| Round 1 Grantees |
| Westside Health Services, Inc., New York |
| University of Southern California, California |
| University of California-Irvine, California |
| Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut |
| Olive View-UCLA -DREW, California |
| Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island, Rhode Island |
| Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority, Oklahoma |
| Cooper Green Hospital, Alabama |
| Morehouse School of Medicine, Georgia |
| Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, Massachusetts |
| Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Massachusetts |
| Round 2 Grantees |
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Cooper Green Hospital, Alabama
A Culturally Sensitive Intervention: Using Multi-Media Technology to Achieve Hypertension Control for Low-Income, Low-Literacy African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama

From left to right—Front Row: Sakeena Ahmed, Maribel Salas, Jeroan Allison, Wendy Horn, Sandral Hullett, Marc Sussman, Cheryl Holt; Back Row: Amandiy Liwo, John Trobaugh, Maria Pisu, Damien Larkin, Jocelyn Steward, Donald Marks
Not pictured: Thomas Houston, Sharina Person, Carol Ashton, Fareeda Saulawa
This intervention will utilize an interactive DVD distributed to African-American patients in Birmingham, Alabama to promote hypertension management. The DVD intervention will use storytelling to improve acceptance of, and adherence to, positive health messages that are currently resisted due to a number of factors. The intervention is grounded in patient activation theory and includes the participation of researchers who are prominent in this field. The team, many of whom are representative of the target community, has a long history of serving racial and ethnic groups with a high incidence of uncontrolled blood pressure and we believe the intervention will prove to be a good mechanism for addressing important and recurring health disparities found in the community.
Contact: Sandral Hullet, MD, MPH (hulletts@jccal.org)
Principal Investigators: Jeroan Allison, MD, MS Epi Sandral Hullett, MD, MPH
Team Members: Sakeena Ahmed, MPH Carol Ashton, MD, MPH Cheryl Holt, PhD Wendy Horn, PhD, MPH Thomas Houston, MD, MPH Damien Larkin, BS Amandiy Liwo, MD Donald Marks, MD, PhD Sharina Person, PhD Maria Pisu, PhD Maribel Salas, MD, PhD Fareeda Saulawa, BS Jocelyn Steward, MSM Marc Sussman, MSHA John Trobaugh, MFA
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