Project Period: 9/01/07-8/30/2012
Funded By: National Institutes of Health, National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities contract 5-50436
Award: $6,828,832.00 (Shaw $2,573,045.00)
Co-PIs & Co-Directors: Daniel L. Howard, Ph.D. and Paul Godley, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.P.

Associate Director : Leonard Williams, B.A.

Carolina-Shaw Partnership for Health Disparities Research
This continued inter-university partnership between Shaw University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will concentrate on research productivity and measurable progress in eliminating health disparities through the conduct of independent and pilot research projects that address a NCMHD priority condition: serious mental illness, cardiovascular disease, and HIV.

Pilot Projects:

1. Health Disparities in Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders;
2. Pilot Study to Initiate Planning of a North Carolina Health Interview Survey; and
3. Development of an Organizational Readiness to Change Instrument for Black Churches.

Independent Projects:

1. Reducing Barriers to Care for Autism and Early Onset Psychosis among African American Families;
2. The Black Church and CVD: Are We Our Brother’s Keepers?; and
3. Sermon-based Messages for HIV Prevention.