Project HERO: HPV Education & Resources for the U.S. Vietnamese Population
Vietnamese communities in the U.S. have high cervical cancer rates and low HPV vaccine uptake. Project HERO focuses on:
- Exploring what makes it hard or easy for Vietnamese parents in the U.S. to use digital health tools to learn more about HPV vaccination for their adolescents
- Engaging community partners in adapting and developing culturally-relevant digital health tools targeting HPV vaccination among the U.S. Vietnamese population
- Using an innovative research framework to test the impacts of different culturally-relevant digital health tools to increase HPV vaccination among the U.S. Vietnamese population
This research is funded through a KL2/K12 award (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences), a pilot award (Chicago Chronic Condition Equity Network, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities), and a K01 award (National Cancer Institute).
Project HOPE T2DM: Home Care Workers’ Support for Older Asian Americans’ Management of Type 2 Diabetes
Project SMS-HPV: Strategic Messaging for Supporting Health Equity in HPV Vaccination in Immigrant Communities
This project will engage multi-ethnic immigrant parents in a user-centered design, mixed-methods research process to co-create text messages promoting HPV vaccination in Vietnamese, Spanish, and English. The long-term goal is to develop effective, scalable HPV vaccine promotion resources for multi-ethnic immigrant populations to decrease HPV-related cancers. In addition, our project is expected to lead to increased research capacity and bidirectional learning and higher parental engagement with adolescent well-being and parental leadership to improve community health.
This project is funded through the Research Grant from the Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities and the Northwestern University Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute.
Project CARE: Community Programs to Address Food Insecurity among Asian Americans
Project CARE explores community-based programs to address food insecurity faced by Asian Americans in Chicagoland. This study is funded through a Race & Justice Collaborative Fund award.
Project Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL – Chicago)
Project CEAL investigates barriers and facilitators of the referral to and utilization of mental health services provided by a community-based organization in Chinatown in Chicago. It is funded through the NIH Community Engagement Alliance.