Gabriela Buccini and Melva Thompson-Robinson (both Public Health) received a $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Common Fund within the office of the director for a five-year project entitled "Pathways to integrate maternal-child health and nutrition interventions to transform equity and human potential." 

It was awarded under the funding opportunity announcement for Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity at Minority Serving Institutions, which aims to fund innovative and collaborative projects to produce a significant impact in preventing, reducing, or eliminating health disparities and advancing health equity.

Buccini and Thompson-Robinson will collaborate with state partners as well as community partners within the West Las Vegas Promise Neighborhood to develop a system-level intervention to integrate maternal-child health and nutrition to reduce food insecurity levels and its harmful health consequences among maternal-child dyads living in this historically racial/ethnic marginalized community.

UNLV co-investigators include Manoj Sharma, Timothy Grigsby, Jason Flatt from the department of environmental and occupational health as well as Dodds Simangan, Oriaku Kas-Osoka, and Nora Doyle from the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV. 

View the NIH press release here.