The National Institutes of Health gave $388,336 to the Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center to eliminate health disparities among taxi drivers. The grant
estimates that “there are over 230,000 taxi drivers in the U.S., and 42,000 in
New York City, where 84% are immigrant." “Taxi drivers are at great risk for poor health, with increased
cardiovascular disease (CVD) and overlapping cancer risk, due to stress, diet,
sedentary lifestyle, environmental exposures, and poor health care access,”
said the grant.
The goal of the proposal “is to create a robust community-based
participatory research (CBPR) infrastructure that taps into the many assets of
the taxi driver community, to work towards the elimination of health
disparities in this large at-risk group.” The specific aims include: .....To Read More.....
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