Cooperative Agreement 58400000043

This Project Grant award of $158,500 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support research to illuminate how a parent's adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and neighborhood environment influence their child's obesity risk. The study, led by Temple University, will create a Neighborhood ACEs Index (NAI) to examine how neighborhood characteristics associated with ACEs...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary New York University School of Medicine received a $749,997 Project Grant award from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Investigations and Technical Assistance program (CFDA 93.283) effective July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2027. The funded research project, "Exploring Body Mass Index and Health Disparities on Lung Function Trajectories in WTC Survivors," investigates...

Summary Albert Einstein College of Medicine received a $199,584 Project Grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) under the Cancer Research Manpower program (CFDA 93.398), awarded May 1, 2026 and extending through April 30, 2031. This research initiative examines the association between neighborhood disadvantage and obesity-related cancer (ORC) incidence in U.S. Hispanic/Latino populations by leveraging data from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL), the largest...

This $347,527.92 Project Grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the Department of Health and Human Services will fund the development of a clinical decision support tool to maximize outcomes for obesity treatment in primary care. The grant recipient, Dr. Hallie Espe-Huynh of The Miriam Hospital, will work with stakeholders to design a machine learning model within a prototype clinical decision support system. The tool aims to predict early risk of nonresponse to online...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $160,400 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to study the impact of U.S. immigration policies on dietary acculturation and childhood obesity among children of Mexican immigrants. The 2-year project (8/9/2024 - 7/31/2026) will analyze nationally-representative data linked to state and local immigration policy data to...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) awarded a $107,448.80 cooperative agreement to the Pennsylvania Department of Health to collect, analyze, and publish occupational safety and health statistics under the Compensation and Working Conditions program (CFDA 17.005). Through this one-year award beginning October 1, 2022, the awardee will partner with BLS to survey non-fatal workplace injuries and illnesses and collect data on fatal workplace incidents. This data will be analyzed and published to...

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) awarded a $439,864 Project Grant to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai on July 1, 2025, for research investigating premature biological aging among World Trade Center (WTC) responders. The grant supports a two-year research initiative extending through June 30, 2027, and is executed under the CDC Investigations and Technical Assistance program (CFDA 93.283), which supports occupational health research and evaluation of...

The Rhode Island Department of Health, Environmental Health Division will provide confidential occupational safety and health consultation services to small businesses in Rhode Island through September 30, 2023 under a $1,439,000 cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). As part of OSHA's Consultation Agreements program (CFDA 17.504), which provides funding for consultative workplace safety and health services...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) awarded Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai a $345,528 Project Grant effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027 to investigate liver disease, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk among African American World Trade Center general responders. This research initiative addresses occupational health outcomes in populations exposed during the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center...

This $106,035 cooperative agreement from the Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, under the Compensation and Working Conditions program (CFDA 17.005), will support the collection, analysis, and publication of occupational safety and health statistics. As the primary source of public health data on job-related injuries, illnesses, and fatalities, the recipient will conduct the Survey of Non-fatal Injuries and Illnesses and Fatal Injury Census in a cost-sharing partnership with states...