Shrewsbury, MA

DeafYES! Center for Deaf Empowerment and Recovery

Disseminating "Vital Signs": Deaf Community-Engaged Research to Improve Healthcare Access

$45K Finalists

Deaf people have experienced long histories of mistreatment in the U.S. healthcare system and clinical research world. Understandably, many harbor feelings of mistrust toward the medical community. Our Deaf-engaged research team produced a film to improve healthcare providers service to Deaf patients. Our proposed solution is to disseminate the film via community events, for which we will partner Deaf community agencies with local academic medical centers to build new collaborations and begin to rectify mistrust.

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Solution Location

Boston, MA

Providence, RI

Lewiston/Augusta, ME

Let’s build community trust and improve people’s health and well-being.

The NIH Build UP Trust Challenge will award as many as ten Finalists up to $45,000 each and the opportunity to win one of four $200,000 prizes for promising strategies that increase research participation and the adoption of medical care by building trust and improving engagement with historically underserved communities.