UAH Nursing researcher to study cardiometabolic disease among Black women in the Deep South

A researcher at the University of Alabama in Huntsville has been awarded a $179,000 subcontract to explore community-based strategies for reducing high-burden chronic disease like obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer as part of an overall award totaling $4.2 million. The funding is being provided by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD). Dr. Jennifer Bail, an assistant professor in the College of Nursing at UAH, will be the subcontract principle investigator in support of an overall grant study titled, Community-Based Strategies to Reduce Cardiometabol