There is a need to identify effective interventions for heart, lung, blood, and sleep diseases that could have a transformative population level impact on health inequities if expanded at the national level.

Recruitment of investigators who had or currently have R01 and equivalent grant awards from minority institutes to R01 study sections will diminish this under-representative situation.

What is the basis for relative resistance or vulnerabilities to obesity or related adverse health effects observed in various segments of population?

We need to identify and test the proven effective dissemination and implementation frameworks that are relevant to heart, lung, and blood disorders in order to scale up evidence-based interventions in real world settings, ultimately improving health equity among minority populations, including low income minority residents living in public housing.

Institutions that are less research intensive, which may characterize some of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions and tribal institutions with primarily minority faculty and/or student body, may need additional support for training researchers and for performing both hypothesis driven and student integrated research to provide an environment conducive with NIH efforts to enhance... more »

Institutions that are less research intensive, which may characterize some of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions and tribal institutions with primarily minority faculty and/or student body, may need additional support for training researchers and for performing both hypothesis driven and student integrated research to provide an environment conducive with NIH efforts to enhance... more »