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Grants

Our scientists are recipients of the following grants:

Current Grants

Agency: NIH

Title: A Multilevel Physical Activity Intervention for South Asian Women and Girls
Role:
PI - Kandula, (Co-I, Sarah Welch)
Project Period:
August 1, 2019 - July 31, 2024

 

Agency: ACL/HHS

Title: Age Friendly Chicago – Alzheimer’s Disease Program Initiative
Role:
PI - Maryann Mason, (Co-I, Sarah Welch)
Project Period:
September 1, 2019 - December 31, 2023

 

Agency: IGH

Title: Global Health Education – Key Initiatives Grant
Role:
PI - Doobay-Persaud, (Evaluator, Sarah Welch)
Project Period:
September 1, 2021 - August 31, 2023

 

Agency: NIH/Lurie Children's Hospital 

Title: Child and Mother Physical Activity Study
Role:
PI - Maryann Mason, Kwon (Co-I, Sarah Welch)
Project Period:
March 1, 2022 - December 31, 2026

 

Agency: Peterson Fund

Title: Telehealth as a Substitute for Non-urgent Emergency Department Care During the Pandemic: How Much Can We Really Save?
Role:
PI - Lindsay Allen
Project Period:
December 1, 2021 - June 30, 2023

 

Agency: NIH/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development Award

Title: Understanding the Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Childhood Exposure to Violence: Evidence from School Shootings
Role:
PI - Maya Rossin-Slater (Co-I's, Hannes Schwandt, Marika Cabral, Molly Schnell, Victor Carrion)
Project Period:
2021-2026

 

Agency: NCCDPHP 

Title: Effects of Medicaid Coverage and State-Level Delivery Approaches on Healthcare Quality, Outcomes, and Costs for Adults with Diabetes
Role:
PI - Ackermann, Black, and Kho (Co-I, Anna Chorniy)
Project Period:
2020-2025

 

Agency: NIDDK

Title: Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research
Role:
PI - Ackermann (Co-I, Anna Chorniy)
Project Period:
2021-2026

 

Agency: NIAID

Title: The Role of Social, Economic and Environmental Factors in Food Allergy Disparities
Role:
PI - Bilaver (Co-I, Anna Chorniy)
Project Period:
November 1, 2021 - October 31, 2023

 

Agency: MSS OMS Hub Seed Grant Program (Internal)

Title: The Role of Pharmacies in Prescription and Non-Prescription Opioid Epidemic
Role:
PI - Anna Chorniy
Project Period:
2022-2023

 

Agency: NHLBI

Title: Outcomes for Children with Asthma on Medicaid: Elucidating Key Determinants at the Policy, Plan, Neighborhood, and Person Levels to Address Disparities
Role:
PI - Anna Chorniy
Project Period:
July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2027

 

Sponsor: Council of State & Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE)/CDC

Title: CSTE Injury Data Science
Role:
PI - Maryann Mason
Project Period:
August 1, 2021 - June 30, 2023

 

Sponsor: Anonymous Donor Philanthropic Gift 

Title: Communicating to turn data into Action
Role:
PI - Maryann Mason
Project Period:
September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2023

 

Agency: CDC 

Title: State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting (SUDORS): SUDORS component of the Data to Action Initiative
Role:
PI - Maryann Mason
Project Period:
September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2023

 

Agency: IGH

Title: SARS-CoV-2 Transmission & Policy: Using active surveillance with bench science to inform what works, what doesn't, and what's promising
Role:
PI - Lori Post (PI, Alexander Lundberg)
Project Period: 
June 1, 2022 - May 21, 2024

 

Agency: CDC/APHA

Title: Imputation of missing data to reduce bias in NVDRS through ethical data science
Role: Co-I - Lori Post (PI: Zeng)
Project Period: March 31, 2023 - April 1, 2024

 

Agency: NIH/NIDA

Title: Leveraging state drug overdose data to build a comprehensive case level national dataset to inform prevention and mitigation strategies
Role: PI - Lori Post
Project Period: April 1, 2023 - March 31, 2025

 

Sponsor: Anonymous Donor

Title: Mass Shootings
Role: PI - Lori Post
Project Period: September 2022 - August 2023

 

Donor: David Paul

Title: Cost Benefit of Universal Health Care
Role: PI - Lori Post
Project Period: January 2023 - August 2023

 

Agency: CDC

Title: Advancing Surveillance of Violent Deaths Using the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)
Role: PI - Maryann Mason
Project Period: September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2027

 

Agency: AHRQ

Title: A Randomized Conrolled Trial of Geriatric Emergency Department Innovations
Role: PI - Dresden (Co-I, Lori Post)
Project Period: May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2024
To improve acute care for geriatric patients, Northwestern Memorial Hospital implemented the Geriatric Emergency Department Innovations (GEDI) program. GEDI is an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to ED care for geriatric patients; it applies evidence-based protocols to improve ED care and improve transitions from the ED to the community. 

 

Agency: VA Connecticut Healthcare System

Title: IPA for Tracking Guns among Veterans
Role: PI - Lori Post
Project Period: September 1, 2019 - August 31, 2025

 

Agency: Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, subcontract

Title: Northern Illinois Recovery Community Organization’s Recovery Support Services Program for Returning Citizens 
Role: PI - Maryann Mason (Co-I, Welch)
Project Period: September 1, 2019 - August 31, 2023

 

Agency: CDC

Title: SUDORS component of the Data to Action Initiative 
Role: PI - Maryann Mason
Project Period: September 1, 2019 - August 31, 2023
The goal of this project is to establish and maintain a usable anonymous database of drug overdose deaths that occur in Illinois.

 

Agency: Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, subcontract

Title: Northern Illinois Recovery Community Organization’s Recovery Support Services Program for Returning Citizens 
Role: PI - Maryann Mason
Project Period: September 1, 2019 - August 31, 2023

 

Past Grants

Agency: Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health

Title: Home Health Care Services for Children and Youth in Foster Care
Role:
PI - Seltzer/Anna Chorniy
Project Period: 
October 2021 - March 2023

 

Agency: National Institute of Health / National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences/NUCATS Institute

Role: PI - Lori Post
Project Period: April 14, 2020 - November 14, 2020
This proposed study will allow us to demonstrate our ability to merge SUDORS, NVDRS, US Census, Vital Stats, NIBRS across multiple states to inform opioid-involved deaths. We will disaggregate opioid involved age-specific death rates for race, ethnicity, sex, and gender over time by intent, geography, and substance.

 

Agency: U.S. Agency for International Development/Rutgers University

Title: Global Security Act: Policy Analysis and Measurement
Role: Site PI - Lori Post
Project Period: March 1, 2019 - February 27, 2021
This proposed study will evaluate policy based on their contribution toward the Global Food Security Act goals. We will look at the food security policy's contribution to these goals through a public and political will lens. This study will also measure water security at a household level.

 

Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture / University of Florida

Title: The Effect of the Opioid Crisis on the Farm Sector: Implications from the Rural Economy 
Role: Subaward PI - Lori Post
Project Period: July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2021
The overall objective of this project is to determine how the opioid epidemic is affecting the farm economy in the United States.

 

Agency: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs / VA Connecticut Healthcare System 

Title:  Tracking Guns Among Veterans
Role: PI - Lori Post
Project Period: September 1, 2019 - August 31, 2020
Dr. Post will provide data analysis for all aspects of the study. She will use VHA data to perform patient and facility level analysis, including using hierarchical modeling and examining clustering of comorbid diseases and conditions and their influence on patient outcome.

 

Agency: KSU SILLS/USAID

Title: Bridge Funding for Global SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance
Role: PI - Lori Post
Project Period: January 1, 2022 - June 30, 2022

 

Agency: Davee Innovations Research Endowment

Title: Global SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance: Policy, Persistence & Transmission
Role: PI - Lori Post
Project Period: November 1, 2020 - October 31, 2021

 

Agency: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Title: The Global Coronavirus Surveillance Project: Policy, Persistence, & Transmission
Role: PI - Lori Post
Project Period: October 1, 2020 - December 31, 2021

 

Agency: NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences/NUCATS Institute Pilot
Award Funding

Role: PI - Lori Post
Project Period: April 14, 2020 - November 14, 2020

 

Agency: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Title: The Effect of the Opioid Crisis on the Farm Sector: Implications from the Rural Economy
Role: MPI - Post and Moss (Co-I, Mason)
Project Period: July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2021
 

Agency: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Title: Global Security Act: Policy Analysis and Measurement
Role: PI - Lori Post
Project Period: March 1, 2019 - February 28, 2021

 

Agency: US Department of Health and Human Services, subcontract

Title: Age Friendly Chicago – Alzheimer’s Disease Program Initiative 
Role: PI - Maryann Mason (Welch, Co-I)
Project Period: September 1, 2019 - May 5, 2022

 

Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Title: National Violent Death Reporting System 
Role: PI - Maryann Mason
Project Period: September 1, 2019 - August 31, 2022
The goal of this project is to establish and maintain a usable anonymous database on violent deaths that occur in Illinois. 

 

Agency: Illinois Department of Public Health

Title: National Violent Death Reporting System FY20
Role: PI - Maryann Mason
Project Period: July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021
The goal of this project is to fund aspects of the IVDRS including data collection and dissemination. 

 

Sponsor: Anonymous Donor Philanthropic Gift

Title: Connecting data to communities to inform prevention
Role: PI - Maryann Mason
Project Period: September 1, 2019 - August 31, 2022
The goal of this project is to connect data to communities which are disproportionately burdened by violent death and opioid involved overdose fatalities to inform identification of local risk and protective factors to influence the development of intervention and prevention strategies and eventually evaluate these strategies. 

 

Agency: United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Title: The Effect of the Opioid Crisis on the Farm Sector: Implications from the Rural Economy
Role: Co-I Lori Post (Co-I, Moss)
Project Period: July 1, 2019-  June 30, 2021

 

Agency: Northwestern University, Pepper Center

Title: Chronic disease, health problems and opioid overdose fatality among older adults
Role:
PI - Lori Post
Project Period:
 September 1, 2019 - August 31, 2022

 

Agency: US Department of Health and Human Services, subcontract

Title: Age Friendly Chicago – Alzheimer’s Disease Program Initiative 
PI: Maryann Mason (Co-I, Post)
Project Period: September 1, 2019 - May 31, 2022