At NYU Langone’s Center for Healthful Behavior Change, we use research grants to develop, evaluate, and disseminate behavioral interventions to help reduce chronic disease and improve health in medically underserved communities. Our funding comes from the National Institutes of Health and other public and private organizations. We often make our proprietary datasets available for research collaborations. If you are interested in accessing data gathered from current or past grants, learn more about our data repository.

We have current active grants in the following fields.

Cardiovascular and Maternal Health, Lifestyle Change, Weight Management

bRidging maternal lifestyle Education, and counSeling with communiTy health wORkers and health Equity (RESTORE) - Phase II Principal Investigator: Natasha J. Williams, EdD, MPH Funder: NHLBI – West Stat Inc.

Time-restricted eating: Is it an efficacious tool for weight loss maintenance? Principal Investigator: Collin J. Popp, PhD Funder: NIH/NHLBI

Incorporation of a Hypertension Working Group into the Jackson Heart Study Principal investigator: Tanya M. Spruill, PhD Funder: NIH/NHLBI – University of Alabama at Birmingham

RESTORE (AddREssing Social Determinants TO pRevent hypErtension) Network Principal investigator: Tanya M. Spruill, PhD Funder: American Heart Association

Partners IN CONTROL: Using Remote MonitorINg teChnology with cOmmuNity healTh woRkers to support hypertensiOn management for Latinx patients Principal investigator: Antoinette M. Schoenthaler, EdD Funder:NIH

Addressing antihypertensive medication adherence through EHR-enabled teamlets in primary care Principal investigator: Antoinette M. Schoenthaler, EdD Funder: NIH/NHLBI

Diabetes

iMatter2: An AI-driven approach to supercharge a novel digital patient-reported outcomes tool for diabetes management Principal investigator: Antoinette M. Schoenthaler, EdD Funder: AHRQ

Personalized Dietary Management in Type 2 Diabetes Principal Investigator: Collin J Popp, PhD Funder: NINR

Epilepsy

Managing Epilepsy Well (MEW) Network Collaborating Center Principal investigator: Tanya M. Spruill, PhD Funder: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Mental Health

Telephone-based mindfulness training to reduce blood pressure in Black women with hypertension in the Jackson Heart Study Principal investigator: Tanya M. Spruill, PhD Funder: NIMHD

Neuroscience and Neurological Disorders

The mediating role of Slow Wave Sleep and Vascular Risk Factors on Alzheimer Disease related disparity between African-Americans and non-Hispanic Whites Principal investigator: Michael Bubu Funder: NIA