This $366,181 National Science Foundation project grant supports research and data collection activities at Penn State University from July 2022 to June 2024 under the federal Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grantee will collect extensive data on U.S. state policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, analyze the adoption and diffusion of pandemic policies, and track online discussions by state officials. This includes gathering information on hundreds of...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will provide $199,097 to fund a comparative research study investigating how participatory science can help counteract the crisis of trust in public health and medical expertise. The research will document the dynamics of disease advocacy, contestation, and cross-country collaboration, and develop an analytical framework to identify factors shaping the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $399,096 project grant to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant funds the ENDURE research project examining the impact of restrictive COVID-19 pandemic response policies on economic, political, and social inequalities across 12 countries. The project employs comparative analyses to study how varying degrees of lockdown and demobilization policies in...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) aims to incorporate group-level behavioral responses into epidemic models. The award of $700,000 will support research to develop mathematical models and computational algorithms that capture how group behaviors, such as the formation of social bubbles and changes in risk-mitigating norms, can impact pandemic trajectories. The project, led by Northeastern University,...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $440,756 to the University of Arizona from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2025. The grant supports research examining the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), such as business closures and capacity limits, on SARS-CoV-2 transmission patterns. The researchers will analyze cell phone and census data from 12 urban areas to determine if NPIs affected...
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...
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...
The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $138,000 project grant to Phoenix, Arizona to support research investigating the long-term impacts of pandemic disease. The grant was awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2023. The grant will fund research exploring the long-term societal and economic effects of pandemics. In line with the program's goals of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $214,019 to New Mexico State University (NMSU) to measure the consistency of public health messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic. The key objectives are to: Analyze COVID-19 tweets from federal and state public health agencies to assess the relationship between message consistency and the prevalence of discordant information on social media. Conduct a nationally...
This $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering will fund research collaboration between the United States and international partners on modeling human mobility patterns and contagion dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic. Awarded on August 1, 2021 to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton, the two-year grant aims to advance scientific discovery and international partnerships through...