Yale ComPASS Health Equity Hub
ComPASS Health Equity Research Hub at Yale
This hub helps community leaders create and run programs to improve health for people affected by poverty, food insecurity, and social disadvantage.
Quick facts
| Grant type | NIH-funded research |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Yale University NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (New Haven, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11367904 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
From my perspective, Yale partners with community groups to provide hands-on advice, training, and technical help to design and deliver community-led programs around food and nutrition, poverty reduction, family supports, and cultural resilience. Hub teams, co-led by community and academic directors, work alongside local leaders to adapt practical guidance to each community's needs. The hub supports data collection and participatory research so communities can learn what works and share successful approaches. It also coordinates with a national ComPASS network to spread lessons and build local capacity.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Ideal participants are people living in communities facing poverty, food or nutrition insecurity, or other health inequities, and community members or organizations leading local structural interventions.
Not a fit: People seeking only individual clinical treatments for medical conditions unrelated to social or community factors may not receive direct benefit from this hub's work.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, the hub could help reduce social drivers of poor health like food insecurity and poverty, improving health and narrowing disparities in affected communities.
How similar studies have performed: Previous community-driven programs have shown local improvements in nutrition and family outcomes, but broad evidence for community-led structural interventions at scale is still emerging.
Where this research is happening
New Haven, United States
- Yale University — New Haven, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Nunez-Smith, Marcella — Yale University
- Study coordinator: Nunez-Smith, Marcella
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.