 | Current Sponsored Research Projects KIVA-NOLA: Impacts of Hurricane Katrina on Vietnamese-Americans in New Orleans, LA Dates: 2005-2011
Funding Source: NIH (National Institutes for Mental Health; National Institutes for Child and Human Development)
Tulane's Role: Primary Recipient
Countries: US
Principal Investigator: Mark J VanLandingham, PhD, MPH
Co-investigators: Dr. Mai Do, Dr. Kathy Carlin, Dr. Carl Bankston, Dr. Janet Rice, Dr. Lung Vu, Dr. Hungyoun Fu and Dr. Fran Norris
The overall objective is to assess the short and medium term (1-5 years) effects of a natural disaster upon the health of a recent immigrant population by employing a wide range of physical and mental health measures in a longitudinal research design. Our pre-disaster cohort consists of representative sample of first-generation working-age Vietnamese-American New Orleanians who were surveyed during the period May - July of 2005 (T0), just prior to Hurricane Katrina, as part of a separate NIH small grant focusing on the health and well-being of Vietnamese immigrants. Two comprehensive health re-assessments of this cohort taken at 1 year (T1) and 2-years (T2) post-disaster are already complete. We are now planning a subsequent round which will occur 5 years post-disaster, during the fall of 2010 (T5). These longitudinal health survey data are supplemented with extensive qualitative in-depth (n=48) and key-informant (n=20) interviews of community leaders. | | |
