This federal 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), aims to improve the global measurement of intimate partner violence (IPV). The $156,486 award, granted on January 1, 2025, will support a research study with the following key objectives: Assess the performance of a quantitative method to control for measurement error and underreporting of IPV data....
This $468,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) will fund a research project titled "Structural Racism and Youth Firearm Violence: Socioecological Mechanisms and Resilience" at the University of Michigan. The project will examine the relationship between structural racism and youth firearm violence, as well as identify factors that promote resilience in impacted communities. The research will be...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports the development and evaluation of a culturally grounded, empowerment self-defense program for American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) women who have experienced sexual violence. The $709,802 award, spanning from June 2025 to June 2028, will be used by the Regents of the University of Michigan to: 1) culturally adapt an existing empowerment self-defense...
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 $169,726 to the University of Arizona to conduct research on intimate partner violence (IPV) screening and support for pregnant and postpartum women. The key objectives are to: 1) Identify barriers and preferences for IPV screening and response as perceived by healthcare providers, and 2) Obtain an in-depth...
This Project Grant award of $838,966 from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) under the CFDA 16.560 National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program supports the development and pilot testing of a community-based, peer advocacy intervention for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) whose partners are enrolled in relationship violence intervention programs (RVIPs). The goal is to improve mental health, increase safety behaviors, and empower IPV...
This Project Grant award for $426,796.00 was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The grant aims to develop a comprehensive research education program to equip maternal health researchers with the skills to effectively measure and address intimate partner violence (IPV) in their research. The program will include a...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,588,405.00 was provided by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, under the Injury Prevention and Control Research and State and Community Based Programs (CFDA 93.136). The funding supports research, education, training, and direct services aimed at preventing various forms of injuries and violence, including sexual violence, child abuse, youth violence, intimate partner violence,...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded the University of Michigan $227,104 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) for the project "Domestic Violence during COVID-19" from August 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. This Project Grant funding will support research examining the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence, advancing the program's goals of strengthening basic research in the...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $794,155 over a 4-year period beginning August 1, 2024 to study the links between alcohol use, firearm access, and suicide risk. The key objectives are to: 1) conduct a nationwide survey on suicide risk, alcohol use, and firearms; 2) perform qualitative research including focus groups to identify themes and pathways related to firearm...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), under the Nursing Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.361), provides $889,744 to the University of Washington to support the implementation of intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention strategies by public health nurses in Alaska. The project aims to: (1) describe the IPV prevention practices delivered by public health nurses across the state, (2) identify barriers and facilitators to effective implementation...