This $180,473 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports collaborative research on the economics of wait times in healthcare delivery. The researchers will measure waiting times for over a dozen medical procedures and analyze the impact of longer wait times on patient outcomes and healthcare spending. They will leverage insurance claims data and novel machine learning techniques to detect the...
This $238,884 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) supports research to assess the efficacy of digital health technologies in low-resource settings. The 2-year project, running from April 2025 to March 2027, examines how digital health services impact treatment experiences, communication strategies, and perceptions of effectiveness for both patients and providers in a rural, low-resourced area....
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under CFDA program 47.041 (Engineering) provides $319,727 in funding to Southern Methodist University (SMU) from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2028. The award supports research to develop quantitative methods for designing and controlling service systems, such as healthcare, customer contact centers, and online platforms, that account for the impacts of human-related phenomena like customer patience and delay. The research aims to address...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the National Bureau Of Economic Research Inc. doing business as Nber, for the period of April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to support basic research and education in these fields as well as monitor science investments. Under this award, Nber will conduct research on the mortality effects of health insurance networks...
This $122,717 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will fund a research project investigating the effects of the Civil Rights Movement on the representation of African Americans in medical education and medical research. The researchers will build a novel dataset combining historical records on medical school admissions, physician directories, scientific publications, population health outcomes, and...
This $174,371 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Chapman University towards developing a personalized framework for real-time patient length of stay modeling and prediction. The framework aims to advance data fusion and time-to-event modeling techniques to enable proactive, data-driven hospital discharge scheduling. By integrating advanced tensor fusion and statistical learning approaches, the framework seeks to facilitate personalized length of stay predictions in...
This $666,667 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program aims to develop innovative mathematical algorithms to enable safe automated patient monitoring, treatment guidance, and reconciliation of potentially conflicting medical treatments. The research will advance control theory, inference, and optimization to create new knowledge, leading to transformative approaches for coordinating complex interacting...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $282,000 project grant to the National Bureau Of Economic Research Inc. doing business as Nber for the period of February 15, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to support basic research and education in these fields as well as monitor science investments. Under this award, Nber will conduct research on Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security...
This Project Grant award, totaling $701,218, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). The award will fund a research project that aims to study the interactions among major government transfer programs, including SNAP, WIC, Medicaid, and CHIP. The researchers will investigate two key aspects: how to best administer these programs to improve targeting, and the...
This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of algorithms for real-time dynamic risk identification and monitoring of streaming data, particularly in the domains of electronic medical records, mobile health, and supply chain. The key objectives are to create a unified framework for dynamic risk detection that can be incorporated into...