Impact of the HEIP Program
Since its inception, the Health Equity Innovation Pilot (HEIP) program has funded 39 projects, with 6 additional projects underway for Year 6 (2024-25).
Over $1 million has been committed between DOM and divisional funds over the duration of the HEIP program. All divisions as well as 2 units within the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care have supported at least one project.
The HEIP program has had an important and durable impact on the careers of the faculty and trainees who have received funding through this mechanism. HEIP has also catalyzed the growth of health equity research at BWH, and resulted in numerous publications; national, regional, and local presentations; and clinical innovations and reductions in health inequities at BWH and beyond.
Past HEIP Projects
| Project Leader(s) | Division(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Nasrien Ibrahim, MD, MPH and Tracy Makuvire, MD | Cardiovascular Medicine | Assessing Barriers to Left Ventricular Assist Devices and Heart Transplantation Access |
| Sogol Javaheri, MD, MPH | Sleep and Circadian Disorders | Sleep matters: Equity in distribution of PAP therapy and patient outcomes |
| Nadine Palermo, DO | Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension | Breaking Down Barriers in the Initiation of Continuous Glucose Monitoring: Implementation of a Diabetes Technology Transitions of Care Pathway |
| Sandeep Prabhu, MD | Primary Care | Primary Care Innovation to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension Control among Black and Hispanic Patients at BWH |
| Benjamin Rome, MD, MPH | Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics | Advancing Pharmacoequity Research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Beyond |
| Project Leader(s) | Division(s)/Unit(s) | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Maureen Achebe, MBBS Lauren Merz, MD, MSc | Hematology | Impact of Duffy Status on Chemotherapy Administration Among Black Women with Breast Cancer |
| Ritika Dutta, MD Sowda Ahmed, MD Jeffrey Schnipper, MD, MPH Amrapali Maitra, MD | Hospital Medicine / Internal Medicine | Decreasing Racial Inequities in the Utilization of Security Emergency Responses in the Hospital |
| Amirreza Haghighi, MD, PhD | Genetics | Evaluating the Visual Representation of Race and Sex in Medical Education and Patient Engagement Materials |
| Navin Kumar, MD Jean Padilla, MD, MPH | Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endoscopy | Improving the Quality of Colon Cancer Screening for our Spanish-Speaking Patient Population |
| Colleen Monaghan, MD Lillian Zerihun, MD | Primary Care / Internal Medicine | Addressing Disparities in Hypertension Control in the Primary Care Setting |
| Lisa Rotenstein, MD Marie McDonnell, MD | Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension / Primary Care | The Diabetes Collaborative Care Program to Enhance Outcomes for Hispanic/Latino/Latinx Patients in BWH Primary Care |
| Bram Wispelwey, MD, MPH Regan Marsh, MD, MPH Michael Wilson, MD, MPH Rose Olson, MD | Hospital Medicine / Department of Emergency Medicine | Enhancing Racial Equity for Medicine Admissions Boarding in the BWH Emergency Department |
| Project Leader(s) | Division(s)/Unit(s) | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| MaryCatherine Arbour, MD, MPH | Global Health Equity / Primary Care | Evaluation of the Expansion of a Primary Care Based Housing Intervention on Health Outcomes |
| Walter Chan, MD, MPH | Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endoscopy | Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Management of Functional Dyspepsia |
| Christopher Estiverne, MD | Renal Medicine | Achieving Kidney Transplant Equity in Black Populations |
| Candace Feldman, MD, ScD | Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity | Promoting Equity in Rheumatic Disease Care and Research through Peer Leadership: The PRAISE Program |
| Elizabeth Gay, MD | Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine | Ensuring Equity in a Post-Acute COVID-19 Recovery Center at BWH |
| Richard Joseph, MD, MBA | Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension | The Healthy Lifestyle Program |
| Bevin Kenney, MD | Primary Care (Brookside Community Health Center) | Community Health Coaches for Pre-Diabetes |
| Lydia Pace, MD, MPH | Women’s Health | Addressing Inequities in Individualized Approaches to Breast Cancer Risk Reduction |
| Sari Reisner, ScD | Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension | Meeting the Healthcare Needs of Transgender and Gender Diverse Patients at BWH |
| Cynthia So-Armah, MD | Primary Care (Brookside Community Health Center) | Re-engaging Patients in Cancer Screening during COVID-19: A Student-Driven Telephone Outreach Approach |
| Project Leader(s) | Division(s)/Unit(s) | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Maureen M. Achebe, MBBS | Hematology | Absolute Neutrophil Counts by Duffy Status in health African American Adults |
| Esteban F. Gershanik, MD, MPH, MSc | Hospital Medicine | Evaluating Potential Disparities in Care between Limited-English Proficient and English Proficient patients on the Inpatient Medicine Service and Impact of Various Interpreting Services |
| Tahir Haque, MD Rob Boxer, MD, PhD Marina Kishlyansky, DO | Hospital Medicine | Patient Populations and Decrease Provider Burnout |
| Bisola Ojikutu, MD, MPH | Global Health Equity | Overcoming Structural Challenges to PrEP Access at Brigham and Women’s Hospital |
| Roseanna Means, MD | Women’s Health | Impact of Concierge Care on Maternal Health and Birth Outcomes for Pregnant Housing-Insecure Women |
| Agustina Saenz, MD | Hospital Medicine | A Brigham Inpatient Opioid Stewardship Initiative (BIOSI) to help mitigate racial/ethnicity biases in pain management |
| Valerie Stone, MD, MPH | Primary Care (with DOM support) | Are there racial/ethnic disparities in the cancer care continuum at BWH/DFCI? |
| Dylan Tierney, MD | Global Health Equity | Evaluating the Impact of Terminations on Health Equity of Patients at Brigham Health |
| Bram Wispelwey, MD, MPH | Global Health Equity (support from Cardiovascular Medicine) | Reducing Structural Inequities in Heart Failure Management: Implementation and Prospective Evaluation of Novel Admission Service Decision Tool |
| Project Leader(s) | Division(s)/Unit(s) | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Rob Boxer, MD, PhD | General Internal Medicine and Primary Care | Reducing Structural Inequities in Heart Failure Management: An approach to improve the quality of heart failure care on the General Medicine Service |
| Candace Feldman, MD, MPH, ScD | Rheumatology, Inflammation, and Immunity | Addressing Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Disparities in Lupus Care Through an Integrated Care Management Program Pilot |
| Laura N. Frain, MD, MPH | Aging | Targeted Geriatric ‘No-Show’ Home Visits for High Risk, Vulnerable Older Adult Patients In the Phyllis Jen Center for Primary Care |
| Monik C. Jimenez, ScD | Women’s Health | Developing best practices to collect information on past history of incarceration |
| Mallika Mendu, MD | Renal Medicine | The Impact of Race Multiplier in the Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Equation on Care Delivery in African American Chronic Kidney Disease Patients: A Registry-Based Analysis |
| Annie Lewis-O’Connor, NP-BC, MPH, PhD | Women’s Health | Advancing Trauma-Informed Education into Clinical Practice for Adults: A Curriculum for the Hospital Staff |
| Evan Shannon, MD, MPH | General Internal Medicine | Racial disparities in interhospital transfer |
| Bram Wispelwey, MD, MPH | Global Health Equity | Reducing Structural Inequities in Heart Failure Management: Understanding and Addressing the Drivers of Admission Service Decisions |