Project Grant R21MH143238
- Federal Grant Award Summary Brown University received a $195,465 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), effective September 4, 2025, through August 31, 2030. This K08 mentored research award supports the adaptation of the Fiscal Mapping Process—a strategic planning tool designed to help behavioral health agencies plan financial sustainment of evidence-based interventions (EBIs)—for use by...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of Texas at Austin $171,793 on September 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to develop and test an interactive mobile health chatbot (IPC Trainer) designed to improve the cost-effectiveness and quality of interpersonal counseling delivery by non-specialists treating common mental disorders in community settings in Mozambique. The project addresses two persistent challenges in task-shifted mental...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Butler Hospital $781,566 on September 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to develop RESTEPS, a suicide prevention intervention for youth with first-episode psychosis transitioning from acute care to outpatient treatment. The study addresses a critical gap: youth with first-episode psychosis face elevated suicide risk during care transitions, yet clinical trials of suicide-focused interventions routinely exclude...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Butler Hospital $165,987 on May 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to develop evidence-based suicide risk management protocols for research involving high-risk populations. The SAFER (Structuring Appropriate and Feasible Evaluations of Risk) project will create and evaluate protocols that balance participant safety with scientific validity in suicide risk research. The study pursues three aims: examining...
- Federal Project Grant Summary The National Institute of Mental Health awarded The Miriam Hospital a $705,322 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242, Mental Health Research Grants) on September 16, 2025, to develop and evaluate an artificial intelligence-based behavioral intervention designed to improve HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) jurisdictions. The primary deliverable is CHIA (Chatbot for HIV Prevention and Action), a...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Oregon Research Behavioral Intervention Strategies, Inc. (doing business as Influents Innovations) $314,362 under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) on September 1, 2026, to develop a digital evidence-based app for providers and teens addressing depression and subclinical depressive symptoms in youth. The project addresses the gap between the prevalence of depressive symptoms in adolescents and access to treatment. Cognitive...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Rhode Island Hospital $855,638 on August 20, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to conduct a hybrid Type I trial examining the effectiveness of ED_REACH, a family navigation intervention for youth discharged from emergency departments following suicide or non-suicidal self-injurious behavior evaluations. The trial will test ED_REACH (Resilience, Education, and Caregiver Help) with youth and their caregivers,...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded The Leland Stanford Junior University $722,773 under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) on July 15, 2026, to develop explainable artificial intelligence frameworks for predicting depression incidents in people with HIV. The research integrates multimodal data from 3,962 people with HIV across multiple longitudinal studies to elucidate bidirectional associations between HIV, depression, and immune dysregulation. The project...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded the University of Colorado $430,163 on March 15, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to validate and translate a smartphone-based intervention monitoring approach (SBIM) for adolescents with mood disorders. The project develops a low-burden monitoring strategy to improve adherence to inter-session behavioral and mood tracking in adolescent mental health interventions. Study participants (N=33, ages 13–19 years)...
- The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Duke University a $30.078 million cooperative agreement on September 10, 2025, to enhance, deploy, and validate the Duke Predictive Model of Adolescent Mental Health (DUKE-PMA), a neural network-based tool designed to identify youth at high risk for psychiatric illness in primary care settings. The project responds to RFA-MH-25-195 under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242). Duke will optimize the DUKE-PMA by incorporating...
The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Brown University $299,660 on September 1, 2026, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to develop and evaluate "Chat for Hope," an AI-powered mobile mental health application designed to screen for and address depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress symptoms among trauma-exposed adolescents in Ukraine. The project is a collaborative R21/R33 effort between Brown University and the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine. Chat for Hope will serve as a scalable digital screening and brief intervention tool to identify youth with mental health needs and link them to care in settings with limited access to specialty mental health services. The application incorporates transdiagnostic, mindfulness-based approaches and an AI-powered conversational agent to screen depression and anxiety symptoms. Evaluation findings will inform U.S. public health service delivery for adolescents affected by adversity in schools and low-resource settings. Performance occurs in Providence, Rhode Island. The project period runs from September 1, 2026, through August 31, 2028. Brown University, a major research institution, serves as the prime recipient. The university holds a diversified portfolio of federal research awards across 163 agencies, with substantial presence in the National Institutes of Health funding ecosystem.
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| Not listed | $34.3k | 8/21/26 | ||
| Not listed | $132.7k | 8/12/26 |