Researchers from the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis have been awarded Public Impact Research Initiative (PIRI) grants from the UC Davis’ Public Scholarship and Engagement.
In the Public Impact Research Initiative's second year, Public Scholarship and Engagmenet awarded nine faculty grants for research projects done in collaboration with non-university partners.
Youth from the Karuk Tribe and a professor from the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis teamed up to find out how they could make a community healthier.
As part of the Public Impact Research Initiative, Public Scholarship and Engagement recently awarded grants to support the development of new research collaborations and to deepen, sustain, or evaluate existing collaborative research.
Jann Murray-García knows health inequities, policy disparities and detriments to living well in marginalized communities are best addressed in the environments where they occur, when students leave the classroom and get out in the field. For that reason, she has been working for many years with community partners and her nursing students to address health inequality in California.
