Completed Studies

Completed SIRC studies led by SIRC Investigators and affiliated ASU researchers 

• Leveraging Bio-Cultural Mechanisms to Maximize the Impact of Multi-Level Preventable Disease Interventions with Southwest Populations
  U54 Specialized Center of Excellence on Minority Health and Health Disparities Research
  
  Principal Investigator: Flavio Marsiglia
  Funding: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2017-2026
  
  The overarching aim of the Specialized Center of Excellence is to advance knowledge on the prevention of cardiometabolic disease and substance abuse disorders among the health disparities populations of the Southwest. 
   

  • Eliminating COVID-19 Disparities in Partnership with Underserved/Vulnerable Transnational Communities of Arizona (supplement to the U54 Specialized Center of Excellence)
    
    Principal Investigator: Flavio Marsiglia
    Funding: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2021-2026
    
    This project aims to implement and evaluate a multi-faceted promotora-led intervention in border communities including Nogales/Rio Rico, Douglas, Yuma/San Luis/Somerton, and Tohono O’odham Nation. This project aims to increase access to testing and related services for vulnerable and underserved transnational communities. In a partnership between Arizona State University (ASU), Equality Health Foundation (EHF) and other community organizations and leaders, this project empowers local communities, is data driven, and creates capacity for community-driven delivery of care.
     

  • Eliminating COVID-19 Disparities in Arizona in Partnership with Underserved/Vulnerable Communities (supplement to the U54 Specialized Center of Excellence)
    
    Principal Investigator: Flavio Marsiglia
    Funding: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2020-2022
    
    The projects aim is to increase access, acceptance, uptake, and sustainability of COVID-19 testing among underserved American Indian, Latinx, and African American communities living in testing deserts in Arizona through the implementation and evaluation of an innovative community-engaged intervention.  It combines the R.A.P.I.D. testing model of Equality Health with a FDA-authorized saliva-based diagnostic test developed by the Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute.
     

  • Every Little Step Counts: Follow-up of a Culturally-Grounded Diabetes Prevention Program for Obese Latino Adolescents (U54 Specialized Center of Excellence)
    
    Principal Investigator: Gabriel Shaibi 
    Funding: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2017-2024
     

  • Multi-level Effects of a Parenting Intervention for Enhancing Latino Youth Health Behaviors (U54 Specialized Center of Excellence)

    
    
    Principal Investigator: Sonia Vega-López
    Funding: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2017-2024
     

• The Relationship between Permissive Social, Normative, and Legal Marijuana Environments and Marijuana and ATOD use from Late Childhood to Young Adulthood (Community Youth Development Study, CYDS)
  
  Principal Investigator(s): Sabrina Oesterle, ASU; Margaret Kuklinski, University of Washington
  Funding: National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2018-2024
  
  This study examines the interplay of social, normative, and legal marijuana contexts and its impact on marijuana and alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use from late childhood to the late 20s using survey data collected from a cohort of young adults followed since Grade 5 as part of the randomized trial of the Communities That Care (CTC) prevention system. The project also examines long-term effects of CTC on substance use and other behavioral health outcomes in young adulthood. 
   

• Culture, Longitudinal Patterns, and Safety Promotion of Handgun Carrying among Rural Adolescents: Implications for Injury Prevention
  
  Principal Investigator(s): Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, University of Washington (Principal Investigator); Sabrina Oesterle, ASU (co-Investigator)
  Funding: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020-2024
  
  The study focuses on rural communities where the high levels of firearm access and mortality, cultural influences, attitudes and risks associated with youth handgun carrying are understudied and underserved. The study is a collaboration with investigators from the University of Washington, Washington State University, Arizona State University, and Seattle Children’s Research Institute.
   

• Promoting Health and Well-being among Latino Youth in Rural and Small Town Communities in the United States

  
  
  Principal Investigator(s): Katarina Guttmannova, University of Washington (Principal Investigator); Sabrina Oesterle, ASU (co-Investigator)                    
  Funding: National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2020-2024
  
  This project uses existing community-based longitudinal as well as national cross-sectional data to examine influences on health and well-being of rural Latino youth to understand health disparities in substance use and associated risk and protective factors.
   

• Arizona CEAL COVID Consortium (AC3): Promoting Health Equity during the COVID Pandemic
  
  Principal Investigator(s): Sairam Parthasarathy, University of Arizona; Sabrina Oesterle, Arizona State University; Samantha Sabo, Northern Arizona University; Chyke Doubeni/Jon Tilburt, Mayo Clinic
  Funding: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, 2020-2023
   

• The Maryvale Family-Wellbeing Project
  
  Principal Investigators: Rebecca Birr,  Micaela Mercado
  Funding: Watts College One Square Mile Initiative/Family Learning Center, Valleywise     Community Health Centers, 2021-2022
  
  Using a community-based participatory research approach, this project partners with the Family Learning Center and the Hispanic/Latino families they serve to improve parents’ knowledge about adult/child behavioral and mental health issues and services, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
   

• Health Disparities Research at SIRC: Cultural Processes in Risk and Resiliency (Exploratory NIMHD Center of Excellence, 2012-2017)
  
  Principal Investigator: Flavio F. Marsiglia
  Funding: National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2012-2017 (Grant #: P20MD002316)
  
  The continuation of the Exploratory Center of Excellence engaged in community-based prevention intervention studies to examine the role of social determinants of health -- including cultural processes -- as factors in the creation, reduction and elimination of health disparities with a focus on the ethnic minority populations of the Southwest and the U.S.-Mexico border region, concentrating on protective cultural processes. 

  • Every Little Step Counts: Efficacy Trial
    
    Principal Investigator: Gabriel Q. Shaibi
    Funding: National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2012-2017 (Grant # P20MD002316-06) 

  • A Parent-Child Approach to Substance Abuse Prevention for Mexican American Youth
    (Families Preparing the New Generation: Effectiveness Trial)
    
    Principal Investigator: Flavio F. Marsiglia
    Funding: National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2012-2017 (Grant # P20MD002316-06) 

  • Urban American Indian Youth Substance Use: Ecodevelopmental Influences
    
    Principal Investigator: Stephen S. Kulis
    Funding: National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2012-2017 (Grant # P20MD002316-06) 

  • African American Barbershops and Health Literacy 
    (Community Engagement & Outreach Core Demonstration Project)
    
    Principal Investigator: Olga I. Davis
    Funding: National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2012-2017 (Grant # P20MD002316-06) 

  • Training Asian American Lay Health Navigators 
    (Community Engagement & Outreach Core Demonstration Project)

    
    
    Principal Investigator: Crista Johnson-Agbakwu

    
    Funding: National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2012-2017 (Grant # P20MD002316-06) 

    
     

• Using CBPR to Adapt a Culturally-grounded Prevention Curriculum for Urban American Indian Parents (Parenting in 2 Worlds)
  
  Principal Investigator: Stephen S. Kulis
  Funding: National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2012-2017 (Grant # R01MD006110) 
   

• Health Disparities Research at SIRC: Cultural Processes in Risk and Resiliency
  (Exploratory NCMHD Research Center of Excellence, 2007-2012)
  
  Principal Investigator: Flavio F. Marsiglia
  Funding: National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2007-2012 (Grant #: P20MD002316-01)
  
  The Exploratory Research Center of Excellence conducted interdisciplinary, community-based minority health and health disparities research by studying the pathways to disparities in health outcomes with an emphasis on familial factors, acculturation, and gender.

  • A Supplemental Parent Education Intervention to Enhance the Efficacy of keepin’ it REAL (Families Preparing the New Generation: Efficacy Trial)
    
    Principal Investigators: Felipe G. Castro and Flavio F. Marsiglia
    Funding: National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2007-2012 (Grant #: P20MD002316-01)

  • Illness Representations among Mexican Mothers of Children with Asthma (Pilot Study)
    
    Principal Investigator: Kim Arcoleo
    Funding: National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2009-2012 (Grant # P20MD002316-01)

  • Community-Based Participatory Research to Improve Health and Quality of Life of Latino Youth - Every Little Step Counts (Pilot Study)
    
    Principal Investigator: Gabriel Q. Shaibi

    
    Funding: National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2009-2012 (Grant # P20MD002316-01)

  • Sexual Risk Behaviors in Juvenile Female Offenders (Pilot Study)
    A Secondary Analysis of Project SHARP Data 
    
    Principal Investigator: Alyssa Robillard
    Funding: National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2009-2010 (Grant # P20MD002316-01) 

  • Culturally-Specific Substance Abuse Prevention for Urban American Indian Youth (Living in 2 Worlds)
    
    Principal Investigators: Eddie F. Brown and Stephen S. Kulis
    Funding: National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2007-2012 (Grant # P20MD002316-01)

  • Community Engagement & Outreach Core: Needs Assessment
    
    Principal Investigator: Olga I. Davis
    Funding: National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2007-2012 (Grant # P20MD002316-01) 

  • Longitudinal Pathways Linking Acculturation and Family Factors to Risky Sexual Behavior, Substance Use and Depressive Symptoms among Mexican-American and Chinese-American Youth 
    Acculturation and Health of Mexican-American and Chinese-American Youth (Pilot Study)
    
    Principal Investigators: Angela Chen and Mary Gillmore
    Funding: National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2007-2009 (Grant # P20MD002316-01) 

  • Somali Refugees: The Role of Men in Women's Health Decisions (Pilot Study)
    
    Principal Investigator: Crista Johnson- Agbakwu
    Funding: Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center, 2008-2009 (Pilot Incubator Grant) 

• Somali Immigrant Women’s Health Seeking and Health Care Utilization
  
  Principal Investigator: Crista Johnson-Agbakwu
   

• A Culturally Grounded Approach to Improve the Interconception Care of Latina Mothers - Familias Sanas (Healthy Families)
  
  Principal Investigators: Flavio F. Marsiglia & Dean Coonrod
  Funding: Hispanic Health Services Grant Program/ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2007-2009 (Grant # 1H0CMS03207)
   

• Native Youth Social Competence and Resiliency (Pilot Study)
  
  Principal Investigator: Craig LeCroy
  Funding: National Institutes of Health/ National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2002-2007 (Grant #R24 DA13937)
   

• Drug Court Treatment Engagement & Retention (Pilot Study)
  
  Principal Investigator: Jose Ashford
  Funding: National Institutes of Health/ National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2002-2007 (Grant # R24DA13937) 
   

• Project Corazon Life Journeys
  
  Principal Investigator: Felipe G. Castro
  Funding: National Institutes of Health/ National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities, 2002-2007 (Grant # P20MD002316
   

• Latino Acculturation and Health Project
  
  Principal Investigators: Paul Smokowski & Flavio F. Marsiglia
  Funding: Centers for Disease Control, National Injury Prevention Center, 2004-2007 (Grant # R49/CCR42172 & 1K01CE000496) 
   

• Drug Resistance Strategies IV 
  keepin’ it REAL Adaptation Trial
  
  Principal Investigator: Flavio Marsiglia (Arizona component)
  Funding: National Institutes of Health/ National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2003-2008 (Grant # R01DA005629)
   

• Drug Resistance Strategies: The Next Generation
  keepin’ it REAL: Contextual Moderators of Program Effects
  
  Principal Investigators: Flavio Marsiglia & Stephen Kulis
  Funding: National Institutes of Health/ National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2001-2003 (Grant # R01DA14825) 
   

• Drug Resistance Strategies III
  keepin’ it REAL Efficacy Trial
  
  Principal Investigator: Flavio Marsiglia (Arizona component)
  Funding: National Institutes of Health/ National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1997-2001 (Grant # R01DA14825)