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Health Equity and Literacy (HEAL) Project: University of California, Irvine
<br />Budget Justification
<br />Personnel:
<br />Sora Park Tanjasiri (multiple PI, 10% effort): Dr. Tanjasiri will be responsible for shared oversight of the
<br />entire project, including population track evaluation design, instrument and interview development, data
<br />collection, data management and analyses, community and scientific dissemination, liaising with the funder and
<br />report writing. She will oversee the work of the evaluation coordinator.
<br />John Billimek (multiple PI, 10% effort): Dr. Billimek will be responsible for shared oversight of the entire
<br />project, including clinical track evaluation design, instrument development, data collection, data management and
<br />analyses, presentations to inform further quality improvements, community and scientific dissemination, and
<br />funder and report writing. He will also oversee the work of the evaluation coordinator and quantitative evaluation
<br />assistant.
<br />Evaluation Coordinator (GSR V, 50% effort academic year + 100% summer months): will be responsible
<br />for oversight of all day-to-day activities, including facilitating meetings of the multiple PIs, technical advisory
<br />group (TAG), and with community partners; creation and/or maintenance of data collection protocols, REDCap
<br />databases, and codebooks; oversight of two evaluation assistants; creation of community presentations and report -
<br />backs; maintenance of all project files.
<br />Evaluation Assistants (GSR 1, 50% effort academic year + 70% summer months in year 1; 33% summer
<br />months in year 2): two bilingual evaluation assistants will support evaluation needs of the two tracks:
<br />population/community, and clinic/quality improvement. They will support development of data collection
<br />instruments, REDCap programming and testing, oversee language translations, document and report on data
<br />processes, and conduct preliminary descriptive data analyses.
<br />Statistical Expert (TBN, 5% effort): will provide input into the population and clinic data processes, including
<br />design, participant recruitment, and analyses.
<br />Data Manager (TBN, 10% effort): will provide support to the statistician, including IRB applications for
<br />approval, and REDCap programming and maintenance.
<br />Technical Assistance Group (1% effort, unless otherwise noted): Drs. Abigail Reyes (advisor with effort as
<br />needed), Jun Wu, Brittany Morey, Daniel Parker, Candice Taylor -Lucas, and Cynthia Haq will provide guidance
<br />on technical aspects of the planned evaluation, including in the areas of environmental measurements and
<br />analyses, racism and ethnic enclaves, epidemiology and GIS mapping, pediatric and adult clinical analyses.
<br />Furthermore, Drs. Alana LeBron (28% of summer effort) and Salvadore Zarate (33.3% of summer effort) will
<br />provide greater assistance with the qualitative aspects of the evaluation plan, including tracking collaborative
<br />capacity building and impacts on health disparities.
<br />Salary and Fringe: Salaries for all personnel are based upon current University of California academic and staff
<br />salary scales. All personnel budget calculations include salary range adjustments (3%) as applicable for each year
<br />of support in accordance with published University guidelines. Fringe benefit rates for personnel were derived
<br />using composite benefit rates agreed upon by the University of California Office of the President and the DHHS
<br />Audit Agency, the Cognizant Audit Agency for the University of California. http://research.uci.edu/sponsored-
<br />proj ects/rates-fees/fringe-benefits.html. Vacation leave accruals are excluded from the composite benefit rate and
<br />are assessed at 7%.
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