Reducing Racial Disparities Through Improved Hypertension Control in African Americans

Project Overview

7th Funding Cycle Development Award
     Project Start Date: 1/1/2012
     Project End Date: 12/31/2013

Project Goal Statement: To develop, implement and evaluate a portable, cost-effective hypertension control strategy in a primary care setting serving low-income African Americans.

Award Amount: $188,955

Community Partners:
Primary Community Partner: Allison Kos, DO, Progressive Community Health Centers
Additional community partner organization names:

• American Heart Association
• Center for Urban Population Health
• Lindsay Heights Neighborhood Health Alliance
• Milwaukee Area Health Education Center
• Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association

Academic Partner:
Primary Academic Partner: Theodore Kotchen, MD, Department of Medicine

Project Progress Summary Reports:
     Project Progress Report Summary 1/1/2012 - 8/31/2012

Affiliated Web Pages:
     American Heart Association
     Center for Urban Population Health
     Lindsay Heights Neighborhood Health Alliance
     Milwaukee Area Health Education Center
     Progressive Community Health Centers
     Wisconsin Primary Health Care Association

Project Dissemination Efforts (as reported by the project partners)

• Articles
  • Article in Washington Park Beat community newspaper, Feb 2012 issue, about the HWPP grant and hypertension project
• Poster
  • Presented poster at Leading the Way Joint Conference – Tully M, Kos A, Witcher C, Kotchen T. Health is Your Wealth: Focus on Hypertension-a Research Project.  Leading the Way: A Joint Conference of Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin and Wisconsin Partnership Program. September 27, 2012.
• Outreach Materials / Events
  • Developed handouts for group sessions based on curriculum from the American Heart Association’s “Life Simple Seven”
  • Conducted Community Health Worker training session (January-September 2012)
  • Community Health Worker participated in the Milwaukee Area Health Alliance Best Practices Conference (June 2012)