Muzik and Weaver awarded OVPR anti-racism grants

Maria Muzik and Addie Weaver are part of research teams named to receive grant funding from the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) to advance knowledge in areas related to anti-racism.

The research topics being funded include peripartum health care equality, uneven disciplinary actions in early childhood education, and the disproportionate negative effect of artificial intelligence on Black artists.

OVPR’s Research Catalyst and Innovation Program supports research and scholarship that addresses complex societal racial inequalities to inform systemic action that achieves equity and justice.

The OVPR grants are jointly administered and advanced in partnership with the National Center for Institutional Diversity’s Anti-Racism Collaborative, which aims to support and amplify the work of anti-racism scholars at U-M.

The grants will support multidisciplinary teams of faculty from 13 U-M schools and colleges, as well as collaborators from universities like Portland State University, the University of Johannesburg and Michigan State University.

Centering Women’s Voices for an Intervention with Health Care Providers: Reducing Disparities during the Peripartum Period
Team leads: Cecilia Martinez-Torteya, Maria Muzik and Angela Johnson (Medical School), and Alytia Levendosky (Michigan State University)

Goals: In partnership with the Michigan Clinical Consultation and Care Program and a community advisory board of peripartum women and health care providers, researchers will develop a perinatal health care provider intervention that reduces medical discrimination and enhances provider-patient interactions.

FARWell: The Formula for Anti-Racist Wellness and Therapy
Team leads: Addie Weaver and Joseph Himle (School of Social Work), Donte Boyd (The Ohio State University), and Michael Henry and Hedieh Briggs (Washtenaw County My Brother’s Keeper)

Goals: Through a community-university partnership between My Brother’s Keeper, Formula 734, and social work researchers at U-M and The Ohio State University, this project will support the development and evaluation of a transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral therapy for depression and anxiety, designed for and by young Black men.

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