Joshua Thorpe, assistant professor in the Social & Administrative Sciences Division, has received a two-year award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program (LRP) for his research in two areas, disparities in access to asthma medications in racial/ethnic minorities, and rural/urban disparities in healthy behaviors among adults with elder care responsibilities.

Thorpe’s LRP award is funded through the NIH’s National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities. The purpose of the Health Disparities Research LRP is to recruit and retain highly qualified investigators to careers that focus on minority health or other health disparity issues.