Project Grant R21HD111927
- This $204,000 federal Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Beach Monitoring and Notification Program Implementation Grants (CFDA 66.472) funds the Minnesota Department of Health's (MDH) beach monitoring program for the upcoming swimming season. The grant will support MDH's efforts to monitor water quality at designated recreational beaches in Minnesota and promptly notify the public when bacteria levels exceed safe thresholds. Key activities include...
- 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...
- This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Beach Monitoring and Notification Program Implementation Grants (CFDA 66.472) provides $227,000.00 in funding to the Minnesota Department of Health's (MN DOH) Financial Management Division to support its beach monitoring and public notification program for the upcoming swimming season. The program will fund MN DOH's efforts to monitor water quality at designated recreational beaches in Minnesota, conduct laboratory...
- The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a $545,863.60 three-year Project Grant from the U.S. Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes federal grant program. The grant will fund research to develop machine learning and statistical models leveraging waterbody invasion histories and characteristic datasets in Minnesota. This will enable identification of factors influencing aquatic invasive species invasion risk and categorization of...
- This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), provides $318,956.00 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota for the period of September 1, 2025 to June 30, 2030. The overarching goal of this research is to improve the generalizability of genetics research to diverse populations, in order to better understand the genetic basis of complex diseases. The grant will support...
- This federal Project Grant award, valued at $116,338.00, was provided by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) under the Aging Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.866). The grant will fund research to analyze the impact of civil unrest on long-term healthcare utilization and mental healthcare utilization for older adults in communities affected by incidents of police violence in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Baltimore, Maryland, and Ferguson, Missouri. Specifically, the research will evaluate...
- The Regents of the University of Minnesota has been awarded a $350,000 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Rural Health and Safety Education (RHSE) Competitive Grants Program (CFDA 10.516). The grant, titled "Wiidookadadidaa Chinoojimayang (Healing Together)," will support the development and implementation of education and training programs focused on harm reduction, pro-recovery, and anti-stigma initiatives to...
- The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a $1,389,542 Project Grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Program) to evaluate population-based strategies for improving smoking cessation among rural residents. The project aims to determine the efficacy of providing free nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) starter kits, along with digital NRT education, to rural smokers. Additionally, the...
- 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...
- The National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute awarded $2,350,623 under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota on May 1, 2021 for a project concluding on April 30, 2022. The project aims to reduce childhood obesity through an individual randomized controlled trial testing combinations of ecological momentary intervention, home visiting, and video feedback delivered to 510 low-income, racially...
The University of Minnesota received a $417,496 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support (CFDA 93.310) program. The project, titled "The Effectiveness of Public Policy Interventions in Reducing Racial Disparities in Drowning," aims to characterize and evaluate the impact of various state and local policy interventions designed to reduce accidental drowning deaths and injuries, with a focus on understanding differential impacts across age, race, gender, and ethnicity. The research team will create a national database linking policy data with mortality statistics to analyze the effects of learn-to-swim initiatives, swimming pool regulations, and lifeguard certification and staffing requirements on drowning rates. The project will also explore how structural racism may have contributed to racial disparities in fatal drowning incidents. The award period runs from September 21, 2023 through August 31, 2025.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $417.5k | 9/20/23 |