Project Grant NU58DP004963

This $347,527.92 Project Grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the Department of Health and Human Services will fund the development of a clinical decision support tool to maximize outcomes for obesity treatment in primary care. The grant recipient, Dr. Hallie Espe-Huynh of The Miriam Hospital, will work with stakeholders to design a machine learning model within a prototype clinical decision support system. The tool aims to predict early risk of nonresponse to online...

This Project Grant award of $158,500 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support research to illuminate how a parent's adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and neighborhood environment influence their child's obesity risk. The study, led by Temple University, will create a Neighborhood ACEs Index (NAI) to examine how neighborhood characteristics associated with ACEs...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), will support a pilot study to optimize a school-based obesity prevention intervention for adolescent girls in an urban informal settlement in Kenya. The $161,871 award, effective August 1, 2025, will fund a community-engaged process to refine the intervention components and conduct a pilot...

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) awarded a $303,000 Project Grant (CFDA 93.847 - Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research) to Drexel University to pilot a patient navigator program. The program aims to facilitate increased uptake and persistence with evidence-based weight loss interventions among adults with overweight or obesity. Over the 3-year award period, the study will assess the feasibility, acceptability, and initial...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $744,721 project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to the University of California, San Francisco on December 15, 2022 with a completion date of November 30, 2023. The grant funds the Network of User-Engaged Researchers Building Interdisciplinary Scientific Infrastructures for Healthy Food (NOURISH) project. NOURISH aims to develop technical solutions to transform "food swamps" saturated with...

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) awarded a $275,660 project grant (CFDA 93.837 - Cardiovascular Diseases Research) to Urban Design 4 Health Inc. to develop an automated spatial tool called the Pedestrian Public Health Assessment Model (PED-PHAM). The PED-PHAM uses artificial intelligence and computer vision techniques to detect and quantify pedestrian environment features, such as sidewalks, crosswalks, and lighting, from digital imagery. These features will be integrated...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, provides $483,000 to the University of California, Davis to investigate how chronic exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) may exacerbate the development of metabolic disorders like obesity and diabetes. The research aims to determine if TRAP exposure activates neurogenic inflammation in peripheral organs, leading to a...

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $417,878 Project Grant (CFDA 93.113 - Environmental Health) to Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to conduct a comprehensive environmental and public health monitoring study in disadvantaged communities in Sampson and Duplin Counties, North Carolina. The study aims to establish a baseline assessment of environmental exposures and health outcomes prior to the expansion of swine waste-to-energy operations in the...

This $117,750 Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) will fund a study investigating the prospective associations between neighborhood environment features and physical activity, as well as weight status, across different age groups. The study will leverage data from five existing NIH-funded studies to efficiently examine long-term impacts over 5-15 year periods. Key objectives include...

This $285,504 EAGER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports a two-year research project to measure the impact of university innovation facilities on real estate markets and R&D space supply and demand across the top 100 U.S. metropolitan areas. The project aims to collect and analyze data on four key outcome variables: R&D space demand, R&D space supply, business establishment clustering, and...