CMS Awards Health Equity Funding To Two New Grantees Through The Minority Research Grant Program

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH) selected the 2020 grantees for the Minority Research Grant Program (MRGP). The University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, 40 miles north west of Dallas, was awarded funding for its Minority Obesity Vanquished with Education (MOVE) in Head Start project. Texas Southern University in Houston was awarded funding for its project, Development of Predictive Model and Social Determinants-based Interventions for Aggressive Prostate Cancer Among African-American Men. The MRGP grantees research critical health issues that have been shown to have significant disparities among racial and ethnic . . .