Cooperative Agreement AID663A1700006

This Project Grant award under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), aims to use natural language processing and generative AI models to capture social determinants of health (SDH) information from patients. The $142,864 award, with a performance period from September 2024 to August 2026, will process the SDH data into discrete elements that can be...

This Project Grant award, titled "ENGAGING VULNERABLE WOMEN IN HIV PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION THROUGH A STIGMA-REDUCTION INTERVENTION: A PILOT STUDY," is funded by the National Institutes of Health's John E. Fogarty International Center (CFDA 93.989 - International Research and Research Training). The $173,197 award supports a collaborative research project between Brown University, Beijing Normal University, and Emory University to develop and pilot test a stigma-reduction,...

This Project Grant award of $430,252 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative multi-year research project examining the multi-sectoral determinants of health in low-income communities globally. The research uses qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate the formulation, interpretation, translation, and implementation of health policies across local, national, and transnational scales. The project...

The federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), funds the "Innovative Network on the Science and Practice of Implementation, Research, and Engagement Center (INSPIRE)". The $1,996,048 award aims to advance the science and practice of dissemination and implementation (D&I) research in low-to-middle income countries by adapting,...

This $3,640,897 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will fund a cluster randomized trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a multisectoral climate-smart agricultural intervention, called Shamba Maisha, on the reproductive and sexual health outcomes of adolescent girls and young women in Western Kenya. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Implementing the Shamba...

The Center for Advancing Innovation, Inc. was awarded a $2.49 million project grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration under the BUILD TO SCALE federal grant program (CFDA 11.024) to launch the Global Health Innovation Challenge. Over three years, the Center will source and launch over 60 high-growth startups in the Washington D.C. metro area to address global health threats using technology. The startups will focus on preventing, diagnosing, treating and...

This project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) provides $150,000 to the University of Alabama to build a smart and connected rural community for improved healthcare access in the underserved Black Belt region of West Alabama. The key objectives are to: Develop a smart health and mobility system (SHMS) to leverage and coordinate existing transportation resources to...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), funds a mixed methods study to explore how a person-centered care model can improve HIV testing engagement and service access for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) communities in India. The $146,922 award, effective from December 2024 to March 2025, supports research activities with TGD participants and healthcare providers to 1) identify profiles of HIV...

This Project Grant award from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (CFDA 93.110 - Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs) provides $792,334 to the Center for Health Policy Development, a non-profit organization in Washington, DC, to support maternal and child health innovation in states. Through this 3-year project, the Center will leverage its expertise working with state health officials to develop, implement, and sustain state-level policy initiatives focused on addressing...

This Project Grant award of $250,000 from the Inter-American Foundation's (IAF) Assistance for Overseas Programs federal grant program (CFDA 85.750) supports the Association D'Aide DES Techniciens En Physiotherapie Pour Les Personnes Handicapees (AATPH) in delivering physical therapy, community outreach, job skills training, and microcredit access for people with disabilities in Haiti from April 2022 to April 2024. Specifically, the grantee AATPH aims to improve quality of life and social...