The Hastings Center Inc., a non-profit bioethics research institute, has received a $567,813 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to conduct research and public engagement on the ethical, legal, and social implications of using genome editing technologies to control or eradicate wild species. The project aims to examine philosophical and ethical questions around the potential extinction of species through...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities (CFDA 45.169) provides $249,994 to the Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to host the Advancing Digital Health Humanities (DHH) Institute from March 1, 2024 to February 28, 2026. The institute investigates how cross-disciplinary expertise and data analysis methods can advance understanding of the effects of illness and disease on patients, health...
The Johns Hopkins University received a $166,889 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) to conduct a virtual institute for 25 higher education faculty focused on applying the health humanities to dismantle structural injustice in healthcare. The funding supports the institute, which aims to help physician and nursing faculty explore how to use the health humanities to promote critical...
The National Humanities Center was awarded a $390,000 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support three nine-month long-term research fellowships from January 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The fellowship program is part of the Promotion of the Humanities Research program, which aims to advance knowledge and understanding of the humanities through collaborative research and scholarly editions and translations projects. As the grant description indicates, the fellowships...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $149,312 Project Grant to D'Youville University under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The funding will support the development of Humanities Interprofessional Education (HIPE) curricula and co-curricular programs for graduate health professions programs at D'Youville. The project aims to integrate humanities content into healthcare education in order to...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute on Aging under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866), is focused on addressing the unique challenges posed by dementia's progressive effects on personal values, self-reflection, and caregiving relationships. With total funding of $2,374,537, the award will support a 3-year research project conducted by the Regents of the University of California, San Francisco. The key activities under this grant include: 1) examining...
This $172,692 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162) will fund the recruitment of 21 interns at the Geneseo Center for Local and Municipal History. The interns will assist local historians in research and presentation of history content. They will also help organize three new initiatives and community events. The goal is to attract more students to...
This $195,480 Project Grant, awarded by the National Institute on Aging under CFDA Program 93.866 Aging Research, will fund the development and pilot testing of a culturally sensitive care management checklist to guide hospice transitions for Black, Latino, and Asian persons living with advanced dementia who receive home healthcare services. The project, titled "ENGAGE-D: Designing Culturally Sensitive Care Management for Hospice Transitions for Diverse Persons Living with Advanced...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $596,258 Project Grant (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to Weill Medical College of Cornell University to characterize and predict patient trajectories after live discharge from hospice among older adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The project aims to apply longitudinal clustering methods to Medicare claims and encounter data to identify patient subgroups with heterogeneous trajectories after hospice live discharge,...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $3,548,906 Project Grant under CFDA 93.866 (Aging Research) to The Johns Hopkins University to study health care access, quality, and outcomes among individuals with dementia in Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans (D-SNPs). The 3-year project (8/1/2024 - 4/30/2027) will use linked Medicare-Medicaid administrative data to compare the effectiveness of integrated D-SNPs versus non-integrated D-SNPs in terms of home and community-based services (HCBS)...