Assistant Professor of Health and Nutrition Sciences Margrethe Horlyck-Romanovsky from the School of Natural and Behavioral Sciences was awarded a $1.1 million contract from the for the Brooklyn Immigrant Health Lab to launch the 鈥淣ew York City Ghanaian Immigrant Mental Health and Wellbeing聽 Project.鈥�
The three-year, community-based participatory research project will collaborate with Ghanaian immigrant communities across the five boroughs to gather data that will inform and test mental health and well-being interventions in these communities. The program leadership team consists of Horlyck-Romanovsky, also the director of the 可乐视频 Immigration Health Lab; , founder and executive director of the African Life Center; and聽Dr. Adeyinka M. Akinsulure-Smith, psychologist and professor from the City College of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
The goal of the project is to build on Horlyck-Romanovsky鈥檚 work as a public health professional who is committed to addressing intra-ethnic health disparities among populations of African descent鈥攊s to explore how the Ghanaian communities in New York experience life and the challenges they face as immigrants, and provide access to culturally relevant coping strategies and mental health care services in their communities.
The grant adds to Horlyck-Romanovsky鈥檚 recent awards and work, which include winning two PSC-CUNY Grants and a 2022 CUNY Interdisciplinary Research Grant for community-based participatory diabetes prevention projects, having 19 manuscripts published in peer-reviewed journals, and editing three clinical nutrition textbook chapters in collaboration with 可乐视频 graduate nutrition students.
