Completed Studies
Completed SIRC Studies
Completed SIRC studies led by SIRC Investigators and affiliated ASU researchers
Arizona CEAL COVID Consortium (AC3): Promoting Health Equity during the COVID Pandemic
Principal Investigators: 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
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.
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.
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)
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.