Past Projects

Project Details

Aim
Partnership (Lundquist/Harbor-UCLA & Bright Star Charter Schools) to examine and explore the effects of a national school mental health club on mental illness stigma for students at three LAUSD high schools. 

Partnership Activities 
Surveys, interviews, focus groups, community conference on the topic.

Manuscripts: In progress.

Project Details

Aim
Community health promotion by barbers (trusted peers) with specialty-level hypertension medication management delivered in the barbershops by clinical pharmacists led by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. 

Partnership Activities 
Blood pressure screening and management done in local barbershops.

Manuscripts: 

• A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Blood-Pressure Reduction in Black Barbershops

Featured Related Media: 

• The Associated Press | Mar 12, 2018, Barbershop study trimmed black men's hair - and blood pressure
• Slate | Mar 15, 2018, Why Not Get Your Drugs at the Barbershop?
• Los Angeles Times | Mar 13, 2018, How visits to the barbershop reduce blood pressure in African American men

Project Details

Aim 
Capacity building for church promotion of cancer screening, implementing community health educators to identify, provide counseling, and follow up to congregants or community members who have not received recommended cancer screenings. 

Partnership Activities 
Training of health educators, church and participant recruitment, evaluation of outcome, and potential effectiveness of the intervention. Community health conferences were organized highlighting project updates and results.

Manuscripts: 

• Promoting Cancer Screening in Partnership With Health Ministries in 9 African American Churches in South Los Angeles: An Implementation Pilot Study

Project Details 

Aim 
Partnership (UCLA & LA Unified School District) to promote greater health and wellness outcomes in at-risk older adults, while simultaneously supporting academic and behavioral outcomes for children. Places older community volunteers into grades K-3 classrooms to help students improve reading and math skills.

Partnership Activities 
Implementation support, data collection for adults and children, outcome analysis.

Featured Related Website: 

• GenX Project (UCLA)

Project Details 

Aim
Multifaceted community partnered study that aims to improve health and health care in a predominantly African American and Latino community in South Los Angeles. 

Partnership Activities 
Study protocol, community events, household surveys, data collection.

Manuscripts: 

• Community Partnering for Behavioral Health Equity: Public Agency and Community Leaders’ Views of Its Promise and Challenge
• Strategies to Build Trust and Recruit African American and Latino Community Residents for Health Research: A Cohort Study
• The Healthy Community Neighborhood Initiative: Rationale and Design
• The Los Angeles Healthy Community Neighborhood Initiative: A Ten Year Experience in Building and Sustaining a Successful Community-Academic Partnership
• A Window of Opportunity: Visions and Strategies for Behavioral Health Policy Innovation