Last Mile Grant Supplement Awardees and their Projects

Spring 2024

Christine Dehlendorf, MD, MAS

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Sarah Wulf, MPH

Project:

Abortion Care in Federally Qualified Health Centers

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Ushma Upadhyay, PhD, MPH

Project:

Disseminating the Science on Telehealth for Abortion

Fall 2023

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Kristen Marchi, MPH

Project:

Disseminating the Centering Black Mothers Report: Elevating the Health of Black Moms and Babies

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Shuvo Roy, PhD

Professor, Bioengineering, School of Pharmacy

Project:

Cost Benefits to Medicare of and Implantable Bioartificial Kidney for Treatment of End State Renal Disease Patients

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Nyinnika Palmer, DrPH, MPH

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James Harrison, PhD

Project:

Health Equity for COVID-19 Research with Community Health Centers

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Erica Sedlander, DrPH, MPH

Project:

Disseminating a Novel Gender Norms Measure to Stakeholders in Uganda

Spring 2023

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Jenny Liu, PhD, MPP, MA

Associate Professor, Institute for Health Policy Studies, School of Medicine

Project:

AmbassADDOrs for Health Pilot Study

The IMPACT funds have allowed us to produce highly effective dissemination products that are not typically included in our research budget. We have found these types of products to be very useful across a variety of settings and audiences, and as such they can greatly expand the audience to which the research findings and concepts are disseminated. These products also help us to continue our community and stakeholder engagement long after the study has ended. We are very grateful to have had the opportunity to use IMPACT funds - and hope that this mechanism continues in the future.

Jenny Liu, PhD, MPP, MA

Associate Professor, Institute for Health Policy Studies, School of Medicine

With the IMPACT Last Mile Grant Supplement, we were able to produce two videos, a two-page brief, and a case study.

Empowering Women's Health: The Malkia Klabu (Queen Club) Program

The first video describes the results of the AmbassADDOrs (ADDO) for Health Pilot in plain language, including the pilot’s effectiveness.

Malkia Klabu: Helping Girls Get Reproductive Health Services

The second video, a live-action short film, shares the story of a young girl who uses the Malkia Klabu intervention upon the advice of a friend. The short film provides a window into how the ADDO pilot worked in the real world and its potential for impact.

The ADDO Impact Brief summarizes the background and rationale for the pilot, the results, and the current follow-up intervention trial. The brief includes references for ADDO pilot publications and discusses the newly funded Mwotaji study. The Mwotaji study will evaluate an adaption of the ADDO model in pharmacies.

Website: https://malkiaklabu.ucsf.edu/

Shuvo Roy, PhD

Professor, Bioengineering, School of Pharmacy

Project:

Advancing Medicare Policy to Pave the Way for Next-Generation Renal Replacement Technologies

This was EXCELLENT and much NEEDED funding since almost no other sources are available.

Shuvo Roy, PhD

Professor, Bioengineering, School of Pharmacy

We used the Supplement to support our presentation on The Kidney Project at the Congressional Life Sciences Fair in Washington, DC, in the summer of 2023. We highlighted the health burden of kidney disease on patients and costs to the government while informing the attendees on how new technologies could address these challenges. Two UCSF bioengineering graduate students attended the event and learned the value of advocacy and policies needed to advance the biomedical research enterprise. The funds were used to create printed materials and for partial travel support.

Printed Materials: Flyer & Poster

Priya Shankar, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, School of Medicine

Project: Adolescent Health Champions – Ugam Education Foundation

The IMPACT Last Mile Grant Supplement allowed Adolescent Health Champions (ACH) to prepare a policy brief that:

Summarized the impact of AHC’s peer education model in the Bokaro district of Jharkhand for the academic year 2022-2023, and
Gave policy recommendations to state officials on improving the health and leadership of girls at the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) residential secondary school.

We disseminated the brief amongst stakeholders: government officials in Bokaro and West Singhbhum, state-level officials in Ranchi, KGBV wardens, and the AHC field team. The IMPACT Last Mile Grant Supplement allowed AHC to engage the services of public policy consultant, Joy Bhattacharya, who worked on preparing this policy brief. Furthermore, funds from the grant also allowed AHC to secure the services of a designer to give the report a professional layout and graphics. Finally, the grant funds allowed the AHC co-founder Ricky Sharma and consultant Joy Bhattacharya to travel to Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand, and to other districts to meet with state and district-level officials. In these stakeholder meetings, the policy brief and its findings helped present a strong case for expanding AHC’s unique peer education model to more districts of Jharkhand. Because of these successful meetings, AHC was able to expand its adolescent health programming to 105 KGBVs in 9 districts of Jharkhand in the following academic year of 2023-2024.

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Mary Jue Xu, MD

Clinical Instructor, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine

Project:

Dissemination of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Research: Aiming to be Heard Around the World

It was incredibly valuable to have this funding to create tools and support the dissemination work for which our team did not have funding for. The access to a graphic designer was a great learning process for our team and we appreciated her setting our team up with templates that we could use moving forward. Finally, this process does serve as a model for out team in future studies to budget for dissemination early on.

Mary Jue Xu, MD

Clinical Instructor, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine

The Global Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Initiative is an international research collaboration focused on global otolaryngology research. The Last Mile Grant Supplement was valuable in improving our communication and advocacy. Specifically, the fees were used to upgrade our website with updated research projects and results. Additionally, access to a graphic designer helped our team create infographics, which will be used for data dissemination and advocacy with commentary pieces.

Website: https://www.globalohns.org/global-ent-ohns-workforce

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