Completed Studies
Completed Research Collaborations
SIRC often collaborates in research led by partners at ASU, other academic institutions, and community organizations. Here is a list of completed research collaborations.
Completed SIRC Studies
Completed SIRC studies led by SIRC Investigators and affiliated ASU researchers
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 (Principle 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.
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.
U54 Specialized Center of Excellence on Minority Health and Health Disparities Research
Leveraging Bio-Cultural Mechanisms to Maximize the Impact of Multi-Level Preventable Disease Interventions with Southwest Populations
Principal Investigator: Flavio Marsiglia
Funding: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2017-2024
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.
Every Little Step Counts: Follow-up of a Culturally-Grounded Diabetes Prevention Program for Obese Latino Adolescents (ELSC study part of 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 (FPNG+ study part of U54 Specialized Center of Excellence)
Principal Investigator: Sonia Vega-López
Funding: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2017-2024
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.
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.
Exploratory NIMHD Center of Excellence
Health Disparities Research at SIRC: Cultural Processes in Risk and Resiliency
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)
Families Preparing the New Generation: Effectiveness Trial
A Parent-Child Approach to Substance Abuse Prevention for Mexican American Youth
Principal Investigator: Flavio F. Marsiglia
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
Principal Investigator: Stephen S. Kulis
Funding: National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2012-2017 (Grant # R01MD006110)
Urban American Indian Youth Substance Use: Ecodevelopmental Influences
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
SIRC 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
SIRC 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)
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)
Every Little Step Counts (Pilot Study)
Community-Based Participatory Research to Improve Health and Quality of Life of Latino Youth
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)
Exploratory NCMHD Research Center of Excellence
Health Disparities Research at SIRC: Cultural Processes in Risk and Resiliency
Principal Investigator: Flavio F. Marsiglia
Funding: National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2007-2012 (Grant #: P20MD002316-06)
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.
Families Preparing the New Generation: Efficacy Trial
A Supplemental Parent Education Intervention to Enhance the Efficacy of keepin’ it REAL
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)
Culturally-Specific Substance Abuse Prevention for Urban American Indian Youth
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)
Acculturation and Health of Mexican-American and Chinese-American Youth (Pilot Study)
Longitudinal Pathways Linking Acculturation and Family Factors to Risky Sexual Behavior, Substance Use and Depressive Symptoms among Mexican-American and Chinese-American Youth
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
Funding:
Familias Sanas (Healthy Families)
A Culturally Grounded Approach to Improve the Interconception Care of Latina Mothers
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)
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)
keepin’ it REAL Adaptation Trial
Drug Resistance Strategies IV
Principal Investigator: Flavio Marsiglia (Arizona component)
Funding: National Institutes of Health/ National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2003-2008 (Grant # R01DA005629)
keepin’ it REAL: Contextual Moderators of Program Effects
Drug Resistance Strategies: The Next Generation
Principal Investigators: Flavio Marsiglia & Stephen Kulis
Funding: National Institutes of Health/ National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2001-2003 (Grant # R01DA14825)
keepin’ it REAL Efficacy Trial
Drug Resistance Strategies III
Principal Investigator: Flavio Marsiglia (Arizona component)
Funding: National Institutes of Health/ National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1997-2001 (Grant # R01DA14825)