This $442,478 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant supports a multi-modal study examining the sociocultural, psychological, and demographic factors that influence vaccine decision-making, with a focus on underserved communities. The research team, led by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), will use interviews, surveys, focus groups, and vignette studies to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $375,000 to the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) to conduct a community-engaged study exploring the role of social media influencers in addressing vaccine information integrity and vaccine hesitancy. The study aims to understand how peer-to-peer messaging delivered by social media influencers of color can help address misconceptions and inaccurate...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) provides $2,065,719 to New York University to conduct a community-based behavioral intervention study to increase COVID-19 and influenza vaccination rates among African American/Black and Latino populations. The study aims to identify the most cost-effective combination of intervention components, including nurse-led shared decision...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $448,823 Project Grant under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the Trustees of Boston University. This two-year grant, running from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025, aims to assess the effectiveness of various health communication tactics employed by federal, state, and local agencies to encourage vaccine uptake. The project will build a database of vaccine messaging from public health agencies, evaluate the...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $182,797 Project Grant to the University of Colorado Boulder under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for the period of April 15, 2021 through December 31, 2021. The grant funds a research project titled "RAPID: The Rise and Propagation of Anti-Vax and Anti-Access Social Media Campaigns Targeted at Disadvantaged and Minority Populations During the COVID19 Pandemic." The University of Colorado Boulder will...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) totaling $2,082,128 will fund the development, implementation, and evaluation of a Motivational Interviewing (MI) training program for primary care providers (PCPs) to address COVID-19 and influenza vaccine hesitancy among vulnerable adult populations. The University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical) will lead this 5-year...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Program (CFDA 93.307) aims to increase respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine uptake among Latino older adults. The $2,058,402 award to the Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) will fund a randomized, two-arm effectiveness-implementation trial to assess the impact of a multi-component community-based...
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $393,750 Project Grant (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) to The Ohio State University. The grant will fund a study to quantify COVID-19 vaccine coverage and general vaccine hesitancy among adolescents in rural areas across the U.S. The project aims to identify multi-level factors associated with these two health outcomes, accounting...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $1,144,224 will fund the development of a scalable pipeline for identifying and addressing information deficits about vaccines through 2026. Under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, Duke University will generate contextualized question-answer pairs to surface ongoing discussions and highlight areas requiring attention. Emory University will collaborate to develop and evaluate contextualized interventions against vaccine...
This $836,895 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to develop and evaluate communication strategies to promote uptake of a future HIV vaccine among Black women ages 18-34 in the southern U.S. The 5-year study will be conducted by Baylor College of Medicine, a private non-profit university in Houston, Texas, using community-based participatory research methods. The key objectives are...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) is focused on understanding the influence of social media, social networks, and misinformation on vaccine acceptance among Black and Latinx individuals.
The $683,352 award to the University of California, Irvine will support a study to identify factors affecting vaccine acceptance in these populations, including the relationship between social media data and vaccine attitudes, the influence of social network factors, and the development of a visualization tool to map contextual data. The project will enroll 500 Black and Latinx participants who are followers of vaccine-hesitant social media influencers to collect data on their vaccine acceptance, misinformation exposure, and other relevant factors over a 12-month period. Key deliverables include an analysis of the relationship between social media, social networks, and vaccine acceptance, as well as the creation of a data visualization tool to inform future research and surveillance efforts. The award period runs from Sep 2024 through Apr 2025.
The project also includes a $99,000 sub-award to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston to oversee the network analysis components, including drafting network measures, supervising data collection, and conducting network analysis to assess the influence of social networks on vaccine hesitancy.