| Faculty research chronic disease in Black communities under new grant Six members of the Division of Behavioral Sciences (Drs. April Carcone, Rhonda Dailey, Deborah Ellis, Samiran Ghosh, Steven Korzeniewski, and Elizabeth Towner) will play key roles in a newly awarded center grant from The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to Wayne State University. This $18.15 million award provides funding for five years to establish The Addressing Cardiometabolic Health Inequities by Early PreVEntion in the GREAT LakEs Region, or ACHIEVE GREATER, Center. The Center will use community-based interventions to fight inequities in hypertension, heart failure and coronary heart disease in the Black population in Detroit and Cleveland. |
