# Igniting Hope in Buffalo New York communities: Training the Next Generation of Health Equity Researchers

> **NIH NIH P50** · STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO · 2024 · $125,330

## Abstract

The organizational and governance structure of our NIMHD Center of Excellence in Investigator Development
and Community Engagement (Center of Excellence) is guided by its mission, which is to train and develop the
next generation of health disparities investigators to perform innovative research in minority health and health
disparities in partnership with our community and to the benefit of the community. The Center of Excellence will
be embedded in the UB Community Health Equity Research Institute (Health Equity Institute), a fully sanctioned
university-wide institute founded in 2019 as a direct result of our partnership and collaborations with community
leaders and community members. The Health Equity Institute includes faculty from all 12 schools of the
University at Buffalo, providing an immediate connection with researchers and mentors in essentially all
disciplines that bring expertise to perform innovative research to address the many social determinants of health.
Estimates are that improving healthcare will reduce disparities in health outcomes by 10 to 20%. It is critical that
research addresses the upstream factors that account for these disparities. Another noteworthy feature of our
administrative structure is the integration of community leaders as part of the leadership teams of the Center of
Excellence and of each Core, leveraging our influential and far-reaching community-university-government
partnership. The Administrative Core will coordinate and manage Center of Excellence activities with a
responsive governance and inclusive approach, engaging community participation in the leadership and the work
of the Center (Aim 1). The leadership of the Administrative Core will organize and integrate core initiatives to
ensure communication and synergy among cores, while providing expertise and support for maintaining
compliance with policies and procedures (Aim 2). With the African American Health Equity Task Force serving
as an “umbrella” group of our community-university-government partnership, the well-attended monthly Task
Force meetings are highly effective in ensuring continuous communication and coordination between the Center
of Excellence and the community. We will carefully monitor progress toward milestones through evaluation and
continuous quality improvement, while tracking key milestones for processes, productivity, and impact of the
work of the Center of Excellence (Aim 3). We will track scholarly outcomes and career trajectory of early-career
investigators supported by pilot studies. Our vision is the Center of Excellence will provide training, individualized
mentoring, and professional development to early-stage investigators to substantially increase the number of
investigators and leaders in health disparities research. Thus, our Center of Excellence will have enormous
impact in our environment to address root causes of health inequities and lead to sustainable system-level
changes in race-based health inequities in ...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10899830
- **Project number:** 1P50MD019473-01
- **Recipient organization:** STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
- **Principal Investigator:** Timothy F Murphy
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $125,330
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2024-07-19 → 2029-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10899830

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10899830, Igniting Hope in Buffalo New York communities: Training the Next Generation of Health Equity Researchers (1P50MD019473-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10899830. Licensed CC0.

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