Projects & Research

Year	Project	Funding
2008	Radio series on Disabilities in South Asians (EBC radio)	Christopher and Dana Reeves Foundation
2010	Conference: Addressing Health Disparities and Health Literacy Challenges in South Asian Community	RWJ Foundation; Verizon Foundation; Merck; Novartis
2010-2012	Community Needs Survey: Health Care Practices of the Foreign Born Asian Indians in the US	SATHI
2013-ongoing	Cultural Competence Training for Health Providers	SATHI
2014-2018	Joining Efforts in Enforcing Vitality and Nutrition (JEEVAN)	RWJ Medical Students Club

Year	Project	Funding
2013-2018	South Asian Health Awareness About Stroke (SAHAS)	NJ Office of Minority and Multicultural Health
2013	Conference: Identity, Culture and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in South Asians	Rutgers Global
2009-2010	Chronic Disease Self Management Project	NJ Office of Minority and Multicultural Health
2014	Conference: Stroke in Minority Communities: Partnership for Prevention	Rutgers Global
2017-2018	SATHI-SEHAT: Temple-based nutritional intervention	NJ Healthy Communities Network
2019-ongoing	NJ Asian Cohort	IFH-RWJ Foundation

Year	Project	Funding
2007	Your Child & You radio series	RWJMS-Department of Pediatrics
2010-2013	Stay on Track nutrition video game	Novartis; American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI)
2010-2011	Thalassemia outreach and education project for South Asians	New York Mid-Atlantic Consortium for Genetic and Newborn Screening
2013	Conference: Caring for South Asian Families – Maternal and Child Health Issues in Practice	March of Dimes; Novo Nordisk
2013-2015	Adverse Outcomes among South Asian Indian Births in NJ	Rutgers School of Public Health
2016-2022	CHALO (Child Health Action to Lower Obesity)	National Institute of Minority Health and Disparities; Albert Einstein School of Medicine
2017	Safe Sleep in Asian Indian Infants	State of NJ SIDS Registry

Year	Project	Funding
2013-2016	SATHI-Infectious Disease Outreach Project (HIV surveys)	NJ Department of Health
2017-2018	SATHI-HIV Health Information Campaign targeting South Asian Americans	Office of Minority Health Research Coordination
2014-2017	Travel Wisdom/Health Talker Project “Destination India”	CDC, Health Talker Inc.
2017-2019	Latent TB Outreach Project	SATHI, Rutgers Global TB Institute, St. Peters University Hospital

Year	Project	Funding
2012	Smokeless tobacco use in South Asians in NJ	National Cancer Institute
2014	Culturally adapted behavioral intervention to improve colorectal cancer screening	Cancer Institute of NJ
2015	Conference: Improving Mental Health In South Asian Communities	Rutgers Global
2021-Ongoing	A Culture-Centered Approach to Assessing the Mental Health Needs of Adolescents and Young Adults of South Asian Descent	Rutgers CTSA and Rutgers Research Council