; for example, delayed HIV diagnosis, poor engagement, and retention in care, and
virologic failure. Nevertheless, disparities in accessing HIV services and MH services for HIV-affected
populations (HIV-MH services) – and in the associated HIV continuum outcomes – persist among minoritized
and marginalized populations and in resource-poor settings. Guided by perspectives such as intersectionality,
equity and disparities, to enable the HIV Center to reach these goals, the Health Equity Core has the following
Specific Aims: (1) to promote research to IDENTIFY disparities in HIV and HIV-MH prevention and care by
applying behavioral and social science research that (a) prioritizes community-based designs and
participatory research and (b) use innovative web-based technologies (e.g., geospatial, real-time, app-based) to
the capture of multi-level data that identify and characterize disparities (Framework Phase 1); (2) to promote
research to UNDERSTAND the intersecting impacts of social determinants of HIV and HIV-MH prevention
and care disparities by (a) applying intersectionality, equity, and SDoH perspectives, (b) promoting use of
implementation science equity frameworks to guide the measurement and analysis of patient, provider, and
organizational factors such as reach, access, and sustainability in vulnerable populations, and (c) exploring the
influence of intersecting epidemics (e.g., COVID-19, global crises), to improve HIV and MH systems
preparedness (Framework Phase 2); and (3) to advance intervention and implementation science to
REDUCE HIV and/or HIV-MH disparities through participatory approaches that (a) leverage digital technologies
in interventions and implementation strategies to maximize equitable access to HIV and/or HIV-MH prevention
and care and (b) tailor evidence-based multi-level interventions and implementation strategies, to address SDoH,
including leveraging local wisdom and resources to facilitate rigorous and sustainable scale up of EBIs
(Framework Phase 3).

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10841023
- **Project number:** 5P30MH043520-36
- **Recipient organization:** NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE DBA RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC
- **Principal Investigator:** MILTON L WAINBERG
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $192,531
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1987-09-30 → 2028-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10841023

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10841023, HEALTH EQUITY CORE (5P30MH043520-36). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10841023. Licensed CC0.

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