Project Grant R34MH142048
- 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...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a $691,620 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) effective September 22, 2025, through September 21, 2028, to develop an online decision support system designed to increase Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) awareness and demand among women in the Southeastern United States. The project addresses a significant public health gap, as women...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Boston University Medical Campus received a $245,250 Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), awarded March 1, 2026, with completion targeted for February 29, 2028. The project delivers privacy-preserving and scalable artificial intelligence (AI) tools for cognitive assessment through voice-based analysis. The deliverables include a refactored, modular, open-source...
- Summary The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded Boston University Medical Campus a $179,731 Project Grant on September 1, 2025, under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) for a five-year project period extending through August 31, 2030. This Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) funds the development and preliminary testing of a community health worker (CHW)-delivered pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) decision aid designed to increase PrEP initiation...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Pennsylvania received a $723,841 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, administered under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), with an award date of May 18, 2026, and completion date of February 28, 2031. The project, "Advancing Multimodal AI/ML to Enhance HIV Clinical Care," will develop artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models that integrate multiple data modalities...
- Federal Grant Award Summary George Washington University received a $731,738 Project Grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), awarded September 10, 2025, with completion targeted for September 9, 2028. The project, titled "A Pilot Feasibility Study to Integrate PrEP into Emergency Departments Using Decision Support Tools," develops and validates a patient-centered decision support tool (DST) to improve...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Massachusetts General Hospital received a $855,983 Project Grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), awarded March 13, 2026, with completion scheduled for December 31, 2030. The grant supports the evaluation and implementation of an Electronic Partner Notification (EPN) platform for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) across Massachusetts, with primary focus on Suffolk County, an...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Boston College received a $440,217 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307), with an award date of September 19, 2025, and completion date of June 30, 2027. The award supports the development and evaluation of the "Asking for Help" (A4H) mobile health application, a simulation-based mental health intervention designed to...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Mental Health awarded Columbia University's Health Sciences Division a $149,190 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242: Mental Health Research Grants) on August 9, 2026, with a completion date of February 29, 2028. This research initiative will develop and validate improved epidemiological methods to characterize Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) need and utilization in Eswatini, where adult HIV prevalence exceeds 31% and national incidence remains the...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute of Mental Health awarded a $790,560 Project Grant to Massachusetts General Hospital (The General Hospital Corporation) effective April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2030 under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242). This research initiative will develop advanced artificial intelligence models to predict differential antidepressant treatment responses by integrating electronic health records (EHR) data with genomic information. The...
Boston College received a $736,887 Project Grant from the National Institute of Mental Health under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), awarded on May 15, 2026, with a completion date of May 14, 2029. The award supports the development and piloting of an AI-Facilitated Partner Communication for PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) study, which will create a Virtual Practice Environment (VPE) utilizing large language models to simulate realistic conversations. This innovative tool will enable women to practice and develop HIV prevention communication strategies with male sexual partners in a supportive, risk-free setting, addressing a critical gap in existing PrEP interventions that have not adequately addressed partner-level communication barriers. The project delivers a scalable, technology-enabled solution to enhance HIV prevention implementation by empowering women with practical communication skills. The VPE prototype and associated pilot study data represent the primary deliverables, which will generate evidence regarding the feasibility and effectiveness of using artificial intelligence-driven conversational simulation for improving PrEP uptake among women. This research addresses a significant public health priority by removing interpersonal barriers to HIV prevention medication adoption through innovative implementation science methodology.Federal Grant Award Summary
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $736.9k | 5/25/26 |