For almost 25 years, the Rural and Minority Health Research Center at the University
of South Carolina has focused on leveling health and social inequality for rural and
minority communities and has secured more than 150 annual grants and contracts outside
of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy research center cooperative agreement
. This funding supports the Center's efforts to disseminate important research to
communities, train the next generation of rural researchers, and support the career
development of our faculty, staff, and students.
Current Projects
Addressing Rural Cancer Disparities via Proactive Smoking Cessation Treatment within
Primary Care: A Hybrid Type 1 Effectiveness-Implementation Trial of a Scalable Smoking
Cessation Electronic Visit
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Funder: Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)/NCI/NIH
Project Purpose: This trial involves evaluation of a proactive smoking cessation intervention
to address rural cancer disparities. Dr. Hung is a rural health expert and her work
informed the conceptual model for the e-visit intervention. Dr. Hung serves as the
primary rural health expert on this proposal and will assist with trial management
and oversight. Aim 2 of this proposal involves implementation evaluation of the smoking
cessation e-visit and examination of implementation cost is one component of this
Aim.
Rural Health Research Center Program 2023-2024
Project Period: -
Funder: Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA)/HHS
Project Purpose: The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) currently funds Rural Health Research Centers and Rural Health Policy Analysis
Initiatives, located throughout the nation. All research of these designated centers
is conducted on a national scale. See projects currently in progress by all centers.
SC MIECHV Coordinated State Evaluation(CSE): Understanding Comprehensive, High-Quality
Leadership (CHQL) and Implementation Quality in the SC MIECHV Program
Project Period: -
Funder: Children's Trust of South Carolina/HRSA Maternal and Child Health
Project Purpose: To conceptualize and measure comprehensive, high-quality leadership (CHQL) and to
examine the association between CHQL and measures of implementation quality in the
SC MIECHV home visiting program.
Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services through National Partnerships to
Improve and Protect the Nation’s Health: Development and implementation of a culturally
sensitive, comprehensive, sexual health approach to reducing STIs and HIV for rural
providers and Black/African American men
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Funder: National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Inc./CDC/HHS
Project Purpose: The Rural and Minority Health Research Center at USC will partner
with an HBCU to develop culturally sensitive and appropriate STI materials for both
patients and providers in rural health clinics including the use of prophylactic use
of doxycycline and a sexual health paradigm. The RMHRC/USC will develop a draft peer
reviewed manuscript and provide a project presentation of the completed education
materials.
Upstate Healthy Start 2023 - 2028
Project Period: -
Funder: Prisma Health - Midlands/HRSA/HHS
Project Purpose: Conduct the local evaluation of Upstate Healthy Start in accordance
with the most current Health Resources & Services Administration (“HRSA”) approved evaluation plan;
Challenge the conventional. Create the exceptional. No Limits.