Project Grant HT94252410795

This $2.9 million Defense Health Agency project grant funds research on suicide prevention among military personnel and veterans. The grant supports a multi-site randomized clinical trial through September 2026 to evaluate the efficacy of Written Exposure Therapy for Suicide Prevention compared to treatment as usual. Researchers at Boston University and partner institutions University of Colorado Denver and University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio aim to reduce suicidal thoughts and...

The University of Rochester was awarded a $2,482,055 Project Grant from the Department of the Army Medical Command under the Military Medical Research and Development (CFDA 12.420) program. The grant, titled "Reducing Crises and Suicide within the Idaho Army National Guard: Enhancement of the First-Line Leader Program," aims to transform healthcare for military service members by supporting advanced biomedical research focused on suicide prevention and crisis intervention. The grant...

The Department of the Army Medical Command awarded Arizona State University a $722,815 Project Grant under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) to conduct research from September 2022 through September 2026 aimed at preventing suicide among survivors of military sexual violence. The grant funding will support ASU's efforts to identify critical risk periods and factors that attenuate and exacerbate suicide risk for this population in order to inform prevention...

This federal Project Grant award from the Department of the Army Medical Command under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) provides $848,248 to the Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to adapt behavioral activation approaches to improve mental health outcomes and reduce suicide risk during the military transition. The project will be conducted over a 3-year period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. RTI International, a prominent non-profit...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $661,237 over 5 years to The Ohio State University to conduct research on optimizing brief coping skills interventions for suicide prevention. The study aims to intensively characterize the contexts in which patients at high risk for suicide are most likely to use and benefit from their safety planning interventions, leveraging technology and...

The Defense Health Agency awarded The Ohio State University a $8,375,496 cooperative agreement under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) from September 30, 2022 to September 29, 2026. This award will fund the Augmenting Suicide Prevention Interventions for Service Members project, which consists of five synergistic studies that aim to identify the strategies, delivery methods, providers, and circumstances most effective for preventing suicidality among military...

The Denver Research Institute will receive $768,919 under a four-year Project Grant award from the Department of the Army Medical Command. The grant will fund research from September 2022 through September 2026 under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420). The research aims to prevent suicide among survivors of military sexual violence by identifying critical risk periods and factors that attenuate or exacerbate suicide risk. The Military Medical Research and...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $854,029 to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), to develop and evaluate a multimodal adaptive intervention for reducing suicide risk among individuals discharged from inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. The project aims to compare the effectiveness of a just-in-time adaptive intervention...

This $3,823,679 Project Grant award from the Defense Health Agency under the Military Medical Research and Development program (CFDA 12.420) supports the development and evaluation of a web-based training program for brief cognitive behavioral therapy (BCBT) for suicide prevention. The prime awardee, The Ohio State University, is collaborating with subrecipients The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, the Medical University of South Carolina, and the University of Memphis...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $614,921 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to the University of Botswana to adapt and implement the Safety Planning Intervention (SPI) for suicide prevention among youth in Botswana. Over the 3-year period from September 2025 to September 2028, the project will: Culturally adapt the SPI through linguistic and content modifications, Task-shift the delivery of SPI to guidance and counselling...