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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2017 May 19;5(2):342–350. doi: 10.1007/s40615-017-0376-7

Table 3.

Research projects funded by HESP or participated in by HESP students.

Funding Source Mentor Project/Poster Title
HESP
UMB Institute for New England Native American Studies 2 students: 2014 summer
Health needs of Native peoples and urban Indians of New England
UMB Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture 1 student: 2014 summer
Sexual harassment and black girls: A literature review
UMB College of Education-Counseling Program 1 student: 2014 summer
Latino patient’s perceptions about prostate and breast cancer screening: implications for the USA nursing curricula
UMB Institute for Asian American Studies 1 student: 2014 summer
Lack of treatment for gambling disorders in a Vietnamese community
UMB College of Nursing 1 student: 2015 summer
Collaboration and teams sciences for health services
UMB Dept of Psychology 1 student: 2015 summer
Addressing health disparities in autism spectrum disorders
UMB Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture 1 student: 2015 summer
Assessing health needs of African immigrant communities in Boston
UMB Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture 1 student: 2015 summer
African heritage/black grandparents WIC nutrition study: A needs assessment of the nutritional education needs of ethnic minority grandparents of WIC children ages 1–5 years old in MA
UMB College of Nursing 1 student: 2015 summer
A videoconferencing smoking cessation intervention for Korean American women
UMB College of Public and Community Service 1 student: 2015 summer
The effects of location on health outcomes among Puerto Ricans
UMB Gerontology Institute 1 student: 2015 summer
Self-reported health access to health care services and English spoken at home: A study among older residents in Boston
UMB College of Nursing 1 student: 2015 summer
A culturally sensitive approach towards Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease prevention in American Indian women with a history of gestational diabetes
CHEIR-Core research project Gastón Institute 6 students total, 2012–2016 summer and academic year, field work, transcription, data entry; 3 not participating in other research
Por Ahí Dicen: Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Spanish Media PSA Campaign to Promote Puerto Rican Mother-Child Communication about Sexuality
Univ. of Mass Medical School
UMMS Office of Outreach Programs 1 student: 2015 summer
BACC-MD summer residential program
UMMS Office of Outreach Programs 2 students: 2015 summer
Summer Enrichment Program
NCI U54/CURE (Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences) and other sponsors
U54 UMB-Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Research Partnership 1 student: 2015 summer
Novel warhead synthesis for BRD4 and BRDT bromodomain inhibition in vitro
Harvard Medical School 1 student: 2015 summer
Pig cloning and CRISPR-Cas9 screening for xenotransportation
CURE-Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Research Partnership 1 student: 2015 summer
Barriers to cancer care among black Bostonians
U54 UMB-Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Research Partnership 1 student:2015 summer
Assessing health needs and developing programming in a Black church-is it sustainable.
U54 UMB-Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Research Partnership 1 student; 2015 summer
Does educational material act as an incentive in increasing minority participation in biobanks?