The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) was awarded a $169,811 Project Grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855). The award period runs from July 25, 2024 to June 30, 2029.
The grant supports UNC-CH's research to develop and apply innovative statistical methods for estimating the overall and spillover effects of infectious disease prevention interventions, accounting for interference and improving generalizability to target populations. The research aims to advance the methodological understanding at the intersection of causal inference, epidemiology, and infectious diseases. The proposed work will consider various study designs, including cluster-randomized trials and probability-based samples, and leverage flexible machine learning techniques to derive nonparametric estimators. The research is motivated by and will be applied to data from infectious disease studies in Uganda, Kenya, and Canada.
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