# data[].attributes.grants[].title
RAPID: Mathematical models for uncovering neurological disorders among the U.S. population infected with COVID-19

# data[].attributes.grants[].abstract
The COVID-19 virus has been statistically linked to specific medical disorders connected to the brain and nervous system. Although in the past a fraction of SARS and MER patients have been shown to have anxiety and other neurological disorders, the scale of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and 2021 is another order of magnitude. The reasons for neurological disorders among COVID-19 patients in the U.S. and other countries are not clear, but the data indicate that some of COVID-19 patients have issues with their awareness, consciousness, and cognizance. Experiments have been conducted on patients worldwide and data was recorded on the behavior of COVID-19 patients. In this project, the principal investigators will develop a mathematical model for an understanding of these neurological mechanisms. The model to be developed will be validated and verified. Once the model is calibrated with data from the U.S. and other countries, the investigators will study the role of COVID in developing brain disorders. They will combine the predictability of the model according to the stochastic volatility of the parameters. The results will have an important impact on the overall well-being of the population and society as a whole.If uncertainty concerning the reasons behind brain damage continues then that could further increase the number of people in the U.S. who would have neurological disorders. In spite of the positive influence of vaccination programs, COVID-19 causes some of neurological disorders among the current patients. Along with the COVID-19 burden, hospitals and health administrators need to understand other long-term, brain-related disorders in the population. A good, quantitative study will be of immediate help in controlling the incidence of brain-related damaged individuals who have COVID-19 in the U.S. The investigators intend to provide a free consultation to neuro-physicians across the nation if and when they need any immediate quantitative assistance in predictions (within a limited time frame). The investigators will develop a mathematical model to understand the size and complexity of the association between brain deterioration and COVID-19 in the U.S. Specifically, they will predict and evaluate people in the U.S. who will likely have neurological disorders like psychosis, hemorrhage, delirium, and stroke. Clinical data have shown some association, but why there are such causes of disorders for the COVID patients is not yet clear from these studies. Several studies among COVID patients have found a statistical correlation between clinical case definitions for psychiatric diagnoses and intracerebral hemorrhage. Another uncertainty remains in understanding the impact of COVID in blood-brain barrier locations; clinical studies are in progress in this direction. A statistical regression analysis on a large clinical population might provide an association among various independent variables of neurological disorders.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

# data[].attributes.grants[].keywords
['PDEs', ' underreporting', ' wavelets', ' neuroscience', ' mental illness', ' mathematical model', 'epidemiology', ' public health', ' pandemics', ' artificial intelligence']

# data[].attributes.grants[].other_investigators[].keywords
['Artificial Intelligence', ' Mathematical Analysis', ' epidemiology', ' public health', ' biology', ' Virus', ' Complex Analysis', ' Stochastic Process', ' Mathematical Models']

# data[].attributes.grants[].other_investigators[].desired_collaboration
Development of PDEs for understanding multi-morbid conditions due to COVID-19  (Jointly with S.G. Krantz)

# data[].attributes.grants[].title
Understanding and addressing challenges to informed consent and research compliance during Covid-19 research

# data[].attributes.grants[].abstract
Within all US and international codes of research ethics, informed consent serves as a cornerstone for the ethical conduct of research. The application to our current parent R01, “Implementing Evidence-based Informed Consent Practices to Address the Risk of Alzheimer's Dementia and Cognitive Impairment in Clinical Trials” (AG058254) reviewed a large body of literature and concluded that there are several evidence-based practices that improve the consent process: using plain language and optimizing consent document layout; assessing understanding of information using a validated instrument; reviewing with participants any information that was misunderstood; and involving surrogate decision-makers as necessary. Our current parent R01 has 3 specific aims—including development of a web-based toolkit and a social media push—that collectively aim to increase the implementation of these evidence-based consent practices (EBCPs). Implementing EBCPs is made more difficult in times of pandemic. Severely ill patients may be unable to consent, yet quarantine prevents access to surrogates. Electronic consent forms may need to be used, because researchers may not be allowed to enter rooms with patients. These electronic consent forms may need to be produced very quickly, with little attention given to plain language and formatting. Consent information may be incomplete as information about risks may be very limited. Finally, research during a pandemic may lead people to embrace a research ethic that is more strongly focused on the common good (public health) than individual rights. This leads us to propose the following aims in an administrative supplement that examines research on Covid19. 1. Analyze qualitative (open-ended) survey data from IRB members and Covid19 researchers on how current  ethical, regulatory, and institutional requirements might pose barriers to urgent Covid19 research, and what  accommodations would facilitate such research. Relevant to the current R01, we will engage in text mining  and model building to explore the issues arising from the need for informed consent, waivers of consent, or  permissions for use of human subject data and biospecimens. 2. Review findings from the survey of IRB members and Covid19 researchers to guide adaptation and  expansion of the parent R01's EBCP toolkit and implementation trial. We anticipate that this will entail  providing guidance on electronic informed consent processes and alternatives to legally authorized  representatives when patients lack the ability to consent to research. 3. Explore the policy implications of the project, and broadly disseminate data and findings. We will publish a  special issue of the journal, Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, publish our findings in peer reviewed journals,  and anonymize and deposit data in the ICPSR data repository at the University of Michigan.

# data[].attributes.grants[].keywords
['Address', 'Administrative Supplement', 'Advocate', 'Alzheimer&apos', 's Disease', 'Alzheimer&apos', 's disease risk', 'Attention', 'Bioethics', 'COVID-19', 'Categories', 'Clinical Trials', 'Code', 'Collection', 'Common Good', 'Computer software', 'Consent', 'Consent Forms', 'Data', 'Data Collection', 'Data Set', 'Deposition', 'Development', 'Ethicists', 'Ethics', 'Evidence based practice', 'Human Research Ethics', 'Human Resources', 'Impaired cognition', 'Individual', 'Informed Consent', 'Institutional Review Boards', 'International', 'Journals', 'Language', 'Lead', 'Legal', 'Literature', 'MeSH Thesaurus', 'Michigan', 'Modeling', 'Online Systems', 'Ontology', 'Parents', 'Participant', 'Patients', 'Peer Review', 'Policies', 'Process', 'Professional Organizations', 'Public Health', 'Published Comment', 'Publishing', 'Quarantine', 'Recommendation', 'Regulation', 'Research', 'Research Ethics', 'Research Personnel', 'Rights', 'Risk', 'Surveys', 'Time', 'Universities', 'data warehouse', 'evidence base', 'human subject', 'implementation trial', 'improved', 'instrument', 'member', 'model building', 'novel', 'pandemic disease', 'policy implication', 'prevent', 'response', 'social media', 'surrogate decision maker', 'symposium', 'text searching', 'waiver', 'research ethics', ' regulatory compliance', ' informed consent', ' conflicts of interest', ' oversight']

# data[].attributes.grants[].principal_investigator.keywords
['bioethics', ' research ethics', ' regulatory compliance', ' social science research', ' surveys', ' qualitative research']

# data[].attributes.grants[].title
Understanding and addressing challenges to informed consent and research compliance during Covid-19 research

# data[].attributes.grants[].abstract
Within all US and international codes of research ethics, informed consent serves as a cornerstone for the ethical conduct of research. The application to our current parent R01, “Implementing Evidence-based Informed Consent Practices to Address the Risk of Alzheimer's Dementia and Cognitive Impairment in Clinical Trials” (AG058254) reviewed a large body of literature and concluded that there are several evidence-based practices that improve the consent process: using plain language and optimizing consent document layout; assessing understanding of information using a validated instrument; reviewing with participants any information that was misunderstood; and involving surrogate decision-makers as necessary. Our current parent R01 has 3 specific aims—including development of a web-based toolkit and a social media push—that collectively aim to increase the implementation of these evidence-based consent practices (EBCPs). Implementing EBCPs is made more difficult in times of pandemic. Severely ill patients may be unable to consent, yet quarantine prevents access to surrogates. Electronic consent forms may need to be used, because researchers may not be allowed to enter rooms with patients. These electronic consent forms may need to be produced very quickly, with little attention given to plain language and formatting. Consent information may be incomplete as information about risks may be very limited. Finally, research during a pandemic may lead people to embrace a research ethic that is more strongly focused on the common good (public health) than individual rights. This leads us to propose the following aims in an administrative supplement that examines research on Covid19. 1. Analyze qualitative (open-ended) survey data from IRB members and Covid19 researchers on how current  ethical, regulatory, and institutional requirements might pose barriers to urgent Covid19 research, and what  accommodations would facilitate such research. Relevant to the current R01, we will engage in text mining  and model building to explore the issues arising from the need for informed consent, waivers of consent, or  permissions for use of human subject data and biospecimens. 2. Review findings from the survey of IRB members and Covid19 researchers to guide adaptation and  expansion of the parent R01's EBCP toolkit and implementation trial. We anticipate that this will entail  providing guidance on electronic informed consent processes and alternatives to legally authorized  representatives when patients lack the ability to consent to research. 3. Explore the policy implications of the project, and broadly disseminate data and findings. We will publish a  special issue of the journal, Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, publish our findings in peer reviewed journals,  and anonymize and deposit data in the ICPSR data repository at the University of Michigan.

# data[].attributes.grants[].keywords
['Address', 'Administrative Supplement', 'Advocate', 'Alzheimer&apos', 's Disease', 'Alzheimer&apos', 's disease risk', 'Attention', 'Bioethics', 'COVID-19', 'Categories', 'Clinical Trials', 'Code', 'Collection', 'Common Good', 'Computer software', 'Consent', 'Consent Forms', 'Data', 'Data Collection', 'Data Set', 'Deposition', 'Development', 'Ethicists', 'Ethics', 'Evidence based practice', 'Human Research Ethics', 'Human Resources', 'Impaired cognition', 'Individual', 'Informed Consent', 'Institutional Review Boards', 'International', 'Journals', 'Language', 'Lead', 'Legal', 'Literature', 'MeSH Thesaurus', 'Michigan', 'Modeling', 'Online Systems', 'Ontology', 'Parents', 'Participant', 'Patients', 'Peer Review', 'Policies', 'Process', 'Professional Organizations', 'Public Health', 'Published Comment', 'Publishing', 'Quarantine', 'Recommendation', 'Regulation', 'Research', 'Research Ethics', 'Research Personnel', 'Rights', 'Risk', 'Surveys', 'Time', 'Universities', 'data warehouse', 'evidence base', 'human subject', 'implementation trial', 'improved', 'instrument', 'member', 'model building', 'novel', 'pandemic disease', 'policy implication', 'prevent', 'response', 'social media', 'surrogate decision maker', 'symposium', 'text searching', 'waiver', 'research ethics', ' regulatory compliance', ' informed consent', ' conflicts of interest', ' oversight']

# data[].attributes.grants[].principal_investigator.keywords
['bioethics', ' research ethics', ' regulatory compliance', ' social science research', ' surveys', ' qualitative research']

# data[].attributes.grants[].funder_divisions
['National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)']

# data[].attributes.grants[].abstract
SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes Coronavirus Disease (COVID) emerged in China in late 2019. It rapidly spread worldwide and is now causing a pandemic with high morbidity and mortality. Because SARS-COV-2 is a novel virus in humans, there are many fundamental knowledge gaps in our understanding of the virus and disease. To undertake a detailed investigation of SARS-COV-2 in Nicaragua, we propose to add on SARS-COV-2 aims to our existing Household Influenza Cohort Study. The research questions addressed build naturally on the infrastructure currently in place to conduct the Household Cohort Study. Specifically, we will add SARS-COV-2 testing on to samples that are already collected through our ongoing cohort study, add the collection of blood samples around SARS-COV-2 infection in participants, and perform a household SARS- COV-2 transmission study. This proposal addresses major gaps in knowledge on COVID natural history and transmission. It is thus timely and well-poised to have substantial public health and scientific impact.

# data[].attributes.grants[].keywords
['2019-nCoV', 'Address', 'Affect', 'Blood specimen', 'China', 'Climate', 'Cohort Studies', 'Collection', 'Data', 'Developing Countries', 'Household', 'Human', 'Infection', 'Influenza', 'Infrastructure', 'Integration Host Factors', 'Investigation', 'Knowledge', 'Morbidity - disease rate', 'Nicaragua', 'Participant', 'Public Health', 'Research', 'Sampling', 'Testing', 'Time', 'Viral', 'Virus', 'Virus Diseases', 'coronavirus disease', 'disease natural history', 'disorder control', 'flu', 'flu transmission', 'improved', 'influenzavirus', 'mortality', 'novel virus', 'pandemic disease', 'transmission process', 'viral transmission', 'SARS-CoV-2', ' transmission', ' Cohort', ' immunity', ' humans']

# data[].attributes.grants[].principal_investigator.keywords
['epidemiology', ' infectious diseases', ' transmission', ' cohort study', ' influenza', ' RSV', ' SARS-CoV-2']

# data[].attributes.grants[].funder_divisions
['National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)']

# data[].attributes.grants[].abstract
SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes Coronavirus Disease (COVID) emerged in China in late 2019. It rapidly spread worldwide and is now causing a pandemic with high morbidity and mortality. Because SARS-COV-2 is a novel virus in humans, there are many fundamental knowledge gaps in our understanding of the virus and disease. To undertake a detailed investigation of SARS-COV-2 in Nicaragua, we propose to add on SARS-COV-2 aims to our existing Household Influenza Cohort Study. The research questions addressed build naturally on the infrastructure currently in place to conduct the Household Cohort Study. Specifically, we will add SARS-COV-2 testing on to samples that are already collected through our ongoing cohort study, add the collection of blood samples around SARS-COV-2 infection in participants, and perform a household SARS- COV-2 transmission study. This proposal addresses major gaps in knowledge on COVID natural history and transmission. It is thus timely and well-poised to have substantial public health and scientific impact.

# data[].attributes.grants[].keywords
['2019-nCoV', 'Address', 'Affect', 'Blood specimen', 'China', 'Climate', 'Cohort Studies', 'Collection', 'Data', 'Developing Countries', 'Household', 'Human', 'Infection', 'Influenza', 'Infrastructure', 'Integration Host Factors', 'Investigation', 'Knowledge', 'Morbidity - disease rate', 'Nicaragua', 'Participant', 'Public Health', 'Research', 'Sampling', 'Testing', 'Time', 'Viral', 'Virus', 'Virus Diseases', 'coronavirus disease', 'disease natural history', 'disorder control', 'flu', 'flu transmission', 'improved', 'influenzavirus', 'mortality', 'novel virus', 'pandemic disease', 'transmission process', 'viral transmission', 'SARS-CoV-2', ' transmission', ' Cohort', ' immunity', ' humans']

# data[].attributes.grants[].principal_investigator.keywords
['epidemiology', ' infectious diseases', ' transmission', ' cohort study', ' influenza', ' RSV', ' SARS-CoV-2']

# data[].attributes.grants[].title
RAPID Proposal: Psychological distance and risk perception  related to the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak

# data[].attributes.grants[].abstract
This project assesses the American public’s perception of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak that originated from Wuhan, China. The focus of this research is to examine whether Americans’ perception of the root cause of the outbreak, as well as whether they believe the outbreak is a distant issue for most Americans, will determine their risk perception and emotional responses to the outbreak. Further, this project examines the extent to which risk perception and emotions influence whether Americans seek information about this issue, share information with others, and support public health policies including international cooperation. The proposed research advances risk communication research, as well as enhances our understanding of strategic messaging design to benefit public health, prosperity and welfare.The proposed research is an experimental survey to assess 1) how psychological distance (especially spatial and social distance) and causal attribution influence the U.S. public’s risk perception surrounding the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak; 2) how mental construal of the outbreak determines Americans’ emotional responses to the outbreak; 3) how risk perception and emotional responses influence risk communication behaviors and public support for U.S. involvement in providing aid; and 4) whether cultural cognition moderates these relationships. The research involves a survey, based on a nationally representative sample of 1,000 participants, who are randomly assigned to four experimental conditions. Psychological distance and causal attributions are the main experimental factors with cultural cognition as the primary moderator, while risk perception, emotional responses, communication behaviors, and support for U.S. response effort are the outcome variables. The outbreak provides a unique context to study public risk perception and risk communication behaviors. Although only a small number cases have been confirmed in the U.S. at the inception of the research, there is heightened media attention and the U.S. government has issued a travel ban to all foreign nationals who have been to mainland China. It is possible that social cognitive mechanisms, such as psychological distance, causal attribution, and cultural cognition will synergistically influence public risk perceptions and subsequent communication behaviors and support for public health policies. Exploring these mechanisms and their respective impacts can help us understand how to communicate better about a major disease outbreak in an interconnected world.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

# data[].attributes.grants[].title
RAPID Proposal: Psychological distance and risk perception  related to the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak

# data[].attributes.grants[].abstract
This project assesses the American public’s perception of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak that originated from Wuhan, China. The focus of this research is to examine whether Americans’ perception of the root cause of the outbreak, as well as whether they believe the outbreak is a distant issue for most Americans, will determine their risk perception and emotional responses to the outbreak. Further, this project examines the extent to which risk perception and emotions influence whether Americans seek information about this issue, share information with others, and support public health policies including international cooperation. The proposed research advances risk communication research, as well as enhances our understanding of strategic messaging design to benefit public health, prosperity and welfare.The proposed research is an experimental survey to assess 1) how psychological distance (especially spatial and social distance) and causal attribution influence the U.S. public’s risk perception surrounding the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak; 2) how mental construal of the outbreak determines Americans’ emotional responses to the outbreak; 3) how risk perception and emotional responses influence risk communication behaviors and public support for U.S. involvement in providing aid; and 4) whether cultural cognition moderates these relationships. The research involves a survey, based on a nationally representative sample of 1,000 participants, who are randomly assigned to four experimental conditions. Psychological distance and causal attributions are the main experimental factors with cultural cognition as the primary moderator, while risk perception, emotional responses, communication behaviors, and support for U.S. response effort are the outcome variables. The outbreak provides a unique context to study public risk perception and risk communication behaviors. Although only a small number cases have been confirmed in the U.S. at the inception of the research, there is heightened media attention and the U.S. government has issued a travel ban to all foreign nationals who have been to mainland China. It is possible that social cognitive mechanisms, such as psychological distance, causal attribution, and cultural cognition will synergistically influence public risk perceptions and subsequent communication behaviors and support for public health policies. Exploring these mechanisms and their respective impacts can help us understand how to communicate better about a major disease outbreak in an interconnected world.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

# data[].attributes.grants[].title
RAPID Proposal: Psychological distance and risk perception  related to the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak

# data[].attributes.grants[].abstract
This project assesses the American public’s perception of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak that originated from Wuhan, China. The focus of this research is to examine whether Americans’ perception of the root cause of the outbreak, as well as whether they believe the outbreak is a distant issue for most Americans, will determine their risk perception and emotional responses to the outbreak. Further, this project examines the extent to which risk perception and emotions influence whether Americans seek information about this issue, share information with others, and support public health policies including international cooperation. The proposed research advances risk communication research, as well as enhances our understanding of strategic messaging design to benefit public health, prosperity and welfare.The proposed research is an experimental survey to assess 1) how psychological distance (especially spatial and social distance) and causal attribution influence the U.S. public’s risk perception surrounding the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak; 2) how mental construal of the outbreak determines Americans’ emotional responses to the outbreak; 3) how risk perception and emotional responses influence risk communication behaviors and public support for U.S. involvement in providing aid; and 4) whether cultural cognition moderates these relationships. The research involves a survey, based on a nationally representative sample of 1,000 participants, who are randomly assigned to four experimental conditions. Psychological distance and causal attributions are the main experimental factors with cultural cognition as the primary moderator, while risk perception, emotional responses, communication behaviors, and support for U.S. response effort are the outcome variables. The outbreak provides a unique context to study public risk perception and risk communication behaviors. Although only a small number cases have been confirmed in the U.S. at the inception of the research, there is heightened media attention and the U.S. government has issued a travel ban to all foreign nationals who have been to mainland China. It is possible that social cognitive mechanisms, such as psychological distance, causal attribution, and cultural cognition will synergistically influence public risk perceptions and subsequent communication behaviors and support for public health policies. Exploring these mechanisms and their respective impacts can help us understand how to communicate better about a major disease outbreak in an interconnected world.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

# data[].attributes.grants[].title
RAPID Proposal: Psychological distance and risk perception  related to the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak

# data[].attributes.grants[].abstract
This project assesses the American public’s perception of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak that originated from Wuhan, China. The focus of this research is to examine whether Americans’ perception of the root cause of the outbreak, as well as whether they believe the outbreak is a distant issue for most Americans, will determine their risk perception and emotional responses to the outbreak. Further, this project examines the extent to which risk perception and emotions influence whether Americans seek information about this issue, share information with others, and support public health policies including international cooperation. The proposed research advances risk communication research, as well as enhances our understanding of strategic messaging design to benefit public health, prosperity and welfare.The proposed research is an experimental survey to assess 1) how psychological distance (especially spatial and social distance) and causal attribution influence the U.S. public’s risk perception surrounding the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak; 2) how mental construal of the outbreak determines Americans’ emotional responses to the outbreak; 3) how risk perception and emotional responses influence risk communication behaviors and public support for U.S. involvement in providing aid; and 4) whether cultural cognition moderates these relationships. The research involves a survey, based on a nationally representative sample of 1,000 participants, who are randomly assigned to four experimental conditions. Psychological distance and causal attributions are the main experimental factors with cultural cognition as the primary moderator, while risk perception, emotional responses, communication behaviors, and support for U.S. response effort are the outcome variables. The outbreak provides a unique context to study public risk perception and risk communication behaviors. Although only a small number cases have been confirmed in the U.S. at the inception of the research, there is heightened media attention and the U.S. government has issued a travel ban to all foreign nationals who have been to mainland China. It is possible that social cognitive mechanisms, such as psychological distance, causal attribution, and cultural cognition will synergistically influence public risk perceptions and subsequent communication behaviors and support for public health policies. Exploring these mechanisms and their respective impacts can help us understand how to communicate better about a major disease outbreak in an interconnected world.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

# data[].attributes.grants[].title
RAPID Proposal: Psychological distance and risk perception  related to the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak

# data[].attributes.grants[].abstract
This project assesses the American public’s perception of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak that originated from Wuhan, China. The focus of this research is to examine whether Americans’ perception of the root cause of the outbreak, as well as whether they believe the outbreak is a distant issue for most Americans, will determine their risk perception and emotional responses to the outbreak. Further, this project examines the extent to which risk perception and emotions influence whether Americans seek information about this issue, share information with others, and support public health policies including international cooperation. The proposed research advances risk communication research, as well as enhances our understanding of strategic messaging design to benefit public health, prosperity and welfare.The proposed research is an experimental survey to assess 1) how psychological distance (especially spatial and social distance) and causal attribution influence the U.S. public’s risk perception surrounding the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak; 2) how mental construal of the outbreak determines Americans’ emotional responses to the outbreak; 3) how risk perception and emotional responses influence risk communication behaviors and public support for U.S. involvement in providing aid; and 4) whether cultural cognition moderates these relationships. The research involves a survey, based on a nationally representative sample of 1,000 participants, who are randomly assigned to four experimental conditions. Psychological distance and causal attributions are the main experimental factors with cultural cognition as the primary moderator, while risk perception, emotional responses, communication behaviors, and support for U.S. response effort are the outcome variables. The outbreak provides a unique context to study public risk perception and risk communication behaviors. Although only a small number cases have been confirmed in the U.S. at the inception of the research, there is heightened media attention and the U.S. government has issued a travel ban to all foreign nationals who have been to mainland China. It is possible that social cognitive mechanisms, such as psychological distance, causal attribution, and cultural cognition will synergistically influence public risk perceptions and subsequent communication behaviors and support for public health policies. Exploring these mechanisms and their respective impacts can help us understand how to communicate better about a major disease outbreak in an interconnected world.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.