Current Topics of Research

HDSHC Faculty Awarded Prestigious Grants

Center is Awarded Grant to Study Minority Health and Health Disparities

Principal Investigator and Center Director, Dr. Flavio F. Marsiglia (School of Social Work) and Research Team with Dr. Olga Idriss Davis, Co-Principal Investigator, Associate Professor, Arizona State University, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, received a five-year renewable $7,178,038 grant from the National Center on Minority Health and Health

Disparities establishing the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (SIRC) as a National Institutes of Health Center of Excellence to explore the complex factors influencing minority health and health disparities among the racial and ethnic minorities in the Southwest. Other co-Principal Investigators from Arizona State University include: Dr. Eddie Brown (American Indian Studies), Dr. Felipe Castro (Psychology), Dr. Mary Gillmore (Director, School of Social Work) and Dr. Stephen Kulis (School of Sociology and Family Dynamics).

U.S. Department of Education Safe and Drug Free Schools Program

Linda C. Lederman, Professor of Human Communication and Dean of Social Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University, is the Principal Investigator on U.S. Department of Education Safe and Drug Free Schools Program, $450,000. CFDA #84.184H for 2007-2009 entitled First You Have to Get Their Attention: Population Level Programming as the First Step in Reducing Dangerous Drinking and Changing the Culture of the University to Support Healthy Choices. This is Dean Lederman's sixth grant from he U.S. Department of Education. The Project Director is Karen Moses, Director of ASU's Wellness and Health Prevention Program at ASU. Among the grant team working with Lederman and Moses on the project are two Hugh Downs School PhD students, Aaron Hess, Research Associate, and Lisa Menegator, Research Assistant.