This National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science Project Grant, with a total funding amount of $307,969.00 and an award date of August 1, 2023, supports a research project examining the longer-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on precarious workers, such as gig workers, freelancers, and retail/fast food employees. The project, which is the fourth stage of a mixed-methods panel study, will utilize interviews and surveys with nearly 200 participants to understand how...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) in the amount of $1,633,455 will fund a research study entitled "Simulation Analyses to Optimize Workplace Social Network Interventions for Improving Health Behaviors in Midlife". The study will develop and utilize a stochastic actor-oriented model (SAOM) to simulate the impact of workplace health interventions leveraging social network dynamics on improving employee dietary...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research), supports research to analyze the roles of social class and power dynamics in driving health disparities over the life course. The $129,115 award to New York University School of Medicine will be used to quantify the cumulative effects of social class on self-rated health, mental illness, and mortality, including across intersecting gender and race lines. The research will also test the...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides funding to the University of South Florida to investigate the molecular mechanisms underlying neurological sequelae, known as Neuro-COVID, that can occur following SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection. The $3,659,973 award, spanning from September 2024 to May 2029, aims to characterize the age-dependent neuroinflammation and tau pathology accelerated by COVID-19 infection, as well as validate...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a 3-year, $2,561,480 Project Grant (CFDA 93.866) to Brigham & Women's Hospital to study the post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) and subsequent disease progression in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias (ADRD). The project aims to: 1) understand the epidemiology of PASC in cognitively impaired individuals; 2) examine the impacts of COVID-19 and PASC on disease...
This $366,181 National Science Foundation project grant supports research and data collection activities at Penn State University from July 2022 to June 2024 under the federal Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grantee will collect extensive data on U.S. state policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, analyze the adoption and diffusion of pandemic policies, and track online discussions by state officials. This includes gathering information on hundreds of...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded $363,998 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of California Irvine on July 15, 2021. The Project Grant supports the University of California Irvine in conducting a nationally representative survey titled "Responding to Turbulent Times: Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Aftermath in a Probability-Based US National Sample." Under the award, the...
This federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855). The $134,923 award supports an epidemiologist at the University of California, Berkeley to apply targeted machine learning and causal inference approaches to analyze the long-term sequelae of COVID-19 infection using data from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C). The key objectives are to: 1)...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $440,756 to the University of Arizona from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2025. The grant supports research examining the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), such as business closures and capacity limits, on SARS-CoV-2 transmission patterns. The researchers will analyze cell phone and census data from 12 urban areas to determine if NPIs affected...
This three-year, $4.68 million Project Grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, will support research into the collision of Alzheimer's disease and the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Funded under the Aging Research program, the grantee Case Western Reserve University will utilize a nationwide electronic health records database of over 80 million patients to examine COVID-19 risks and outcomes for those with Alzheimer's, including...