Dr. Christopher Gonzalez was awarded $152,550 per year from the NIDDK for a 2-year Diversity Supplement to Martin Shapiro's R01 "Disparities in the Diffusion of Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapy for Hepatitis C among Baby Boomers: A Mixed-Methods Study" Through the Supplement, Dr. Gonzalez will study social determinants that affect HCV care among Hispanic adults, with a focus on social connectedness and acculturation.

Congratulations to Dr. Roger Figueroa et al. who won an award for their poster entitled "A Latent Profile Analysis of the Food Environment in the Brooklyn Borough, NYC" displayed at the NIH Food Insecurity, Neighborhood Food Environment, and Nutrition Health Disparities: State of the Science Virtual Workshop. The collaborative analysis of the population level survey was designed by Dr. Erica Phillips.

(View poster and award announcement.)

Drs. Susana Morales and Christopher Gonzalez received the 2021 Public Service Leadership Award from the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDCo) at their annual Benefit and Ballgame at Yankee Stadium on Monday, September 20th. The Award recognizes the invaluable work they have done and continue to do to improve vaccine equity in the Bronx community through contextualized education.

Dr. Christopher Gonzalez's abstract, titled "Development of a Practice-Based Community Outreach Intervention to Address Inequities in COVID-19 Vaccinations​​," was selected as an Oral Presentation for the 2021 Annual Weill Cornell Medicine Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Poster Symposium. This project, which aimed to increase vaccination rates among Black and Hispanic patients of the Weill Cornell outpatient practices, was led by Dr. Judy Tung.

This talk will explore the modern evolution and contemporary extent of wealth inequality in the United States and its relation to the design of health insurance benefits. The presentation will feature new and ongoing empirical research about high-deductible insurance and its relationship with racial wealth inequality, and the level of administrative overhead in private versus public managed care models for Medicaid delivery.

Naomi Zewde is an assistant professor in health policy and management at the CUNY School of Public Health in the city of New York. She studies how public policies can reduce inequality in health insurance and in wealth. Naomi is also a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and formerly a post doctoral research scientist at the Columbia University School of Social Work, in the Center on Poverty and Social Policy.

Friday, October 1st | 12:00 - 1:30pm EST | Virtual: Zoom Link

The CCSS QuIRI Small Grants Program is intended to provide up to $2,000.00 in funding for qualitative research expenses (such as equipment, transcription, and participant compensation, publishing costs, etc.) to Cornell faculty, post-docs, & doctoral students in the social sciences. Projects which may lead to other funding or help move a project to completion and / or publication will be given priority. Doctoral students must be post A-exam to receive a grant. Grad students can apply pre-A exams, but the funds will not be transferred after the A exams have been successfully completed.

Faculty who apply to this should not be dissuaded from applying to the CCSS Research, Conference or Roper Center Grants. These smaller amounts of funding are different from other CCSS funding and intended to help qualitative faculty in their research.

Application should include name, rank, department(s)/unit(s), project title, 500-word description of the project, budget, and budget justification. If you are a grad student, please also include a letter of support from your PhD committee chair. Alternatively, your committee chair may send the letter to our director at quiri@cornell.edu. All materials should be compiled into a single pdf for submission. Applications are due October 15th, 2021 and will be reviewed by a member of our leadership team.

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The QuIRI Faculty Working Groups Program is intended for faculty-led writing and / or reading groups of social science faculty who employ qualitative research methods. Groups may be themed around specific methods, analytical approaches, as well as software and methods training. Groups may also explore theoretical or empirical synergies. Groups should include 4 to 5 members per group including the faculty leader and ideally represent at least two different departments/units. There may be doctoral students in the group, but it must be led by a faculty member. Each group member will receive up to $500 for research materials / equipment, participant compensation, software, etc. Applications are due October 15th, 2021.

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