Minority Leaders Development Program
The Minority Leaders Development Program aims to enhance skills and competencies necessary for federal leadership service among participants through a curriculum focused on health care policy, leadership skill-building, and cultural competence. The initiative will fill a gap in federal fellowship opportunities for individuals interested in working at HHS to advance health equity and address the social determinants of health through health policies, programs, and practices.
The two-year fellowship program will provide early-career individuals with training in health equity issues and leadership, fellowship-related work experiences, supplemental learning opportunities, and mentorship. The full list of awardees is below.
The project period for the grant is September 30, 2021 – September 29, 2023
| Award Recipients | Award Amount |
| The George Washington University | $583,203 |
| Kennedy Krieger Institute, Inc. | $750,000 |
| National Hispanic Medical Association | $750,000 |
| Total: $2,083,203 | |
National Lupus Outreach and Clinical Trial Education Program
The National Lupus Outreach and Clinical Trial Education Program will demonstrate the effectiveness of interventions for increasing minority participation in lupus-related clinical trials. By improving clinical trial diversity, the National Lupus Outreach and Clinical Trial Education Program seeks to help to reduce lupus-related health disparities experienced by racial and ethnic minority populations.
Projects are expected to develop public-private and community partnerships to support and/or sustain effective practices to increase racial and ethnic minority enrollment and retention in lupus clinical trials, and tailor existing outreach or education interventions that focus on health care providers/practitioners and/or racial and ethnic minority populations.
The project period for the grant is September 30, 2021 – September 29, 2023
| Award Recipient | Award Amount |
| American College of Rheumatology | $500,000 |
| The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority | $256,543 |
| Lupus Foundation of America, Inc. | $500,000 |
| The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | $426,192 |
| The University of Alabama | $351,712 |
| Total: $2,034,447 | |
Framework to Address Health Disparities through Collaborative Policy Efforts: Coordinating Center and Demonstration Projects
The Framework to Address Health Disparities through the Collaborative Policy Efforts initiative is designed to help identify and address policies that may create or perpetuate health disparities and contribute to structural racism.
The coordinating center is expected to lead the development and evaluation of a methodological framework, structured process, and tool to support the assessment and identification of policies that may create or perpetuate health disparities and contribute to structural racism. The demonstration projects will utilize the framework, process, and tool to identify specific policies that may create or perpetuate health disparities and contribute to structural racism and will work to modify or develop new policies to improve health outcomes. The full list of awardees is below.
The project period for the grant is September 30, 2021 – September 29, 2024
| Award Recipient - Coordinating Center | Award Amount |
| National Network of Public Health Institutes | $500,000 |
| Total: $500,000 | |
| Award Recipient - Demonstration Projects | Award Amount |
| Baltimore City Health Department | $374,741 |
| The Center for Black Health & Equity | $375,000 |
| Illinois Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Association | $300,700 |
| Morehouse School of Medicine, Inc. | $374,845 |
| Native American Development Corporation | $375,000 |
| The Regents of the University of California, Irvine | $350,312 |
| Total: $2,150,598 | |
Accessing Social Determinants of Health Data Through Local Data Intermediaries
The Accessing Social Determinants of Health Data Through Local Data Intermediaries initiative will demonstrate whether existing local data intermediaries can facilitate community stakeholder access to and use of integrated community-level social determinants of health and health data. The initiative will also increase community stakeholders’ skills and capacity to use and apply data related to health disparities.
A local data intermediary is a community-based entity that acts as the mediator between data and local stakeholders, such as nonprofit organizations, community and faith-based organizations, governments, foundations, and residents. HHS OMH expects the projects funded through this initiative to increase the use of data related to social determinants of health and social risk in ways that enhance the development of local policies, programs, and practices that address health disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations, and increase the capacity of community stakeholders to use data to make data-informed decisions to improve the health of racial and ethnic minority and disadvantaged populations.
The project period for the grants is September 30, 2021, to September 29, 2024.
| Award Recipients | Award Amount |
| Community Information Now | $250,000 |
| The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles | $250,000 |
| Total: $500,000 | |
Family-Centered Approaches to Improving Type 2 Diabetes Control and Prevention
The new Family-Centered Type 2 Diabetes Control and Prevention Initiative aims to test interventions to identify family-centered factors that promote self-management and prevention of Type 2 diabetes among racial and ethnic minority and disadvantaged families who have a member(s) aged 12 and older with Type 2 diabetes.
Through the testing of family-centered interventions, OMH expects awardees to identify specific family-centered factors (e.g., structural, functional, and cultural) that affect patient self-management of diabetes (e.g., physical activity and healthy nutrition) and family members' health outcomes. The seven grantees will conduct projects in Arkansas, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and Washington.
The project period for the grant is September 30, 2021 – September 29, 2024.
| Award Recipients | Award Amount |
| Asian Health Coalition | $499,493.00 |
| Brookland Center for Community Economic Change | $500,000.00 |
| Central Oklahoma American Indian Health Council, Inc. | $499,745.85 |
| Denver Indian Health and Family Services | $416,057.00 |
| Family Health International | $499,799.31 |
| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences | $499,520.00 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | $486,808.00 |
| Total: $ 3,401,423.16 | |
Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity
The Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity (the Center) will support efforts including education, service and policy development, and research related to advancing sustainable solutions to address health disparities and advance health equity among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) populations.
OMH expects the Center for Indigenous Innovation and Health Equity recipients will implement the Center by:
- Participating in, contributing to, and managing the Center’s advisory board,
- Partnering with indigenous leaders, AI/AN and NHPI communities, and academic institutions on the Center’s activities,
- Identifying and disseminating culturally appropriate, evidence-based and/or practice-based interventions, best practices, promising approaches, and lessons learned, and
- Designing and providing education and training to support community capacity-building.
The project period for the grants is September 30, 2021, to September 29, 2023.
| Award Recipients | Award Amount |
| Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences | $986,522 |
| University of Hawaii | $999,994 |
| Total: $1,986,516 | |
Advancing Health Literacy to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19
The Advancing Health Literacy to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19 seeks to demonstrate the effectiveness of local government implementation of evidence-based health literacy strategies that are culturally appropriate to enhance COVID-19 testing, contact tracing and/or other mitigation measures (e.g., public health prevention practices and vaccination) in racial and ethnic minority populations and other socially vulnerable populations, including racial and ethnic minority rural communities.
OMH expects the awardee projects to demonstrate the effectiveness of working with local community-based organizations to develop health literacy plans to increase the availability, acceptability, and use of COVID-19 public health information and services by racial and ethnic minority populations. Recipients are also expected to leverage local data to identify racial and ethnic minority populations at the highest risk for health disparities and low health literacy, as well as populations not currently reached through existing public health campaigns.
The project period for the grants is July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023.
| Grantees | City | State | Award |
| Alameda County Health Care Services | San Leandro | CA | $1,994,565 |
| Baltimore City Health Department | Baltimore | MD | $4,000,000 |
| Benton County | Bentonville | AR | $3,900,000 |
| Bernalillo County | Albuquerque | NM | $2,092,836 |
| Boston Public Health Commission | Boston | MA | $3,875,000 |
| Broward County | Fort Lauderdale | FL | $3,875,000 |
| City of Albany | Albany | GA | $3,900,000 |
| City of Albuquerque | Albuquerque | NM | $3,950,810 |
| City of Baton Rouge | Baton Rouge | LA | $4,000,000 |
| City of Chattanooga | Chattanooga | TN | $3,404,247 |
| City of Chula Vista | Chula Vista | CA | $4,000,000 |
| City of Frederick | Frederick | MD | $3,939,842 |
| City of Fresno | Fresno | CA | $4,000,000 |
| City of Jacksonville | Jacksonville | FL | $3,295,342 |
| City of Las Vegas | Las Vegas | NV | $1,670,000 |
| City of Lauderhill | Lauderhill | FL | $3,875,000 |
| City of Lincoln | Lincoln | NE | $3,526,006 |
| City of Memphis | Memphis | TN | $3,900,000 |
| City of Milwaukee | Milwaukee | WI | $4,000,000 |
| City of Minneapolis | Minneapolis | MN | $2,040,000 |
| City of Montgomery | Montgomery | AL | $3,900,000 |
| City of New Orleans | New Orleans | LA | $3,900,000 |
| City of Newark | Newark | NJ | $3,875,000 |
| City of Paterson | Paterson | NJ | $4,000,000 |
| City of Pine Bluff | Pine Bluff | AR | $1,240,411 |
| City of Reading | Reading | PA | $3,999,382 |
| City of Richmond | Richmond | VA | $4,000,000 |
| City of Rock Hill | Rock Hill | SC | $3,875,000 |
| City of Rockford | Rockford | IL | $3,614,521 |
| City of Santa Ana | Santa Ana | CA | $4,000,000 |
| City of Tuskegee* | Tuskegee | AL | $3,000,000 |
| City of Vicksburg* | Vicksburg | MS | $3,000,000 |
| City of Waterbury | Waterbury | CT | $4,000,000 |
| City Of Wichita | Wichita | KS | $4,000,000 |
| Clayton County | Jonesboro | GA | $2,000,000 |
| Dallas County | Dallas | TX | $4,000,000 |
| District of Columbia Department of Health | Washington | DC | $3,999,923 |
| Doña Ana County* | Las Cruces | NM | $2,460,636 |
| Durham County | Durham | NC | $2,000,000 |
| Eagle County Public Health & Environment* | Eagle | CO | $2,999,970 |
| Fairfax County | Fairfax | VA | $3,875,000 |
| Franklin County | Columbus | OH | $3,999,169 |
| Fresno County Department of Public Health* | Fresno | CA | $3,000,000 |
| Fulton County | Atlanta | GA | $3,900,000 |
| Gila County* | Globe | AZ | $2,571,740 |
| Hawaii County* | Hilo | HI | $3,000,000 |
| Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County | Indianapolis | IN | $2,861,449 |
| Kansas City Health Department | Kansas City | MO | $2,847,052 |
| Kent County | Grand Rapids | MI | $2,089,233 |
| Maricopa County | Phoenix | AZ | $4,000,000 |
| Mecklenburg County Health Department | Charlotte | NC | $3,900,000 |
| Monterey County Health Department | Salinas | CA | $3,952,437 |
| New Haven Health Department | New Haven | CT | $4,000,000 |
| New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene | New York City | NY | $3,875,000 |
| Oklahoma City County Health Department | Oklahoma City | OK | $3,900,000 |
| Orange County | Goshen | NY | $800,000 |
| Pima County | Tucson | AZ | $4,000,000 |
| Prince Georges County | Upper Marlboro | MD | $3,999,807 |
| Public Health Seattle & King County | Seattle | WA | $3,875,000 |
| Rhode Island Public Health Foundation | Providence | RI | $2,008,508 |
| Salt Lake County | Salt Lake City | UT | $3,844,568 |
| San Antonio Metropolitan Health District | San Antonio | TX | $3,999,933 |
| Shelby County | Memphis | TN | $3,955,982 |
| Snohomish Health District | Everett | WA | $4,000,000 |
| Town of Fort Deposit* | Fort Deposit | AL | $2,992,292 |
| Town of Inverness* | Inverness | MS | $3,000,000 |
| Wake County Human Services | Raleigh | NC | $4,000,000 |
| Washington County* | Greenville | MS | $2,999,992 |
| Washington County | Hillsboro | OR | $3,998,575 |
| Wayne County | Detroit | MI | $3,919,116 |
| Westchester County Department of Health | White Plains | NY | $3,763,565 |
| Yuma County | Yuma | AZ | $2,073,177 |
| Total $250,000,000 | |||
*Denotes awardees with a focus on serving rural communities and populations.