The National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 Biological Sciences) awarded a $1,487,500 Cooperative Agreement to the University of California, Davis to establish the Center for Insights into the Pre-Emergence Phase of Pandemics (CI3P). The center will conduct transdisciplinary research and develop innovative technology to detect early signals of pandemic threats in natural reservoirs and ecosystems. Key activities include: Developing sensor systems to monitor wildlife health and pathogen...
The Public Policy Institute of California was awarded a $173,584 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings under the federal STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076). The grant will fund the RAPID: A Researcher-Practitioner-Partnership to Assess the Impact of COVID-19 Recession on NGSS Implementation project from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2022. The project aims to assess how the economic downturn resulting from the COVID-19...
The University of California, San Diego was awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems to develop a collective intelligence cyberinfrastructure prototype for pandemic prediction, prevention and response under the Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention (PIPP) Phase I program. The award period is from August 1, 2022 to January 31, 2024. The grant will support testing a new digital platform to merge currently...
The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded $200,151 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of California, Los Angeles for the period of September 1, 2022 through February 29, 2024. The award will support development of a prototype pandemic early warning system powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning, and open-source technologies. The system will monitor biological,...
The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $138,000 project grant to Phoenix, Arizona to support research investigating the long-term impacts of pandemic disease. The grant was awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2023. The grant will fund research exploring the long-term societal and economic effects of pandemics. In line with the program's goals of...
The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded $363,998 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of California Irvine on July 15, 2021. The Project Grant supports the University of California Irvine in conducting a nationally representative survey titled "Responding to Turbulent Times: Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Aftermath in a Probability-Based US National Sample." Under the award, the...
This Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Office of the Director provided $1,549,055 under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) to the University of California, Los Angeles from June 30, 2021 to June 29, 2022. The grant funded research on the impact of COVID-19 testing and mitigation strategies on an equitable return to school in the second largest US school district, Los Angeles Unified. Under the award, UCLA will apply its...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $336,050 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California, Riverside under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to study forced displacement and community resilience related to housing insecurity exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic in inland Southern California. The three-year award beginning July 1, 2022 will fund research into the demographic and socioeconomic profiles of renters experiencing eviction, the relocation processes and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science Project Grant, titled "Coping with Compounding Risk and Uncertainty: A Longitudinal Study of Cascading Collective Stress in a Probability-Based-US Sample," is being awarded to the University of California Irvine (UC Irvine) for $1,018,693.00. The project commenced on June 15, 2023 and will run until May 31, 2026. The primary objectives of this study are to: (1) examine how exposure to compounding...
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) was awarded a $10,646,468 Cooperative Agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Public Health Emergency Response: Cooperative Agreement for Emergency Response (CFDA 93.354) program. The award, titled "PREVENT: PREPAREDNESS THROUGH RESPIRATORY VIRUS EPIDEMIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT", is for the period of August 1, 2024 through July 31, 2029. The key products and services to be delivered under this...