Roderick King, M.D., MPH, and Joseph West, Sc.D., two researchers from the Miller School's Department of Public Health Sciences, were recently awarded a two-year grant from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to address gaps in health equity, responsive care needs related to trauma, and adaptive lifestyle behaviors in young men.
The epidemiologic study and community-based intervention is a collaboration between the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Public Health Sciences, Miami-Dade County Juvenile Services Department, and the Florida Institute for Health Innovation (FIHI). The goal is to use Mobile Health Technology (mHealth) for screening, education and outreach, use mHealth applications to increase access to mental health and healthcare services and workforce development to vulnerable populations between the ages of 17 to 30.
“Our approach is innovative in that we are assessing for mental health, trauma and their association with multiple risk factors including comorbidities,” Dr. King said. “For this phase one of the intervention, we are measuring the opportunity costs that are associated with developing peer-to-peer community health specialists with capabilities for extending reach for healthcare services.”
[To read the whole article by the University of Miami, visit: https://www.publichealth.med.m...nitiative/index.html]
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