Funded by the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Pilot Program for Type 2 Translational Research

Department of Family Medicine researchers Richard Brown, MD, MPH, and Tara LaRowe, BS, PhD, were both awarded Community-Academic Partnership Grants by the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Pilot Program for Type 2 Translational Research.

A description of each project is outlined below:

• Dr. Richard Brown: "Adding Depression to a Primary Care Screening System" - This project will determine whether a primary care based screening, intervention and referral system can include depression in an existing system that addresses unhealthy behaviors in primary care patients. This system allows primary care clinics to be able to have a single low-cost staff person to deliver comprehensive behavioral and mental health intervention and referral services.

• Dr. Tara LaRowe: "Community and family influences on healthy eating in rural American Indian communities" - This research project will provide preliminary data to identify appropriate community targets which will lead to culturally appropriate interventions, in collaboration with American Indian communities, to improve access and consumption of healthy foods. This research will determine whether diet quality is associated with community/environmental factors and whether diet quality is associated with socio-cultural factors.