Cooperative Agreement 90CSSG0019

This $360,000 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) will enable Northwestern University to adapt and pilot test the EMPOWER strategy. EMPOWER is a technology-enabled, primary care-based health literacy intervention to empower cisgender women with increased vulnerability to HIV to make informed decisions about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The project aims to: 1) adapt the EMPOWER...

This Project Grant award of $238,884.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to assess the efficacy of digital health technologies in a low-resourced, predominantly rural setting. The University of South Florida (USF) is conducting this study to examine how digital health services affect treatment experiences, communication strategies, and relationships between patients and healthcare providers. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, CFDA 47.070, provides $393,392 to Northeastern University from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2030. The project aims to develop a context-aware framework that can optimize the delivery of digital health interventions through personal computing devices like smartphones and wearables. Key research thrusts include: 1) Modeling a person's physical and emotional contextual...

This $276,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships grant funds the development of a personalized consumer health guidance platform by Rift Valley Health Co. The platform will analyze an individual's sleep, exercise, nutrition, and mental health data from wearables and smart home devices to generate a baseline health profile and recommendations. Both objective biometric data and subjective user inputs will be integrated to draw meaningful correlations and develop a...

This Project Grant award of $302,293 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program aims to improve self-experimentation technology to empower individuals in managing their health and wellbeing. The 5-year project, which commenced on June 1, 2025, seeks to enhance the agency of individuals to make decisions about their health by supporting explorations into personal health questions, such as the impacts of diet, physical activity, and...

The Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living awarded a $673,014 cooperative agreement to Innovations For Aging, LLC under the Empowering Older Adults and Adults with Disabilities through Chronic Disease Self-Management Education Programs program. As a sub-awardee of Metropolitan Area Agency On Aging, Inc., Innovations For Aging will deliver chronic disease self-management education from May 2022 through April 2025. The cooperative agreement aims to increase...

This $599,146 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) aims to digitalize and validate a family-based behavioral intervention called "FIT Families" for improving health outcomes among African American adolescents with obesity. The project, titled "Digitalization of a Multicomponent Family-Based Behavioral Intervention (Digital Wellness Nurse - FIT Families) for...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has awarded a $124,714 Project Grant under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212) to Empo Health, Inc. The purpose of this Phase I project is to improve Empo Health's novel in-home imaging bathroom scale for remote monitoring of diabetic foot conditions, particularly in rural areas with limited internet connectivity. The project aims to enhance the device's ability to function...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), under the Nursing Research program (CFDA 93.361), supports the development of Potentia Analytics Inc.'s "MyDocSaid" application. The $284,317 award will fund the creation of a patient-centric digital health recorder that uses advanced natural language processing and artificial intelligence to transcribe, summarize, and provide contextual insights from medical conversations. The goal is to enhance patient...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $632,775 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to the University of Georgia Research Foundation. The grant aims to develop and pilot test the EMPOWER (Enhancing and Motivating PrEP Options among Women through Empowerment and Resilience) telehealth intervention to optimize pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake and persistence among African American women in the southern United States. The project...