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The city of Louisville, Ky., is getting a $25 million boost to fight racism and other inequities in health care.
The Humana Foundation, Humana Inc., and the University of Louisville have teamed up to create the Health Equity Innovation Hub, which aims to close health equity gaps in communities that have been disproportionately affected by racism, reports the Courier-Journal.
The Hub has awarded more than $1 million in research funding to 10 projects, including an examination of racial trauma processing for family health and a project that aims to improve access to healthy food, per a press release.
The projects are: The Pharmacy Index (PAI) Project (Lihui Bai) Primary Primary Youth Development Certificate (Alaniia Brown School of Public Health and Information Sciences) An Examination of the Racial Trauma Processing for Family Health Intervention (Emma Sterrett) Workforce Development, Well, and Organizational Readiness to Retain Black American Living Adults Living Adults in Kent, Kentucky (Meera Araja) Community Resource Communities (Sampling for Cervical Cancer Screening in Sexual Minorities) An Approach to Address Neighborhood Factors that Impact HIV Care Continuum (Je Kerrish Community and Information Sciences)Assessing risk factors associated with childhood poisoning Jefferson County: Environmental Justice and Listening (Brian Guin School of Public Health and
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