The National Eye Institute (NEI) awarded a $1,508,578 Project Grant (CFDA 93.867 - Vision Research) to New York University (NYU) School of Medicine to address healthcare accessibility for patients with blindness and low vision. The project, titled "ADDRESSING ABLEISM THROUGH ACCOMMODATIONS FOR BLINDNESS AND LOW VISION TO ACHIEVE EQUITY (AAABLE) IN HEALTHCARE", aims to systematically characterize the required support and accommodations for this population, and then assess the...
This $376,226 Project Grant award 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 fund research to quantify the experiences and adverse impacts of medical ableism among people with disabilities. The primary objectives are to: 1) develop survey modules to measure medical ableism and its effects, 2) characterize experiences of medical ableism, and 3) identify adverse care and...
The National Eye Institute (NEI) awarded a $408,368 Project Grant (CFDA 93.867 - Vision Research) to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to (1) adapt an evidence-based physical activity behavior change intervention tailored to the unique challenges of adults living with vision impairment, and (2) establish the feasibility, patient satisfaction, and preliminary efficacy of the adapted intervention for increasing physical activity intensity and duration, as well as other health outcomes,...
This Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (NEI), under the Vision Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.867), is providing $2,229,504 to Baylor University to develop tools and technologies that make experimental biochemistry accessible to individuals with blindness and low vision. The key products and services being delivered through this 5-year project include: Designing and 3D printing assistive devices and robotic equipment to enable researchers with blindness to autonomously...
The National Eye Institute (NEI) awarded a $1,501,464 Project Grant (CFDA 93.867 - Vision Research) to The Johns Hopkins University to address barriers that people who are blind or have low vision face in accessing healthcare information and appointment-making processes. The project, titled "Removing Barriers to Healthcare for People with Vision Impairment (The RAMP Program)," aims to: Refine a "RAMP Score" to better capture the barriers this population faces in making...
This Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (NEI), under the Vision Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.867), will provide $277,197 over 5 years to investigate the social determinants of vision health in children. The central hypothesis is that household- and neighborhood-level social factors influence the receipt of vision screening, access to eye specialty care, and treatment success for amblyopia - the leading cause of vision loss in children. The research will leverage large...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $681,469 to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct a mixed-methods study investigating the relationships between provider bias, experiences of ableism, and health outcomes for people with mobility disabilities. The project aims to prospectively assess the explicit and implicit disability biases of 40 rehabilitation...
The National Eye Institute (NEI) awarded a $624,379 federal Project Grant (CFDA 93.867 - Vision Research) to The Johns Hopkins University to develop an objective tool for evaluating the visual accessibility of indoor spaces. The project aims to create a smartphone app that can 1) visualize an environment for a specified level of vision impairment, 2) identify hazardous features, and 3) generate visibility metrics to quantify object visibility. The tool will be developed and validated through...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (NEI), under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867), will fund a research project to (1) develop a screening algorithm for early detection of cerebral visual impairment (CVI) in infants, and (2) establish neurodevelopmental profiles to inform interventions for children with CVI. The $638,837 award, valid from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2030, will be carried out by the Childrens Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (NEI) under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) is supporting the development of equitable deep learning models for automated glaucoma screening. The $754,779 award, with a performance period from Sep 30, 2024 to Jul 31, 2029, aims to assess the performance equity of existing deep learning models, develop identity-conditioned generative models to improve data equality, and create fair identity normalization techniques to equalize...
The National Eye Institute (NEI) awarded a $2,367,661 Project Grant (CFDA 93.867 - Vision Research) to Texas Tech University System to conduct research on how ableism impacts the physical and mental health of children who are blind or visually impaired (CBVI). The project aims to recruit a large, diverse sample of 500 CBVI children and their caregivers across the U.S. to obtain detailed measures of ableism (including interpersonal discrimination, victimization, and rejection) and assess their relationships to physical and mental health outcomes. The research will use advanced analytics to elucidate the role of ableism in driving health inequities for CBVI, beyond other social determinants of health. This work will inform the development of interventions for caregivers, educators, and healthcare providers to reduce ableist beliefs and actions, with the goal of improving health outcomes for this population. Yale University will serve as a sub-awardee, receiving $221,645 to support this research project.