Southeast Collaborative

Southeast Collaborative for Innovative and Equitable Solutions to Chronic Disease Disparities

The burden of chronic disease disparities is most evident among African American and Hispanic/Latino populations in the southeastern United States. To address these pervasive health inequities, the Southeast Collaborative for Innovative and Equitable Solutions to Chronic Disease Disparities (Southeast Collaborative) brings together expertise at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, University of Miami School of Medicine, and Meharry Medical College to collaboratively develop and implement multi-level interventions. The Center partners with communities and leverages advances in technology and data science to reduce risk factors for and disparities in diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and related conditions among African American and Latino populations.

Partner Institutions

Projects

Accelerating Health Equity via Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs): Scalable and High Impact mHealth Precision Smoking Relapse Prevention

Southeast Collaborative: #1

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A Multilevel Intervention to Reduce Disparities in Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Related Cardiometabolic Outcomes

Southeast Collaborative: #2

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Team

Leadership

Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI

Principal Investigator (MPI)

Nancy Cox, PhD

Principal Investigator (MPI)

Stephania Miller-Hughes, PhD, MS, MSCI

Principal Investigator (MPI)

Roy Weiss, PhD, MD

Principal Investigator (MPI)

Projects

Naresh Punjabi, MD, PhD

Principal Investigator

Ernesto Bernal-Mizrachi, MD

Co-Investigator

Douglas Wallace, MD

Co-Investigator

Phabiola Herrera Aldana, MD

Project Manager

Cores

Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI

Director

Jabári Ichimura, BS

Project Manager

Yasemin Akdas, PhD, MPH, MA

Operations Lead

Olveen Carrasquillo, MPH, MD

Director

Leah Alexander, MPH, PhD

Member

Carolyn (Carey) Szetela, PhD

Member

Velma McBride Murry, PhD

Member

Rocío Bustamante, MSCTI

Project Manager

Robert Taylor, MPA

Project Manager

LaMonica Stewart, PhD

Director

William Scott, PhD

Associate Director

David Haas, MD

Associate Director

Denise Holland, MA

Project Manager

Alex Cheng, PhD

Member

Stephania Miller-Hughes, PhD, MS, MSCI

Member

Todd Gary, PhD

Member

Olveen Carrasquillo, MPH, MD

Member

Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI

Member

Naresh Punjabi, MD, PhD

Member

Phabiola Herrera Aldana, MD

Member

Claudia Barajas

Member

Lisa Hamilton, PhD

Member

Keith King

Member

Lilliam Lopez

Member

Patricia Dorcius, MCHES, MD, MPH

Member

Working Groups

Alex Cheng, PhD

Member

Olveen Carrasquillo, MPH, MD

Member

Rocío Bustamante, MSCTI

Member

Robert Taylor, MPA

Member

Ana Riccio, MD

Member

David Haas, MD

Member

William Scott, PhD

Member

Claudia Barajas

Member

Jabári Ichimura, BS

Member

Partner Institutions

Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI

Nancy Cox, PhD

Alex Cheng, PhD

David Haas, MD

Jabári Ichimura, BS

Velma McBride Murry, PhD

Yasemin Akdas, PhD, MPH, MA

Roy Weiss, PhD, MD

Rocío Bustamante, MSCTI

Olveen Carrasquillo, MPH, MD

Phabiola Herrera Aldana, MD

Naresh Punjabi, MD, PhD

William Scott, PhD

Douglas Wallace, MD

Natalie Mondesir

Stephania Miller-Hughes, PhD, MS, MSCI

Leah Alexander, MPH, PhD

Todd Gary, PhD

Denise Holland, MA

Carolyn (Carey) Szetela, PhD

Robert Taylor, MPA

LaMonica Stewart, PhD

Relative predictive value of sociodemographic factors for chronic diseases among All of Us participants: a descriptive analysis

Interventions for HIV prevention and treatment among people of Haitian descent: a scoping review

Articles

New Collaborative to Address Chronic Disease Disparities in Southeast US

04/05/2022

NIH Grant to Address Chronic Diseases That Affect Populations with Health Disparities

01/13/2022