Dises: integrating socio-economic and environmental interventions to improve well-being in vulnerable communities

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2307944
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Awarding agency
Obligated
$1,597,264

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Assistance listing
47.075 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
Completion date 82% complete
Place of performance
Ithaca, NY, USA

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Abstract
Schistosomiasis, the second most socioeconomically burdensome neglected tropical disease globally, is caused by snail-transmitted flatworms that penetrate human skin. IT originates in the aquatic ecology of rural communities, defies control efforts, reinforces poverty, and damages children?s health and education advancement because even when provided drugs to clear the infections, humans quickly get RE-infected when they return to snail-infested waterbodies. A newly identified solution synergistically leverages feedback in socio-environmental systems through targeted aquatic vegetation harvest at community water access points where most infections occur. The next challenge is how to scale and sustain that solution. If successful, the low-cost, information-based design this project tests can provide a model for community-based solutions to similar poverty-disease traps worldwide. The project advances stem education for students, creates a multi-institution seminar course and develops a public seminar series to improve the public?s understanding of science and the scientific method. This project implements a randomized controlled trial and field experiments with human subjects, coupled with longitudinal collection of household survey, ecological and human health data. The objective is to evaluate whether education on the public health and/or private economic benefits of vegetation removal can effectively scale and sustain ecologically non-disruptive aquatic vegetation harvest and thereby suppress schistosomiasis infection and boost agricultural productivity and well-being in rural communities. The project also monitors whether these interventions inadvertently induce unintended ecological or social spillover effects and whether the benefits of vegetation removal are distributed towards the relatively poor or better-off households. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

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Original award $1,597,264

Subawards

Subrecipient Amount Awarded
University Of Notre Dame DU Lac The Rohr Laboratory, under the direction of Dr. Jason Rohr, will be responsible for quantifying snails, vegetation, aquatic biodiversity, and water quality… $123,270
Centre De Recherche Pour LE Developpement Economique Et Social CRDES will work closely with the Cornell team in designing and planning the community and household survey data collection, focus group discussion, and public… $16,144
Universitã? Cheikh Anta Diop De Dakar UCAD will coordinate with EPLS to ensure the same sampling and testing protocols are implemented. UCAD will provide the laboratory space and equipment, field… $79,905
Station D'innovation Aquacole SARL SIA will lead the monitoring of aquatic vegetation, water quality, access and use, and snail abundance in 2 water points of 24 villages, twice a year during… $118,307
Centre De Recherche Pour LE Developpement Economique Et Social CRDES will work closely with the Cornell team in designing and planning the community and household survey data collection, focus group discussion, and public… $163,031
University Of Notre Dame DU Lac The Rohr Laboratory, under the direction of Dr. Jason Rohr, will be responsible for quantifying snails, vegetation, aquatic biodiversity, and water quality… $102,886
New York Sun Works Inc. NYSW will act as the youth development partner in New York. Co-PD Zamora will co-lead the market study, non-formal education module content and activity… $59,783
Station D'innovation Aquacole SARL SIA will lead the monitoring of aquatic vegetation, water quality, access and use, and snail abundance in 2 water points of 24 villages, twice a year during… $106,431
Universitã? Cheikh Anta Diop De Dakar UCAD will coordinate with EPLS to ensure the same sampling and testing protocols are implemented. UCAD will provide the laboratory space and equipment, field… $79,905
Universitã? Cheikh Anta Diop De Dakar $0
Centre De Recherche Pour LE Developpement Economique Et Social CRDES will work closely with the Cornell team in designing and planning the community and household survey data collection, focus group discussion, and public… $110,753
Centre De Recherche Pour LE Developpement Economique Et Social $0
Centre De Recherche Pour LE Developpement Economique Et Social $39,142
Universitã? Cheikh Anta Diop De Dakar UCAD will coordinate with EPLS to ensure the same sampling and testing protocols are implemented. UCAD will provide the laboratory space and equipment, field… $0
Universitã? Cheikh Anta Diop De Dakar $90,190
University Of Notre Dame DU Lac The Rohr Laboratory, under the direction of Dr. Jason Rohr, will be responsible for quantifying snails, vegetation, aquatic biodiversity, and water quality… $0
Centre De Recherche Pour LE Developpement Economique Et Social CRDES will work closely with the Cornell team in designing and planning the community and household survey data collection, focus group discussion, and public… $3,872
Centre De Recherche Pour LE Developpement Economique Et Social $0
Station D'innovation Aquacole SARL SIA will lead the monitoring of aquatic vegetation, water quality, access and use, and snail abundance in 2 water points of 24 villages, twice a year during… $0
University Of Notre Dame DU Lac The Rohr Laboratory, under the direction of Dr. Jason Rohr, will be responsible for quantifying snails, vegetation, aquatic biodiversity, and water quality… $67,700
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Quick answers

Who received award 2307944?

2307944 was awarded to Cornell University by Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (National Science Foundation) on July 1, 2023.

How much is award 2307944 worth?

$1,597,264 has been obligated on 2307944.

Which agency awarded 2307944?

Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (National Science Foundation) awarded 2307944, with funding from National Science Foundation.

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