Cooperative Agreement AID688A1500001

The National Science Foundation awarded Indiana University a $370,093 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to develop strategies for effective science communication using social media during the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant will fund a mixed-methods study examining how scientists have used Twitter and Reddit to interact with the public on COVID-19 topics and identify best practices for two-way online engagement. Researchers will analyze social media...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded a $31,206,381 Cooperative Agreement under the USAID Foreign Assistance for Programs Overseas (CFDA 98.001) program to Family Health International (FHI 360) on September 26, 2024. The objective of this Cooperative Agreement is to increase the adoption and sustained practice of priority behaviors and the development and maintenance of enabling social norms, including gender norms, for improved health and development outcomes through the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program) provides $375,000 to the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) to conduct a community-engaged study examining the role of social media influencers in addressing vaccine information integrity. The key products and services to be delivered include: Using social listening tools to collect, code, and analyze social media posts and comments about a new respiratory...

This federal Project Grant award of $556,806 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) aims to advance knowledge on the impacts of School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) on students' health care utilization, behavioral, educational, and economic outcomes. The project will use difference-in-difference models to measure the causal effects of SBHCs on a range of student outcomes,...

This $836,895 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will fund a 5-year research study to develop and evaluate communication strategies to promote HIV vaccine and prevention uptake among young Black women in the Southern U.S. The project, led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, will use community-based participatory methods to co-create theory-based messaging, graphics, and videos to...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) totaling $707,796 to the Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to build on the success of the "Malkia Klabu" (MK) loyalty program and evaluate strategies for scaling the program's HIV prevention services for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: 1)...

This National Science Foundation award provides $143,985 to Michigan State University through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to support strategic communication infrastructure for scientists. The one-year project grant, awarded on September 15, 2022, will fund initial planning and design of integrated projects to increase scientists' access to strategic communication guidance from experts. Interviews with scientists, practitioners, and communication...

This Project Grant award of $595,552 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 develop and test a two-way SMS platform to prevent and treat wasting among HIV-infected and HIV-exposed uninfected children. The project will create a Maternally Administered Malnutrition Monitoring System (MAMMS) combined with Infant and Young Child Education (IYCF) delivered via SMS. After...

The Government of the District of Columbia, through its Department of Behavioral Health (DBH), was awarded a $1,842,659 Promoting Integration of Primary and Behavioral Health Care (PIPBHC) grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance (CFDA 93.243) program. The funding will be used to expand integrated primary and behavioral health care services for...

This $595,183 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a research project that examines the factors influencing the spread and persistence of dynamic social norms. The project investigates attributes like trend longevity, universality, shared cause, and sufficiency that can encourage individuals to adopt emerging social behaviors and beliefs, particularly in the context of addressing societal...