External evaluation of Closing the Gap, Florida Department of Health’s grant program
The Florida Department of Health (DOH) Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE) administers the Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Closing the Gap (CTG) grant program (section 381.7351-56 and 20.43 (9) Florida Statutes). For two decades, the CTG grant program has awarded funds to grantees to stimulate the development of community-based and neighborhood-based projects to improve health outcomes. Projects funded through the CTG grant program must be associated with one or more of the following ten statutorily designated priority areas:
- Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
- Adult and Child Immunizations
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Diabetes
- HIV/AIDS
- Lupus
- Maternal and Infant Mortality
- Oral Healthcare
- Sickle Cell Disease
CTG grant awardees are expected to use evidence-based interventions (EBIs); advance health outcomes; forge sustainable cross-sector collaborative partnerships; enhance prevention and health promotion efforts focused towards CTG priority areas; and deliver activities and services in an appropriate manner to communities, including persons with disabilities. FIU-CBRI served as the evaluation partner for this program.
Principal Investigators: Melissa Howard, Ph.D., MPH & Hui Huang, Ph.D., MSW, MS, MA
Co-Investigators: Eric Wagner, Ph.D., Michelle Hospital, Ph.D. , Staci Leon Morris, Psy.D., Michael Anastario, Ph.D., Gladys Ibañez, Ph.D., Zoran Bursac, Ph.D., & Nana “Aisha” Garba, M.D., Ph.D., MPH
Project Coordinator: Katherine Perez, MSW, MPH | kaperez@fiu.edu | (305) 348-4721