The University of Arizona was awarded a $361,188 Project Grant from the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) by the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director to develop and pilot a national model for responsibly reporting back research results to diverse rural and urban environmental justice communities. The project aims to create tailored report-back approaches that raise data and environmental health literacy, address social determinants of health, and support...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (CFDA 93.172 - Human Genome Research), will evaluate and validate strategies for reporting back environmental sampling results to rural Native American populations. The $100,000 award, effective July 1, 2024, aims to optimize report-back approaches for both short-term and long-term environmental exposures, with a focus on the role of real-time exposure information and the impact of the messenger, format, and...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) will fund a $300,000 study to develop best practices for reporting pesticide exposure results to family child care home (FCCH) directors in California's Central Valley. The key products and services to be delivered include: Collaborating with local stakeholders to establish a process for effectively communicating pesticide detection results to...
This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, aims to maintain and enrich the UC San Diego Human Milk Research Biorepository (HMB) cohort to support scientific diversity. The $388,159 award will enable the university to increase the diversity of the HMB cohort by recruiting 300 new participants from low/low-middle income households and those self-identifying as Black or...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program, provides $272,365 to develop and test a mobile application (app) to reduce toxic environmental exposures in Black communities. The goal is to create the MEET app, which will provide minority-focused education on endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), allow users to track their exposures through a...
This $599,416 project grant awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the CFDA 93.113 Environmental Health program aims to develop, test, and apply new statistical methods to address analytical challenges in environmental epidemiology research. The key products and services to be delivered include: Bayesian scalar-on-quantile-function regression models to estimate associations between population-level health outcomes and spatially-resolved exposure...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program provides $1,360,608 in funding to investigate the connections between historical structural racism, the neighborhood exposome, and child mental health outcomes. The award period runs from July 2024 to April 2025. The key research objectives are to: 1) examine how historical structural racism has influenced neighborhood trajectories...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director awarded a $336,744 Project Grant under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) for the "Training Health Equity Scholars in Innovation, Prevention, and Social Impact (UCB-THRIVES) Fellowship Program." The program aims to train the next generation of public health professionals, especially those from historically marginalized backgrounds, to develop and...
This $150,416 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) federal grant program supports research to develop novel statistical and deep learning tools to address challenges in understanding and mitigating health disparities related to the impacts of extreme heat and air pollution. The multi-disciplinary research project, led by the President and Fellows of Harvard College through the Harvard T.H. Chan...
This $121,057 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program supports a prospective study to investigate the associations between per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) mixtures and pregnancy outcomes, including spontaneous abortion, preterm birth, and small for gestational age births, among Black women. The study aims to describe the modifying role of perceived stress on these associations and...