Cooperative Agreement U01CK000536

This $968,765 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) will develop a flexible modeling framework to simulate the impact of various testing-based infection control strategies for respiratory pathogens like SARS-CoV-2. The project aims to improve our ability to control existing respiratory diseases and enhance preparedness for future pandemics. Key deliverables include: Developing a...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) provides $599,783 to The University of Iowa to develop novel computational approaches to identify effective intervention strategies for mitigating healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The key products and services to be delivered include: Formulating a new class of online optimization problems and a suite of online resource allocation algorithms with theoretical...

This $534,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (CFDA 93.855 - Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research) supports research to develop wastewater surveillance systems for monitoring multidrug-resistant bacteria (MDRB). The key objectives are to: Establish standardized wastewater surveillance strategies to inform clinical infection control responses, using long-read metagenomics and novel bioinformatics to rapidly identify significant changes in...

This federal Project Grant award totaling $810,312.00 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) will fund research to investigate environmental reservoirs and transmission dynamics of multi-drug resistant Enterobacterales (MDR ENT) in the Chicago area. The key objectives are to: 1) Profile MDR ENT and mobile antibiotic resistance genes in Greater Chicago waterways to identify environmental...

This $294,244 Project Grant award, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, supports research to identify sepsis phenotypes associated with antibiotic-resistant pathogens. The project aims to leverage machine learning techniques, including large language models applied to clinical notes, to augment electronic health record (EHR) data and define...

This Project Grant award from the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (part of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, CFDA 93.226 Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes program) provides $999,998 to Northwestern University to conduct a mixed-methods study evaluating equity in antibiotic stewardship implementation and disparities in appropriate antibiotic prescribing. The study will use surveys, electronic health record data, and patient interviews to understand...

This $1,830,400 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the HIV Prevention Activities Health Department Based program (CFDA 93.940), supports the Prevention Policy Modeling Lab (PPML) led by Stanford University in partnership with multiple universities and public health departments. The PPML will develop disease models and advanced data analytics to enhance the evidence base for public health interventions and programs focused on HIV, viral...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $300,000 will fund research at the University of California, Los Angeles to develop scalable Bayesian dimension reduction methods for analyzing massive, dynamic network data related to global viral epidemics. Specifically, the award will support extending Bayesian multidimensional scaling to enable analysis of network data involving millions of observations. Theoretical and methodological work will develop a sparse coupling model and efficient...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $757,076 Project Grant under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey to develop and test the effectiveness of a storybook intervention focused on increasing young children's biological understanding of illness and contagion. The goal of this 3-year project is to create an informal learning experience that can teach preschool- and kindergarten-aged children about the causal mechanisms driving illness...

This $223,001 National Science Foundation project grant supports research to develop novel predictive models of epidemic spread dynamics and validate those models against COVID-19 data. The award is made under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support fundamental engineering research. Specifically, researchers at the University of Cincinnati will work collaboratively to: develop new predictive dynamic models based on partial differential equations; study the interaction of...