Health Inequities and Global Health Branch

This program supports research focused on generating new, generalizable knowledge regarding optimal implementation of proven-effective, evidence-based interventions, strategies, and guidelines that can reduce the domestic and global burden of heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders. Areas of interest include research focused on how innovations can be introduced and scaled up for widespread use across complex settings in low- and middle-income countries; strategies to identify components of health systems that allow for embedding and sustaining effective evidence-based care in communities and clinical settings in low- and middle-income countries and small-island developing states with limited research capacity; studies that leverage the global infrastructure for HIV and other communicable disease care to build on and advance the prevention, treatment, and control of heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders in people living with HIV; research on sustainably adopting, adapting, and scaling up proven-effective heart, lung, blood, or sleep disorder interventions in low-resource settings; and research advancing our understanding of the U.S. health disadvantages in comparison with other high-income countries.

This research program supports research aimed at reducing and eliminating disparities in heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders; achieving health equity; and improving population health for all.  Areas of interest include research focused on identifying effective ways to optimize the use of evidence-based interventions, treatments, and services in diverse populations (e.g., racial and ethnic groups, those with comorbid conditions, all age groups) and settings (e.g., across geographic locations and within diverse socioeconomic settings). Other research interests address the development, implementation, and dissemination of community-based, multilevel interventions as approaches to reducing heart, lung, blood, and sleep health disparities; as well as the adaptation, adoption, and scale-up of evidence-based interventions, strategies, and approaches.

This program supports research training and career development activities that help build the next generation of research investigators and clinical scientists who are well-equipped to implement effective evidence-based interventions to reduce health inequities—and who can themselves add to the evidence base for effective dissemination and implementation research on heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders.

This program supports research training and career development, research mentoring, and research capacity-building and infrastructure development to develop a multidisciplinary heart, lung, blood, and sleep research workforce in low- and middle-income countries and small-island developing states capable of conducting effective global heart, lung, blood, and sleep implementation research.

• The 2nd Annual Saunders-Watkins Memorial Lecture – Uniting the Vision for Health Equity through Partnerships
• Elijah Saunders & Levi Watkins Memorial Lecture: Training and Mentoring the Next Generation of Health Equity Reporters: Insights from the Field
• HIV/AIDS Funding Opportunities