Diversity and Health Research Profile
Racial and Ethnic Differences
Reducing Disparities in Diabetes Care
A study designed to assess the causes of and reduce racial and ethnic disparities in diabetes care among members of health plans.
Contact: Allen Fremont, MD (Allen_Fremont@rand.org) or Nicole Lurie, MD (Nicole_Lurie@rand.org)Project SNaX: A Healthy Living Study
In collaboration with Los Angeles Unified School District and key community stakeholders, a study to design and pilot test an intervention aimed at promoting healthy eating and physical activity among an ethnically diverse sample of middle school youth.
Contact: Mark Schuster, MD, PhD (Mark_Schuster@rand.org)Overcoming Depression Disparities
A study to examine racial and ethnic differences in outcomes of efforts to improve the quality of care for depression in primary care settings and to describe African Americans' and Latinos' long-term adaptation to and management of depression.
Contact: Kenneth Wells, MD (Kenneth_Wells@rand.org) or Cathy Sherbourne, PhD (Cathy_Sherbourne@rand.org)The Healthy Passages Study
A longitudinal study of more than 5,000 ten-year-olds in three communities (Los Angeles, Birmingham, and Houston) representing diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds, to examine individual, peer, family, school, and neighborhood influences on substance use, violence, injuries, physical activity, nutrition, sexual activity, and mental and physical health biennially over a ten-year period.
Contact: Mark Schuster, MD, PhD (Mark_Schuster@rand.org)Treating Childhood Asthma in a High-Risk Hispanic Community
A study to extend the asthma management interventions developed by RAND and the Alianza Contra el Asma Pediatrica en Puerto Rico coalition (Alliance Against Pediatric Asthma in Puerto Rico) to another community and to make it sustainable.
Contact: Marielena Lara, MD (Marielena_Lara@rand.org)Estimating Health Risks in Hard-to-Reach Populations
A study to develop a cost-effective and statistically reliable approach for deriving estimates of the prevalence of various health risk behaviors, risk factors, and outcomes in small racial, ethnic, and other hard-to-reach populations that can be used to better assess the magnitude of health disparities in the United States.
Contact: Brian Finch, PhD (Brian_Finch@rand.org)Perceived Discrimination, Health Care Attitudes, and HIV Treatment
A study to investigate perceived stress and negative attitudes toward health care as possible barriers to antiretroviral treatment adherence and safer sexual behavior among 200 HIV-infected African American men.
Contact: Laura Bogart, PhD (Laura_Bogart@rand.org)Improving Exercise and Eating in Minnesota
A study to assess factors that promote and impede following dietary and exercise recommendations and to develop a targeted intervention to improve adherence for people of different racial/ethnic origins and economic levels throughout Minnesota.
Contact: Deborah Cohen, MD, MPH (Deborah_Cohen@rand.org)RAND Center for Population Health and Health Disparities
A new RAND center dedicated to the study of the biological and behavioral effects of neighborhood conditions on health outcomes.
Contact: Nicole Lurie, MD, MSPH (Nicole_Lurie@rand.org)Assessing Cultural Comparability of CAHPS
A follow-on to the initial effort to collect and report consumer information on the quality of health plans and health care, which will assess the cultural comparability of data by race and ethnicity.
Contact: Ron Hays, PhD (Ron_Hays@rand.org) or Beverly Weidmer, MA (Beverly_Weidmer@rand.org)
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