The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a $455,481 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will enable ethical analysis, public engagement, and public justification in state-level pandemic responses in the United States from September 2021 through August 2023. As part of its mission to promote basic research in the social, behavioral and economic sciences,...
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 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 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), will provide $200,000 to The Johns Hopkins University to develop real-time hospitalization forecasting models for the United States. The models will leverage novel data sources like wastewater and genomic surveillance, alongside traditional epidemiological, mobility, demographic, socioeconomic, and behavioral data, to accurately assess...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) award, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program, provides $700,000 over 3 years to Northeastern University to develop mathematical models and computational algorithms that incorporate group-level behavioral responses into epidemic models. The research aims to better understand how social interactions, risk-mitigating norms, and the formation of pandemic "social bubbles" influence the trajectories of...
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 (NSF) awarded a $998,028 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania. The grant supports the development of the Data Access Platform for Human Mobility in Epidemiology (DAPHME), a large-scale data platform that collects and processes global positioning satellite (GPS) datasets to improve the...
The National Science Foundation awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $200,000 project grant under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) to develop and deliver real-time COVID-19 risk forecasting models and tools for the United States. The grant period runs from January 15, 2021 through December 31, 2021. Under this award, Johns Hopkins will leverage its expertise in epidemiological modeling and public health analytics to provide daily risk assessments of COVID-19...
This $1,000,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports the development of a Center for Pandemic Decision Science at the University of Texas at Austin from September 1, 2022 to February 29, 2024. The Center aims to advance the integration of complex systems science into pandemic decision-making through a series of multidisciplinary workshops, pilot studies, and educational/community outreach activities. Key goals include identifying...
This $150,607 National Science Foundation project grant will support a research community development project focused on collaborative research related to knowledge of HIV/AIDS. Led by the University of Washington with a completion date of August 2026, the project aims to bring together social scientific and humanistic scholars within the interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies. Key activities over the three-year period will include organizing three annual workshops around...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to The Johns Hopkins University. The grant supports planning activities for a future academic research center that will partner with community stakeholders to advance the understanding, design, and implementation of human-centered infrastructure to support "socially astute" epidemic management. Key objectives include developing a systems map and research agenda for the center, as well as an organizational management plan addressing its human capital needs, research trajectory, community collaboration, and translation of research into practical applications. The project aims to blend the social and biological sciences to promote epidemic control strategies that affected communities consider appropriate in terms of core values, feasibility, fairness, and health benefits. Planned sub-awards will support this community-centered, multidisciplinary approach to improving public health systems' ability to protect populations against the adverse social, economic, political, psychological, and physical impacts of emerging infectious disease outbreaks.