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DREW UNIVERSITY OF MED & SCI", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 907, "ror": "", "name": "CHARLES R. DREW UNIVERSITY OF MED & SCI", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This project will use national and local incidence, mortality and testing data, with GIS driven agent-based disease modelling to identify the “neighborhood effects” that drive the uneven patterns of transmission and serious outcomes from COVID-19. Neighborhood environments have been associated with chronic disease mortality, disability, cumulative stress, cognitive decline, loss of physical functioning. These same neighborhood effects are implicit in exacerbating disparities in the spread and health outcomes of COVID-19, however the exact mechanisms and the magnitude of the impact of entrenched social disparities specifically on COVID-19 outcomes are not yet known. The key hypothesis is that agent based disease spread modeling of the existing retrospective COVID-19 data sources at the national and local levels with geospatial data input and spatial-temporal analysis will provide powerful knowledge on the structural factors that influenced the pandemic’s spread in local areas and will facilitate the development of valuable recommendations on how to mitigate current and future disparities in impacts of COVID-19 and other future infectious epidemics and pandemics. We will test our key hypothesis and accomplish our objectives via the following Specific Aims. Determine what Counties factors related to the social determinants of health have influenced the spread of coronavirus in the United States. 1) Determine, within the identified Counties, which social determinants have had significant impact on either spread or inhibit spread of CV-19. 2) Determine which populations groups have been impacted more severely in these local contexts and why? 3) Determine what specific recommendations can be made from these findings? The expected outcomes of this research are published manuscripts and scholarly presentations that provide science- based recommendations on the how health authorities and policy makers can proactively address social factors that amplify disease and poor health outcomes in certain communities.", "keywords": [ "Address", "Area", "COVID-19", "Chronic Disease", "Communities", "Coronavirus", "County", "Data", "Data Sources", "Development", "Disease", "Disease model", "Environment", "Epidemic", "Epidemiologic Methods", "Future", "Health", "Impaired cognition", "Incidence", "Knowledge", "Manuscripts", "Minority", "Modeling", "Neighborhoods", "Outcome", "Outcomes Research", "Pattern", "Physical Function", "Policy Maker", "Population Group", "Publishing", "Recommendation", "Science", "Stress", "Structure", "Testing", "Translational Research", "United States", "authority", "base", "disability", "metropolitan", "mortality", "pandemic disease", "social determinants", "social disparities", "social factors", "social health determinants", "transmission process" ], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "6169", "attributes": { "award_id": "3U54MD007595-13S3", "title": "COVID-19 Vaccine Education at the Point of Testing to Increase Vaccine Uptake in Vulnerable Communities in Southeastern Louisiana", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 20941, "first_name": "Rina", "last_name": "Das", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2009-09-24", "end_date": "2023-12-31", "award_amount": 369149, "principal_investigator": { "id": 20942, "first_name": "Gene", "last_name": "D'Amour", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 20943, "first_name": "Guangdi", "last_name": "Wang", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 487, "ror": "https://ror.org/0085d9t86", "name": "Xavier University of Louisiana", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "LA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The investigators at Xavier University of Louisiana propose a rapid vaccine education model to be delivered at the point of COVID-19 testing to be delivered at pharmacies, clinics and urgent cares. Documented trends of vaccine hesitancy and decreased vaccine access has disproportionately impacted rural communities, particularly African Americans who reside in those communities. The target population is African-Americans, Hispanics, Vietnamese Americans and those living in rural communities. The Specific Aims of this proposal are: Specific Aim #1: To implement a rapid vaccine education model at the point of COVID-19 testing in clinics, pharmacies and urgent care clinics. Investigators anticipate a 15% increase in COVID-19 vaccine completion rates among those who participate in the vaccine education. Specific Aim #2: To assess barriers to COVID-19 vaccination, including: vaccine hesitancy, vaccine access and other social determinants of health among the target population using the point of COVID-19 testing at pharmacies, urgent care clinics and clinics. Specific Aim #3: To assess health system’s related barriers to offering vaccine education among healthcare support staff such as pharmacy technicians, nurse’s aides, medical assistants and pharmacy interns. Method: Individuals will be recruited using a community-based participatory research model with existing partners to identify 375 patients to receive COVID-19 vaccine education at the point of COVID-19 testing by trained healthcare workers. The target enrollment is: 65% African- Americans, 10% Hispanic, 10% Vietnamese, and 20% residents of rural communities. Participants will complete a rapid COVID-19 vaccine education delivered by support healthcare professionals at the testing locations. Monitoring for vaccine completion will occur by Links© (Louisiana Immunization Network) access. For Aim #3, healthcare participants will complete a pre and post survey to assess health system’s barriers to vaccine education at the point of care among healthcare support staff. Impact: This researcher aims to understand health related beliefs and behaviors related to vaccination at one point of healthcare access, COVID-19 testing. This interventional approach will help to develop strategies to improve COVID-19 vaccination in vulnerable communities. This grant will facilitate training early stage investigators and diversify the health research workforce as the researchers are underrepresented minorities and women.", "keywords": [ "16 year old", "Address", "African American", "American", "Behavior", "COVID testing", "COVID-19", "COVID-19 monitoring", "COVID-19 patient", "COVID-19 testing", "COVID-19 vaccination", "COVID-19 vaccine", "Clinic", "Communities", "Continuing Education", "Data", "Development", "Education", "Educational Intervention", "Eligibility Determination", "Enrollment", "Focus Groups", "Grant", "Health", "Health Personnel", "Health Professional", "Health care facility", "Health system", "Healthcare", "Hispanics", "Home", "Immunization", "Individual", "Insurance Coverage", "Internships", "Intervention", "Link", "Location", "Louisiana", "Medical", "Methods", "Minority Groups", "Modeling", "Monitor", "Nurses&apos", "Aides", "Participant", "Patients", "Persons", "Pharmacy Students", "Pharmacy facility", "Provider", "Registries", "Research", "Research Personnel", "Rural Community", "Rural Health", "SARS-CoV-2 infection", "Socioeconomic Status", "Surveys", "System", "Target Populations", "Telephone", "Testing", "Time", "Training", "Training and Education", "Underrepresented Minority", "United States", "Universities", "Vaccination", "Vaccines", "Woman", "certificate program", "community based participatory research", "follow-up", "health belief", "health care availability", "improved", "member", "point of care", "recruit", "rural area", "rural dwellers", "social health determinants", "success", "trend", "urgent care", "vaccine acceptance", "vaccine access", "vaccine delivery", "vaccine hesitancy" ], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "6558", "attributes": { "award_id": "3U54MD007595-14S2", "title": "Xavier RCMI Renewal Application-Overall", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 21971, "first_name": "Rina", "last_name": "Das", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2009-09-24", "end_date": "2023-12-31", "award_amount": 373357, "principal_investigator": { "id": 21972, "first_name": "Gene", "last_name": "D'Amour", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 21973, "first_name": "Guangdi", "last_name": "Wang", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 487, "ror": "https://ror.org/0085d9t86", "name": "Xavier University of Louisiana", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "LA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "To sustain Xavier’s overall research momentum, enhance research capacity, and advance to the next level of excellence in biomedical research on minority health and health disparities, the RCMI Cancer Research Center will implement program activities to support early stage, underrepresented investigators, maintain core facilities to support Xavier researchers at all levels of career development, and to promote and sustain long-lasting, bidirectional partnerships between Xavier and local communities to address cancer health disparities. The proposed RCMI Center will consist of three major research projects in two areas: basic biomedical research and behavioral research, and 4 Cores: the Administrative Core, the Investigator Development Core, the Research Infrastructure Core, and the Community Engagement Core. These programs will be implemented to achieve the following specific aims: Aim 1. Enhance Xavier’s research capacity for basic biomedical and behavioral research. The RCMI program will maintain, strengthen and optimize core services in support of Xavier investigators. Core facilities will be restructured, consolidated, and operations will be streamlined to maximize productivity and efficiency of Xavier’s ongoing research projects. Aim 2. Enable Xavier investigators to become more competitive in obtaining external funding. This will be achieved by 1) supporting two research projects in the basic biomedical area and one research project in the behavioral research area to enable these project PIs to become competitive in R01 applications; 2) providing critical research resources such as shared state-of-the-art instrumentation required in a competitive research project through the Research Infrastructure Core; 3) providing, through the Investigator Development Core, pilot funding to obtain necessary preliminary data for development of fundable research proposals; and 4) providing grantsmanship training through grant writing workshops and professional review services. Aim 3. Promote career enhancement of Xavier’s new and early stage investigators through a pilot project fund and by initiating a research/grantsmanship “pipeline” supporting new faculty for five years to obtain extramural funding. Aim 4. Enhance the quality of all scientific inquiry and promote research on minority health and health disparities by semi-annual symposiums and workshops on the quality of minority health and health disparities research each year to offer training in good scientific practices, appropriate statistical usage, and responsible laboratory practices for researchers at all levels. Working through the Community Engagement Core and the Investigator Development Core, the RCMI program will foster close interactions and collaborations among basic and behavior researchers, clinicians, and community stakeholders. Aim 5. Establish sustainable relationships with community-based organizations that will partner with Xavier researchers. A Community Engagement Core will be established to 1) promote and sustain community-academic partnerships through bidirectional knowledge sharing on intervention strategies and scientific discovery in cancer health disparities; 2) facilitate greater community involvement in setting research priorities and creating more opportunities for academic-practitioner-community research partnerships; 3) build capacity (knowledge and skills) among research investigators, community members, health systems, and potential research participants to conduct innovative and transformative research that addresses community health needs; 4) provide support for investigators to better disseminate research findings to the scientific community, community organizations, and lay communities.", "keywords": [ "Address", "African American", "Area", "Basic Science", "Behavior", "Behavioral Research", "Bioinformatics", "Biological", "Biomedical Research", "Biometry", "Collaborations", "Communities", "Community Health", "Core Facility", "Critiques", "Data", "Development", "Drug Delivery Systems", "Educational workshop", "Evaluation", "Extramural Activities", "Faculty", "Fostering", "Funding", "Grant", "Health Disparities Research", "Health system", "Intervention", "Knowledge", "Laboratories", "Louisiana", "Low income", "Malignant Neoplasms", "Mentors", "Minority", "Minority Health Research", "Modeling", "NCI Center for Cancer Research", "Neighborhoods", "Oncology", "Participant", "Peer Review", "Pilot Projects", "Productivity", "Published Comment", "Research", "Research Infrastructure", "Research Personnel", "Research Priority", "Research Project Grants", "Research Proposals", "Resources", "Scientific Inquiry", "Services", "System", "Therapeutic Agents", "Training", "Translating", "United States National Institutes of Health", "Universities", "Work", "Writing", "anticancer research", "base", "cancer health disparity", "career", "career development", "community based participatory research", "community engagement", "community involvement", "community organizations", "design", "health disparity", "innovation", "instrumentation", "member", "minority health", "operation", "programs", "service delivery", "skills", "success", "symposium", "tool" ], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "6876", "attributes": { "award_id": "5R01AI079293-13", "title": "Innate Immune Activation in Malaria", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 22706, "first_name": "John T.", "last_name": "Pesce", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2009-09-24", "end_date": "2025-02-28", "award_amount": 835453, "principal_investigator": { "id": 22707, "first_name": "Katherine A.", "last_name": "Fitzgerald", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 790, "ror": "", "name": "UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 21880, "first_name": "Douglas T", "last_name": "Golenbock", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 790, "ror": "", "name": "UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 790, "ror": "", "name": "UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "ABSTRACT: Acute infection with malaria is often accompanied by the symptoms of a systemic cytokine storm. These symptoms result from a systemic inflammatory response via the activation of phagocytes. The overall goal of our ongoing project is to define the mechanisms of innate immune activation and regulation that account for the clinical symptoms and complications of malaria. This grant is a renewal of R01 AI079293. This RO1 has been highly productive having resulted in 40 publications including 16 peer-reviewed manuscripts of original work in the latest funding period (9 of these directly related to the grant, an additional 5 papers were supported by grant-related infrastructure in Brazil). Over the last decade, we have defined what we believe to be the principal “malaria toxins” and their cognate receptors: parasite AT-rich DNA, immune complexes, hemozoin, free heme, and GPI anchors. We found that these ligands drive Toll-like receptors (TLRs 2, 3, 4, 9), NOD-like receptors (NLRP3, NLRP12), absent in melanoma 2 (AIM2), and the cGAS-STING pathway. Our work led to recognition that a cytosolic DNA binding protein Cnbp, regulates IL12b and IFNg and, under certain conditions, type I interferons. We have described the phenomena of innate immune memory in malaria, which is one part of an epigenetic process that may both protect the human host or, under certain conditions, might result in severe malaria (especially if accompanied by bacterial infection). More recently, we have identified several lncRNAs in malaria-stimulated phagocytes, many of which might regulate clinical disease. Thus, we have accomplished most of what we set out to do 5 years ago. In this renewal, we plan to focus on identifying the most basic methods by which the innate immune system is regulated in malaria by combining cell culture studies, in vitro mouse work with the analysis of patient samples. There are three Aims. The major hypothesis of the grant is that the innate immune response is highly regulated via epigenetic modifications of chromatin as well as at the transcriptional level. This regulation involves the interaction of lymphoid cells with phagocytes, resulting in innate immune training and a variety of epigenetic changes. The epigenetic changes involve the modification of chromatin, alterations of chromatin accessibility (Aim 1). In addition, inflammatory signals during malaria result in the generation of long non-coding RNAs including LUCAT-1 and LIMIT, whose roles we will explore in detail in vitro, in a LUCAT-1 KO mouse and in human clinical samples (Aim 2). Finally, we will define the role of a transcriptional regulator known as Cnbp, a nucleic acid binding protein that we initially thought to be a DNA sensor. Cnbp has proven to be involved in regulating IL12beta transcription and expression via its interaction with c-Rel and the IL12 promoter (Aim 3). In all of the Aims described briefly above, we will analyze leukocytes from febrile patients with malaria (both P. vivax and P falciparum) from our site in Porto Velho, Brazil. This grant is an ambitious project built upon the successful completion of two previously ambitious grants. Over the next funding cycle, we hope to contribute significantly more to our knowledge of innate immunity in malaria.", "keywords": [ "3-Dimensional", "AIM2 gene", "ATAC-seq", "Acute", "Affect", "Anemia", "Animal Model", "Antigen-Antibody Complex", "Bacterial Infections", "Brazil", "Cell Culture Techniques", "Cell Nucleus", "Cells", "Cerebrum", "Cessation of life", "Chromatin", "Clinical", "Culicidae", "Cytokine Gene", "DNA", "DNA-Binding Proteins", "Data", "Disease", "Epigenetic Process", "Exposure to", "Falciparum Malaria", "Fever", "Funding", "Gene Expression", "Generations", "Genes", "Genetic", "Genetic Transcription", "Goals", "Grant", "Heme", "Human", "Immune", "Immune Response Genes", "Immune response", "Immune system", "Immunologic Memory", "In Vitro", "Inflammasome", "Inflammatory", "Infrastructure", "Innate Immune Response", "Innate Immune System", "Interferon Type I", "Interferons", "Interleukin-12", "Knockout Mice", "Knowledge", "Lead", "Leukocytes", "Life", "Ligands", "Ligation", "Lymphocyte Subset", "Lymphoid Cell", "Malaria", "Manuscripts", "Mediating", "Methods", "Modeling", "Modification", "Molecular", "Monitor", "Mus", "Natural Immunity", "Nucleic Acids", "Organ", "Paper", "Parasites", "Pathway interactions", "Patients", "Peer Review", "Phagocytes", "Phagolysosome", "Plasmodium", "Plasmodium falciparum", "Plasmodium vivax", "Process", "Production", "Publications", "Regulation", "Reporting", "Role", "Sampling", "Signal Transduction", "Site", "Stimulator of Interferon Genes", "Symptoms", "T-Lymphocyte Subsets", "Toll-like receptors", "Toxin", "Training", "Untranslated RNA", "Vivax Malaria", "Work", "World Health Organization", "acute infection", "base", "chromatin modification", "cytokine", "cytokine release syndrome", "defined contribution", "ds-DNA", "epigenetic regulation", "flu", "gain of function", "hemozoin", "immune activation", "immunoregulation", "in vivo", "in vivo Model", "innate immune mechanisms", "malaria infection", "monocyte", "novel", "nucleic acid binding protein", "prevent", "promoter", "receptor", "response", "sensor", "systemic inflammatory response" ], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "7576", "attributes": { "award_id": "3U54MD007595-12S5", "title": "Enhancing Louisiana Health Professionals in Communication Methods/Strategies to Increase COVID 19 Vaccination Rates of Residents of Vulnerable Communities (LaHealthCom)", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 6822, "first_name": "Rina", "last_name": "Das", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2009-09-24", "end_date": "2023-12-31", "award_amount": 200000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 7717, "first_name": "Gene", "last_name": "D'Amour", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 487, "ror": "https://ror.org/0085d9t86", "name": "Xavier University of Louisiana", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "LA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [ { "id": 7718, "first_name": "Guangdi", "last_name": "Wang", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "awardee_organization": { "id": 487, "ror": "https://ror.org/0085d9t86", "name": "Xavier University of Louisiana", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "LA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Educating Louisiana Health Professionals in communication methods/strategies to increase COVID 19 vaccination rates of residents of vulnerable communities (LaHealthCom) Introduction LA ranks first in the US for COVID-19 cases by population with a case rate of 2,960 per 100,000 and is fifth in deaths by population with a death rate of 97 per 100,000. Furthermore, there are especially disturbing demographic trends in LA with Blacks representing the highest percentage of cases (40.2%) and second highest percentage of deaths (48.7%). Vaccines for prevention of COVID-19 are in development with 29 candidate vaccines in clinical evaluation, of which 6 are in Phase 3. To reduce COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality, an approved vaccine must be disseminated with rapid uptake in the community. Mistrust of the health care system and mistrust of experimentation create barriers to rapid and wide- spread acceptance of novel COVID-19 preventive and therapeutic interventions among vulnerable groups. Surprisingly, many minority health care workers who are not now living in vulnerable communities are also reluctant to get vaccinations and/or to give vaccinations. Our College of Pharmacy have experienced this regularly among the health care staff with whom they work in vulnerable community clinics, community pharmacies and churches. This reluctance also occurs among a noteworthy percentage of Xavier’s pharmacy students. Louisiana’s Base COVID 19 vaccination grant, “Louisiana Community-Engagement Research Alliance against COVID-19 in Disproportionately Affected Communities” (La-CEAL - attached) will achieve understanding of the perceptions of the residents of vulnerable communities about COVID-19 vaccination in order to develop effective media and communication strategies focused on the residents of these communities that will increase their knowledge of, and address barriers to, participation in the vaccination process as well as clinical trials. To fully implement this strategy will take between 6 and 9 months. However, a variety of health professionals are already meeting with these residents and, to the extent they can be encouraged to become vaccinated and learn how to effectively encourage residents of vulnerable communities to become vaccinated, will have an even more immediate impact that will be sustainable over time. As such, this proposal will first, identify barriers to COVID 19 vaccination faced by health care providers and successful educational strategies that could be used to help them overcome these barriers and communicate to vulnerable communities in a manner that encourages residents to be vaccinated. Second, with a focus on health care staff working in churches, Federally Qualified Health Clinics and Community Pharmacies in vulnerable areas as well as Xavier’s College of Pharmacy and Physician Assistant program faculty and students who staff these organizations, this data will be used to create innovative educational strategies to address the attitudes of health care professionals towards COVID 19 vaccination as well as help them develop communication and messaging capabilities to be used on the residents of vulnerable communities they serve. Resultant educational approaches will be implemented and tested in these same churches, Federally Qualified Health Clinics and Community Pharmacies in vulnerable areas as well as Xavier’s College of Pharmacy and Physician Assistant program, evaluated and revised. Finally, best practices will be implemented at Xavier and disseminated to the vulnerable community organizations in which they serve as well as to other health provider educational institutions such as Colleges of medicine, nursing and pharmacy and their professional continuing education associations.", "keywords": [ "Address", "Affect", "Area", "Attitude", "Attitude to Health", "Awareness", "COVID-19", "Cessation of life", "Church", "Clinic", "Clinical Trials", "Communication", "Communication Methods", "Communities", "Community Pharmacy", "Continuing Education", "Data", "Death Rate", "Delphi Study", "Development", "Discipline of Nursing", "E-learning", "Educational Intervention", "Educational Materials", "Faculty", "Federally Qualified Health Center", "Goals", "Grant", "Health", "Health Personnel", "Health Professional", "Healthcare", "Healthcare Systems", "Institution", "Knowledge", "Lead", "Learning", "Louisiana", "Medicine", "Morbidity - disease rate", "Nurses", "Perception", "Pharmacy Students", "Pharmacy facility", "Phase", "Physician Assistants", "Population", "Prevention", "Preventive Intervention", "Process", "Professional Education", "Professional Organizations", "Research", "Students", "Techniques", "Testing", "Therapeutic Intervention", "Time", "Vaccinated", "Vaccination", "Vaccines", "Vulnerable Populations", "Work", "base", "college", "community clinic", "community organizations", "experience", "health care service", "innovation", "meetings", "minority health", "mortality", "novel", "programs", "research clinical testing", "trend", "uptake", "vaccine candidate", "webinar" ], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5238", "attributes": { "award_id": "0923745", "title": "Homophily and Peer Influence in Developmental Processes that Support Learning", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "DS -Developmental Sciences" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 18511, "first_name": "Peter", "last_name": "Vishton", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2009-09-15", "end_date": "2012-08-31", "award_amount": 249374, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18513, "first_name": "Brett", "last_name": "Laursen", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 675, "ror": "https://ror.org/05p8w6387", "name": "Florida Atlantic University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "FL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 675, "ror": "https://ror.org/05p8w6387", "name": "Florida Atlantic University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "FL", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Affiliates tend to be similar on key attributes. This phenomenon, known as homophily, is of particular interest during adolescence because of concerns that friends and romantic partners promote maladaptive behaviors and interfere with academic achievement at a time when youth are especially susceptible to peer influence. Such claims have been sharply criticized, however, for overstating peer socialization effects and ignoring the fact that youth tend to select peers who resemble themselves as friends and romantic partners. Progress reconciling these dissonant views has been slowed by the significant methodological challenges posed by the nonindependent data characteristic of participants in close relationships (i.e., mutual influence between partners that makes them more similar to one another than to random others but that also biases statistical analyses). As a result, scientific understanding of similarity between close peers is incomplete and there is almost no empirical evidence describing which individuals are most apt to change to increase their similarity with friends and romantic partners. The project utilizes archival data from two longitudinal projects: (a) the 10 to 18 Project, a 5-year community study of all students enrolled in the 4th through the 12th grade in a small city in central Sweden; and (b) Project STAR, a 5-year study of friend and romantic relationships in Denver youth ages 14 to 19. These studies contain complementary information about homophily that encompasses a variety of educational outcomes and factors known to constrain educational achievement. The project has two objectives: (a) specify selection and socialization effects in domains that reflect learning and in contexts that constrain learning, and (b) identify characteristics of youth who are susceptible to influence from friends and romantic partners. To meet these objectives, new analytic techniques that measure homophily will be devised and refined. Analytic strategies designed for nonindependent data will estimate selection and socialization over time, disentangling partner influence from individual stability. \n\nThe project will have a profound impact on the scientific study of peer relationships and, more generally, on assumptions about the influence of peers over academic achievement and adjustment. In terms of impact on the scientific community, the dyadic data analytic techniques devised to assess homophily will set a new methodological standard for research on the topic, rendering obsolete past empirical practices and revising the conventional wisdom about peer influence over development. In terms of impact on adolescent learning and contexts that constrain it, the project will lay the groundwork for advances in education and public health. Current efforts to promote academic achievement and curb deviant peer influences assume a model in which relationship participants are mutually influential. School curricula, instructional activities, and peer interventions will be more effective if influence agents are distinguished from influence recipients, with programs specifically crafted for each.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5240", "attributes": { "award_id": "0933983", "title": "ICM 2010: Administration of Travel Grants for U.S. Participants", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2009-09-15", "end_date": "2011-08-31", "award_amount": 323150, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18514, "first_name": "Ellen", "last_name": "Maycock", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 871, "ror": "https://ror.org/05vy1kj95", "name": "American Mathematical Society", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "RI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 871, "ror": "https://ror.org/05vy1kj95", "name": "American Mathematical Society", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "RI", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "The American Mathematical Society (The Society) proposes to administer a program for selecting approximately 115 U.S. mathematicians for whom travel awards of about $2,750 each will be provided to attend the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad, India, August 19-27, 2010 (ICM 2010). The Society requests a grant from the National Science Foundation in the amount of $323,150 ($316,250 for travel awards and $6,900 for administration of the program).\n\nThe International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is held once every four years, and is one of the most significant gatherings of the world?s leading mathematicians, where major developments in mathematical research, across sub-disciplines, is discussed. Attendance by U.S. mathematicians at this meeting is important for the scientific health of the nation because U.S. mathematicians discuss, learn and share in mathematical research that is going on all over the world. The Society has administered similar travel grant programs for previous ICM gatherings, beginning with ICM-90 in Kyoto, Japan and most recently for ICM-06 in Madrid, Spain. The program ensures that there is strong attendance by U.S. mathematicians, promoting contact with mathematical scientists from other parts of the world, which is important not only for the education of future mathematicians, but also for the long-term vitality of mathematical research in the United States. In addition, efforts will be made to ensure that early career mathematicians, women and minorities receive full consideration to support their attendance.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5207", "attributes": { "award_id": "0923383", "title": "Galactic Center Workshop 2009: A Window Into the Nuclear Environment of Galaxies; October 2009; Shanghai, China", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "GALACTIC ASTRONOMY PROGRAM" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2009-09-01", "end_date": "2011-08-31", "award_amount": 50000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18437, "first_name": "Cornelia", "last_name": "Lang", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 220, "ror": "https://ror.org/036jqmy94", "name": "University of Iowa", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 220, "ror": "https://ror.org/036jqmy94", "name": "University of Iowa", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "IA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award will support travel and local expenses for United States students and early career scientists to attend the international workshop \"Galactic Center Workshop 2009: A Window into the Nuclear Environment of Galaxies\", to be held on October 19-23, 2009 in Shanghai, China. The purpose of the workshop is to highlight the recent research results on the center of the Milky Way and the nuclear regions of nearby galaxies. This conference is the latest in a series of scientific workshops held every 3-4 years on this topical area. Recent highlights include the high-resolution and sensitive new surveys of the Galactic Center interstellar medium at wavelengths from X-ray through radio, new constraints on the size and structure of the super massive black hole source, Sgr A*, and the most recent results from coordinated monitoring campaigns of this source. The workshop will also emphasize the relationship between the physical processes occurring in our own Galactic Center and those happening in the nuclei of the nearest galaxies. The format of the meetings will include substantial time for discussion in addition to the scheduled talks. These discussions, moderated by leading researchers in the field, will focus on the implications of the current results presented in the sessions and future directions for inquiry.\n\nThis workshop serves to promote Galactic Center astronomy in wider academic circles and on an international effort. The funding from this award will support the travel costs of as many as 20 junior researchers - graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty members - to attend this international scientific workshop. Travel support will give young and active members of the scientific community the opportunity to attend what will certainly be a very interesting and informative workshop at an early stage in their scientific careers. In addition, the participants will be exposed to the breadth of astronomical activities occurring in China. A diverse group of speakers and participants will be recruited for this workshop in order to represent the diversity of research currently being carried out on this topic.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5208", "attributes": { "award_id": "0918613", "title": "Collaborative Research: Updating the U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Database", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "LSS-Law And Social Sciences" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2009-09-01", "end_date": "2013-08-31", "award_amount": 138122, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18438, "first_name": "Keith", "last_name": "whittington", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [ { "id": 191, "ror": "https://ror.org/00hx57361", "name": "Princeton University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NJ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 191, "ror": "https://ror.org/00hx57361", "name": "Princeton University", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NJ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009\n(Public Law 111-5).\"\n\nFor two decades now, virtually all systematic analysis of the contemporary Supreme Court and its members has relied on Harold J. Spaeth's U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Database. This holds for research conducted by social scientists and, increasingly, by legal academics; and it holds for quantitative and qualitative studies, as well as those more descriptive in nature. In fact, several inventories of peer-reviewed journals show that it is the rare article on the Court that derives its data from an alternative source. Monographs published by top presses also regularly rely on the Database, and the many numerical studies of the Court receiving public attention in recent years have made liberal use of the data it houses. Spaeth's product is one of those rare creatures in the law and social science world: an invention that has substantially advanced a large area of study. Without question, the Database has empowered scholars in many disciplines to conduct original, path-breaking research of the highest intellectual merit.\n\nAnd yet, however invaluable the Database, it is now starting to show its age. Along these lines, we see two major sets of issues. First, for many scholars and their students the Database is diffcult to use. Second, the Database|with its emphasis on the modern (post-1946) Court has not kept pace with scholarly interests. Historical institutionalism and its various subsets have pushed scholars to broaden their time horizons. Within the field of public law, analysts have created a veritable cottage industry devoted to studies of the Court of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Even judicial specialists who ground their work in the 21st century are beginning to apply modern social science methodologies to historical data, with the goals of testing theories of institutional development and illuminating current-day practices and patterns. \n\nWith prior support from the National Science Foundation, we have addressed the first concern and brought the Database in line with 21st century technology. We now address address the second issue. Specifically, we broaden the Database's scope by adding many more cases: the 19,675 resolved between 1792, the year of the Court's first published decision and 1946, the earliest year in the current Database. Our hope is that systematic, historical data on the Court will create an even more valuable a public, multi-user Database that will stimulate scholars and their students to explore new avenues of inquiry, as well as to revisit enduring questions that have yet to be addressed with reliable and valid data. In short, the project not only facilitates scholarship of the highest level of intellectual merit; it also has a broader impact on the community of scholars studying the Court by providing a highly reliable, comprehensive, and adaptable Database.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5211", "attributes": { "award_id": "0902218", "title": "Reconstructing climate variability and aridity in the Sierra Nevada, CA, based on isotopic evidence in sediments from Swamp Lake, Yosemite", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Unknown", "GLOBAL CHANGE" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [], "start_date": "2009-09-01", "end_date": "2013-08-31", "award_amount": 201053, "principal_investigator": { "id": 18443, "first_name": "Adina", "last_name": "Paytan", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 485, "ror": "", "name": "University of California-Santa Cruz", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 485, "ror": "", "name": "University of California-Santa Cruz", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).\n\nAn understanding of how climate in California responds to global and regional forcing mechanisms on multiple timescales is crucial for the management of scarce water resources and for predicting how natural patterns will interact with future climate warming. In light of the short instrumental record, only paleoclimatic records can provide the basis for understanding climate variability and ecosystem responses on longer timescales, capturing many cycles of the decadal and centennial-scale processes that control regional climate and determine water supplies, as well as the range of extreme conditions experienced under different climatic regimes.\nThis grant develops new records of climatic variability in California based on isotopic evidence in the 19,000-year sedimentary sequence recovered from Swamp Lake in the central Sierra Nevada. This longer record allows high-resolution (20-50 yr) reconstructions for previously identified dry intervals in the mid- and late-Holocene, in order to better understand the decadal climate variability underlying long-term droughts. Previous work demonstrated that measurements of hydrogen isotopes (del-D) in biomarker compounds extracted from sedimentary organic matter (OM) provides a powerful paleohydrologic tool. The current project uses coupled del-D signatures of terrestrial plant and aquatic biomarkers to reconstruct past precipitation patterns, evaporative balance and water availability in the Sierra. A parallel record utilizing a suite of OM proxies (total C & N, C/N ratio, del-13C, del-15N, biomarker abundances) traces OM sources, lake productivity and other ecosystem responses to changing climate conditions. Climate reconstructions are supported by a multi-year field study to understand the isotope hydrology of the lake basin, calibration with the instrumental record, and comparisons with existing records from Swamp Lake, the Sierra Nevada, and California as a whole. The development of a decadally- to centennially-resolved record of Late Pleistocene-Holocene climatic variability for the Sierra Nevada represents a major step forward for paleoclimatic research in California. Such records are of direct societal importance because processes on these timescales determine water supplies, influence the distribution of plants and animals, and modulate the occurrence of higher-frequency events such as floods and droughts.\nThe project provides involvement for underrepresented and minority undergraduate students in research, and participation in programs that aim to strengthen their leadership skills. Mentoring is coordinated for students from the AGEP program, and a 'first grad geology program - Geokids' at UCSC, and a K-12 education class 'Communicating ocean sciences' is offered. The project participates in the NSF-funded national education programs 'Science Diaries' and 'Kids Science Challenge' (through Pulse of the Planet, NPR). The PI also is developing an inquiry-based curriculum on the topic of paleoceangraphy and paleoclimatology.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 1384, "pages": 1424, "count": 14236 } } }