The National Institutes of Health Office of the Director awarded a $4,324,098 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) to understand risks and resilience factors related to racism and firearm injury among Asian Americans. The University of Michigan will conduct focus groups and longitudinal surveys with 1,500 nationally representative Asian Americans from 2022-2025 to examine how structural racism and discrimination...
This Project Grant award, valued at $1,012,381.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant will advance the understanding of firearm possession among young adults, aged 15-24, living in urban high-crime communities. The study will use grounded theory methods to examine factors driving firearm possession across gender and incarceration status, and across multiple study sites. The project will be...
This Project Grant award, with ID R01MH137443, was provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242). The $794,155 award to the Regents of the University of Michigan aims to study the links between alcohol use, firearm access, and suicide risk. The project will utilize a multi-pronged approach, including a nationally representative survey, focus groups, and an ecological momentary assessment study. The goals are to better...
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 $245,532 to Henry Ford Health and Michigan State University Health Sciences to examine the association between maternal lifetime exposure to structural racism and inflammatory markers in neonatal dried blood samples. The research aims to create a cumulative lifetime exposure score for structural racism based on...
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...
This $4.5 million project grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, supports research under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866). The University of Michigan will examine racial inequities in neurological conditions like vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) and stroke. Leveraging the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke study cohort of over 30,000 adults, the research aims to determine...
The University of Michigan was awarded a $1,498,658 Cooperative Agreement from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310). The project, titled "Partners in Research: Building Capacity for Community-Driven Research to Advance Health Equity," aims to support community-led interventions to address structural factors contributing to health inequities in areas such as neighborhood and built environment, social...
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 provide $546,000 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to examine the relationships between state laws restricting reproductive health services and intimate partner violence (IPV) rates, related health outcomes, and IPV-related mortality. The 4-year study (9/18/2024 - 5/31/2028) will leverage data from Medicaid, the Pregnancy Risk...
The University of Michigan will serve as the Coordinating Center for the Community Firearm Injury Prevention Network under an $11.1 million cooperative agreement awarded by the National Institutes of Health Office of the Director. As the Coordinating Center, the University of Michigan's Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention will provide centralized administrative, operational, and logistical support to ten research projects evaluating community-based interventions for firearm 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...