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UNCG awarded $6.6 million health grant
Cynthia Marts
Issue date: 10/30/07 Section: Campus News
Recently, UNCG won a 6.6 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Heath. The NIH, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is a federal agency based on supporting the research of medicine.
This money will be used by UNCG's group TRIAD (Teamwork in Research and Intervention to Alleviate Disparities) to start a group of five year projects focused on helping out community minorities with problems related to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and HIV/AIDS.
The university intends to use this grant to benifit the whole community. The Piedmont Triad has exeptionally high rates of these problems, and this project is one of many that the NIH is supporting in hopes of solving this. The goal is to reduce the cases of these medical problems in the local minority community, and to promote healthier living among that social group.
The different parts of these projects vary from free teaching sessions, where people can learn to eat healthier, maintain weight, and improve physical activity to prevent diabetes, and a study on Latino adults with diabetes working with them to prevent complications through home visits and blood screenings.
The grant will also cover individual meetings with young black women and mothers to discuss and receive information about risky sexual behaivor and the prevention of AIDS, and free assessments of black males with high blood pressure, with blood screenings, weight mesurements, meal patterns, etc.
Dr. Debra Wallace of the UNCG nursing department is the principal investigator for the project, and has high hopes for its success.
"Part of this university's role in the community is to find ways to help people maintain their health," Wallace commented on the university's website.
Amanda Kohn, a sophomore and English major, had mixed feelings on the project.
"I like that they're going out and helping the community," said Kohn. "I do support that, but it seems like there are so many other problems they could be fixing, something right here, right on this campus. They don't seem to have money to fix things in our campus community, yet they're getting grants to fix things outside the campus that doesn't have so much to do with us. They should help the community, but I feel like there are more pressing problems at hand. I just hope it benefits our community."
This money will be used by UNCG's group TRIAD (Teamwork in Research and Intervention to Alleviate Disparities) to start a group of five year projects focused on helping out community minorities with problems related to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and HIV/AIDS.
The university intends to use this grant to benifit the whole community. The Piedmont Triad has exeptionally high rates of these problems, and this project is one of many that the NIH is supporting in hopes of solving this. The goal is to reduce the cases of these medical problems in the local minority community, and to promote healthier living among that social group.
The different parts of these projects vary from free teaching sessions, where people can learn to eat healthier, maintain weight, and improve physical activity to prevent diabetes, and a study on Latino adults with diabetes working with them to prevent complications through home visits and blood screenings.
The grant will also cover individual meetings with young black women and mothers to discuss and receive information about risky sexual behaivor and the prevention of AIDS, and free assessments of black males with high blood pressure, with blood screenings, weight mesurements, meal patterns, etc.
Dr. Debra Wallace of the UNCG nursing department is the principal investigator for the project, and has high hopes for its success.
"Part of this university's role in the community is to find ways to help people maintain their health," Wallace commented on the university's website.
Amanda Kohn, a sophomore and English major, had mixed feelings on the project.
"I like that they're going out and helping the community," said Kohn. "I do support that, but it seems like there are so many other problems they could be fixing, something right here, right on this campus. They don't seem to have money to fix things in our campus community, yet they're getting grants to fix things outside the campus that doesn't have so much to do with us. They should help the community, but I feel like there are more pressing problems at hand. I just hope it benefits our community."
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