The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $447,164 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to The Mclean Hospital Corporation in Belmont, Massachusetts to develop a new personalized quality of life measurement approach for mental health conditions. The project aims to create a measurement system that is both nomothetically comparable across diseases and idiographically tailored to mental health symptoms. This innovative approach leverages unsupervised machine...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $1,323,471 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to a team of researchers from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), the RAND Corporation, and the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of this 4-year project, starting in September 2024, is to develop person-centered outcome measures for assessing the quality of goal-directed care for individuals with serious mental illnesses such as...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $877,297 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to The Rand Corporation to conduct a multi-year study titled "Mapping Mental Health Emergency Response Systems: Assessing Capacity, Equity, and Impact Across the U.S." The project aims to: 1) quantify the evolving capacity of each state's mental health emergency response system (MHERS), 2) examine inequities in MHERS resource availability by community...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $1,248,897 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to the University of California, Santa Barbara to design a gender-affirming training intervention for lay health workers (LHWs) to promote mental health care access for racially diverse transgender youth. The two-year project (9/1/2024 - 8/31/2026) will use human-centered design methods to (1) co-design the LHW training intervention with community partners, and (2)...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $1 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on Sep 16, 2024. The grant, titled "RCT of a Measurement Feedback App to Improve Data Quality, Supervision & Outcomes in Behavioral Health", will fund the development and evaluation of a mobile application called "FOOTSTEPS" to improve data collection and quality in community behavioral health settings....
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program to The Washington University in the amount of $1,325,208 on August 9, 2024. The grant will fund a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) to assess different sequential combinations of strategies to return individuals with HIV treatment lapses to care and reengage them long-term in Zambia. The key products/services to be delivered include: Comparing...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), is intended to develop and pilot a mental health services access measurement system for integrated mental health care systems in Peru. The $542,314 award, spanning September 2024 to July 2027, will fund a three-part project. First, a community-based participatory research needs assessment will be conducted to inform the adaptation of existing care access...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $904,100 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to the Lovelace Biomedical Research Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The grant, awarded on May 5, 2025, will fund a longitudinal study to develop algorithms that predict mental health functioning and related outcomes, such as recidivism and substance use relapse, in incarcerated women. The research will utilize multimodal data, including psychosocial,...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $237,765 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct a longitudinal study on the impact of caregiver mental health on outcomes for children recovering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in Burkina Faso. The study aims to measure caregiver depression and anxiety over the course of SAM treatment and up to 1 year following,...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), awarded a $626,753 Project Grant to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to conduct a pilot study on risk and protective factors for common mental disorders among migrant and asylum-seeking populations in Mexico. The 3-year project aims to 1) identify risk and protective factors for common mental disorders, 2) estimate the short-term effects of economic...