# Research Core-MHD

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI CORAL GABLES · 2020 · $233,399

## Abstract

Project Summary Research MHD Core D
 Racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender minority populations are the least likely to benefit from medical
advances in HIV prevention and treatment, and the most susceptible to comorbid HIV-related mental health
(MH) problems affecting all aspects of the HIV prevention and care continua. South Florida – Miami in
particular – a US HIV/AIDS epicenter and home to one of the largest populations of racial, ethnic and
sexual/gender minority individuals at risk for and living with HIV/AIDS in the nation, is an ideal setting for
advancing research to address HIV-related MH disparities. The environment includes multiple risks and
disadvantages that set the stage for disparities in access to and utilization of HIV and MH services and in
HIV/AIDS and MH outcomes. The Mental Health Disparities (MHD) Core of the University of Miami
Development AIDS Research Center (UM D-ARC) will promote research to understand, assess, and intervene
with sociocultural and structural drivers at the intersection of HIV and MH disparities.
 The MHD Core will provide expert consultation, develop and expand research resources (measures
library and consent-to-contact databases), and engage with community stakeholders to achieve the following
Specific Aims: (1) promote culturally competent, theory-driven assessment approaches and interventions that
will result in rigorous, high-impact research to address MH and minority health disparities in HIV/AIDS
prevention and care; (2) facilitate and maximize the impact of community-engaged and responsive MH and
HIV research through bi-directional collaboration of UM investigators with community stakeholders and
engagement of potential research participants from hard-to-reach at-risk populations; and (3) provide Human
Subjects consultation and support to D-ARC investigators to ensure that risks, fairness, consent, and data
quality/safety are addressed when working with vulnerable populations.
 The MHD Core will work in synchrony with the Developmental Core to equip investigators to conduct
rigorous, ethical, multi-level research that addresses disparities in HIV and MH. It will complement the
Methods Core in that the Methods Core will provide D-ARC users with general research methods and
biostatistical analysis support, and the MHD core will provide UM users with more specific research support on
considerations when working with diverse and underserved populations affected by MH and other HIV
prevention and treatment related disparities. The MHD core will therefore promote innovative and theory-
driven research approaches, stimulating research in synchrony with the UM D-ARC mission of Reducing the
Impact of Mental Health and Minority Health Disparities across the HIV Prevention and Care Continua.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9899315
- **Project number:** 5P30MH116867-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI CORAL GABLES
- **Principal Investigator:** Deborah Lynne Jones
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $233,399
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9899315

## Citation

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