This $200,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology supports research investigating the uptake, persistence, and impact of behavioral interventions on respiratory viruses. Funded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), the Pennsylvania State University will model the dynamics of COVID-19 and influenza transmission considering behavioral changes mandated by public health interventions as well as voluntary individual behaviors....
This $968,765 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) will develop a flexible modeling framework to simulate the impact of various testing-based infection control strategies for respiratory pathogens like SARS-CoV-2. The project aims to improve our ability to control existing respiratory diseases and enhance preparedness for future pandemics. Key deliverables include: Developing a...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to Trustees of Boston University. The grant will fund a 2-year research project to improve the estimation of epidemic quantities and assessment of intervention impacts for acute infectious diseases by incorporating realistic behavioral feedback into mechanistic models. The project involves recruiting individuals with acute respiratory infections...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) provides $1,344,200 to the University of Vermont to develop mathematical epidemiological models that better represent the complexities of human behavior and social processes in disease dynamics. The project will focus on understanding respiratory diseases like COVID-19 and the flu, aiming to improve the ability to predict and respond to infectious disease outbreaks. Key...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Virginia to develop data-driven, multimodal methods for behavior-based epidemiological modeling. The key objectives are to: Improve techniques for deriving meaningful insights from imperfect, real-world sensor data like mobile phones and search engine logs to capture complex human behaviors in real-time. Couple agent-based disease models...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $525,000 supports research on concealing infectious disease at the University of Michigan from April 2022 through March 2025. The project aims to better understand decisions to conceal infectious illness and the psychological consequences of doing so. Specifically, the award will fund a series of descriptive studies and experiments to examine factors associated with concealing sickness from friends, coworkers, and strangers depending on...
This $201,299 National Science Foundation project grant supports research to develop novel predictive models of epidemic spread dynamics and validate those models using COVID-19 data. The funding will be used to conduct fundamental research advancing the scientific understanding of how uncertainties in human behavior and pathogen characteristics influence spatial and temporal stochastic epidemic dynamics. Specific aims of the research include developing new predictive dynamic models based on...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $200,000.00, awarded on November 15, 2022 with a completion date of October 31, 2026, will fund research at Columbia University to develop behavior-driven mathematical models and forecasting systems for respiratory disease transmission in urban settings. Funded jointly by NSF's Division of Mathematical Sciences and Division of Social and Economic Sciences under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), this research aims to incorporate...
This National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships Project Grant totaling $265,999 will support Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden in developing a rapid and reliable point-of-care screening for infectious diseases such as COVID-19. Specifically, the university will demonstrate a mass screening method to rapidly detect viruses to identify early infected individuals for quarantine. This work will enable rapid and reliable point-of-care detection with...
This $559,342 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), supports a collaborative research project to promote meaningful integration of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and medicine (STEMM) learning across informal and formal education settings. The research team, led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc., will employ an ethnographic design to investigate how incorporating STEMM lessons in...