CRGE has received close to three million dollars in university support and research grants. In 2010, CRGE received the Research and Scholarship Award from the National Council on Research on Women (NCRW). The award was presented to CRGE for its outstanding research that advances knowledge and understanding of women and girls in society and reflects the visions of the NCRW. In 2017, CRGE received the University of Maryland President’s Commission on Ethnic Minority Issues award for a non-instructional unit.

CRGE has generously received support from the following campus units, private foundations and government entities to conduct research:

• College of Arts and Humanities
• University of Maryland, Division of Research
• The Office of the Provost
• The Office of the Graduate School
• Maryland Population Research Center
• Office of Diversity and Inclusion
• College of Behavioral and Social Sciences
• College of Education
• ADVANCE Program

• Ford Foundation
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Equal Measure
• Annie E. Casey Foundation
• New Economics for Women

In June 2023, Dr. Ruth Enid Zambrana was awarded a 2-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to conduct a study on senior leadership and aspirational faculty leaders in five different types of higher education institutions. The project, titled Building the Next Generation of Institutional Culture of Health Equity Natural “Inside” Leader, employs mixed methods research to examine the leadership experiences and effective strategies of former and current URM leaders in medicine, public health, nursing, and STEM and the perceptions and experiences of aspirational leaders to co-produce a leadership institutional health equity and fairness curriculum template. The outcomes aim to increase the leadership representation of underrepresented minority faculty in health-related fields.

In collaboration with the National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) in Washington, DC, CRGE was awarded a $129,000 grant to design and develop a national study investigating provider prescription practices for HIV prevention behaviors among Latino men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TGW). The objectives of the study are to empirically assess Latino providers’ social, demographic, and practice characteristics, knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about the PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) prescription and HIV prevention practices, including the PrEP prescription.

Latinos are the second-fastest-growing racial/ethnic group in the United States, accounting for 18.6% of the nation’s population in 2021. According to the CDC, only 14% of Latinos who could benefit from PrEP were prescribed PrEP in 2019, compared to 23% of the overall population. A critical knowledge gap exists in understanding the continued increase in HIV /AIDS rates among Latinos and the PrEP prescription practices used by all providers to prevent HIV among Latino MSM and TGW.

Findings were presented at the following conferences:

• 2022 NHMA 25th Annual Conference: Addressing Social Determinants and Well Being in
  Arlington, Virginia, March 26, 2022.
• BNGAP LGBT Health Workforce Conference: Envisioning the Future LGBTQ+ Health
  Workforce in New York, April 23, 2022.
• 2022 APHA Annual Conference: 150 Years of Creating the Healthiest Nation: Leading the
  Path Toward Equity, in Boston, Massachusetts, November 7, 2022.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Monitoring selected national HIV prevention and care objectives by using HIV surveillance data— the United States and 6 dependent areas, 2019.HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report2021;26(No.2). http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/library/reports/hiv-surveillance.html. Published May 2021. Accessed October 22, 2021.