2019 Faculty Grants

  • Elaine Abrams, MD, ICAP, will receive $26,000,000 over five years from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for “Targeted Programmatic Support Across Countries under the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.”
  • Charles Branas, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $4,158,373 over five years from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for “The Columbia Center for Injury Science and Prevention (CCISP).”
  • Qixuan Chen, PhD, Biostatistics, will receive $417,182 over two years from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for “Bayesian Exposure-Response Analysis for Immunoassays Data with Measurement Errors.”
  • Andrea Howard, MD, ICAP, will receive $3,500,004 over five years from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for “Technical Assistance to Central Asian National HIV Programs to Achieve and Sustain HIV Epidemic Control under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)” and $1,849,121 over five years from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for “Global HIV Implementation Science Research Training Grant Renewal.”
  • W. Ian Lipkin, MD, Epidemiology, will receive $809,995 over three years from the Department of Defense for “Metabolomics in Gulf War Illness: A Systems Biology Approach to Dissecting Mechanisms of Disease.”
  • Susan Michaels-Strasser, PhD, ICAP, will receive $15,000,000 over five years from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for “Strengthening the Health System Capacity to Implement HIV Prevention Care and Treatment Services in South Africa Under PEPFAR.”
  • Priya Palta, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $696,313 over three years from the National Institute on Aging for “Physical Activity and Preservation of Cognitive Function.”
  • Virginia Rauh, ScD, Population & Family Health, will receive $1,499,570 over three years from the Department of the Army for “Genetic and Environmental Influences on the Pathogenesis of Parkinson’s Disease: Young Adult Brain and Behavioral Risk Indicators.”
  • Suzue Saito, PhD, ICAP, will receive $975,000 over five years from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for “Support of Strategic Information Activities in the Kingdom of Lesotho under PEPFAR.”
  • Jeffrey Shaman, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, will receive $465,467 over one year from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for “Informing Pandemic Influenza Intervention Practice: Coordinated Modeling.”
  • Rachel Shelton, ScD, Sociomedical Sciences, will receive $1,799,138 over four years from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities for a subaward of “Social Stress Epigenetics and Cardio-Metabolic Health Among Latinos.”
  • Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, ICAP, will receive $883,403 over two years from FHI 360/ViiV Healthcare for “Harlem HPTN 083: A Phase 2b/3 Double Blind Safety and Efficacy Study of Injectable Cabotegravir Compared to Daily Oral Tenofovir Disoproxil for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in HIV-Uninfected Cisgender Men.”Dr. El-Sadr also will receive $872,785 over two years from FHI 360/ViiV Healthcare for “Bronx HPTN 083: A Phase 2b/3 Double Blind Safety and Efficacy Study of Injectable Cabotegravir Compared to Daily Oral Tenofovir Disoproxil for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in HIV-Uninfected Cisgender Men.”
  • Ruby Fayorsey, MD, ICAP, will receive $2,344,865 over three months from the U.S. Agency for International Development as the initial funding for a five-year subaward of “Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control.”
  • Markus Hilpert, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, and Amelia Boehme, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $436,491 over two years from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for “Crowd-Sourced Traffic Data: Predicting Air Pollution & Acute Ischemic Stroke.”
  • Katherine Keyes, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $1,892,669 over five years from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for “As Adolescent Substance Use Declines, Internalizing Symptoms Increase: Identifying High-risk Substance Using Groups and the Role of Social Media, Parental Supervision, and Unsupervised Time.”
  • Terry McGovern, JD, Population and Family Health, will receive $450,000 over three years from the NoVo Foundation for “Ending Gender Based Violence in Tunisia and Lebanon.”
  • Ian McKeague, PhD, Biostatistics, will receive $1,491,746 over five years from the National Institute on Aging for “Inferential Methods for Functional Data from Wearable Devices.”
  • Regina Santella, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, will receive $325,278 over one year from the California Breast Cancer Research Program for a subaward of “PAHs and Puberty in Girls at Increased Breast Cancer Risk.” Beizhan Yan at Lamont Doherty is co-PI.
  • Terry McGovern, JD, Population and Family Health, will receive $450,000 over three years from the NoVo Foundation for “Ending Gender Based Violence in Tunisia and Lebanon.” Goleen Samari, PhD, Population and Family Health, is co-PI.
  • Wan Yang, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $2,505,995 over five years from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for “Disease Persistence and Population Dynamics: Modeling Measles under Mass Vaccination.”Jeffrey Shaman, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences is co-PI.
  • Mark Hatzenbuehler, PhD, Sociomedical Sciences, and Katherine Keyes, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $1,065,591 over five years from the National Institute of Mental Health for a subaward of “Biopsychosocial Mechanisms Underlying Internalizing Psychopathology in a Prospective, Population-Based Cohort of Sexual Minority Young Adults.”
  • Cassie Landers, EdD, Population & Family Health, will receive $349,944 over one year from the Department for International Development for a subaward of “Effective Approaches to End the Worst Forms of Child Labour.”
  • Silvia Martins, MD, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $1,144,644 over five years from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for a subaward of “Examining the Synergistic Effects of Cannabis and Prescription Opioid Policies on Chronic Pain, Opioid Prescribing, and Opioid Overdose.”
  • Ian McKeague, PhD, Biostatistics, and Alan Brown, MD, MPH, Epidemiology/Psychiatry, will receive $725,477 over five years from the National Institute of Mental Health for a subaward of “Maternal Exposure to Antidepressants and Psychiatric Outcomes Among Offspring in a National Birth Cohort.”
  • Rachel T. Moresky, MD, MPH, Population & Family Health, will receive $2,079,801 over three years from the U.S. Agency for International Development for a subaward for the Developing Acute Care and Emergency Referral Systems consortium in partnership with CRS, Ghana Health Service, and the University of Ghana Regional Institute for Population Studies.
  • Manuela Orjuela-Grimm, MD, Epidemiology, will receive $445,500 over two years from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities for “The COMIDITA Study: Urban Latino Toddlers, Diet Intake, and Developmental Outcomes.”
  • Muhammad Faruque Parvez, DrPH, and Andrea Baccarelli, MD, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, will receive $2,811,680 over five years from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for “Effect of Early-Life Exposure to Metal Mixtures on Lung Function and Mitochondrial DNA in Children.”
  • Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri, PhD, Epidemiology, received $1,948,539 over four years from the National Institute on Aging for the multiple-PI award of “Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain? A Pooled Life-Course Cohort for Dementia Risk Assessment.”
  •  Wafaa M. El-Sadr, MD, ICAP, will receive $50,000,000 over six years from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - PEPFAR for “HIV-Focused Population Surveys in Countries Supported Under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.”
  • Daniel Giovenco, PhD, Sociomedical Sciences, will receive $341,983 over five years from the National Cancer Institute for a subaward of “Examining the Effects of Advertising, Packaging, and Labeling on Perceptions, Use, and Exposure of Combustible Tobacco Products.”
  • Gary Miller, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, will receive $561,793 over one year from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for a subaward of “National Exposure Assessment Laboratory at Emory.”
  • Matthew Perzanowski, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, will receive $991,572 over three years from the Department of Housing & Urban Development for “Urban Fungal Exposure, Sensitization, and Asthma Among a Low-Income Population.”
  • Seth Prins, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $862,573 over five years from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for “Adolescent Substance Use as Determinant and Consequence of the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Disentangling Individual Risk, Social Determinants, and Group Disparities.”
  • Virginia Rauh, ScD, Population & Family Health, will receive $2,425,133 over four years from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for “Brain and Behavioral Indicators of Risk for Parkinsonism Among Adolescents With Early Pesticide Exposure.”
  • Marni Sommer, DrPH, Sociomedical Sciences, will receive $284,859 over one year from the U.S. Agency for International Development for “A Global Scoping and Documenting of Effective Practices to Address Menstrual Hygiene, Laundry, Disposal, and Waste Management Among Displaced Populations.”
  • Rafal Tokarz, PhD, Center for Infection & Immunity, and Nischay Mishra, PhD, Center for Infection and Immunity, will receive $1,210,107 over two years from the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation for “Development and Validation of a Multiplex Serologic Assay for Tickborne Diseases.”
  • Shuang Wang, PhD, Biostatistics, Krzysztof Kiryluk, MD, Medicine, and Chunhua Weng, PhD, Biomedical Informatics, will receive $2,236,063 over five years from the National Library of Medicine for “Big Data Methods for Comprehensive Similarity-Based Risk Prediction.”
  • Andrea Baccarelli, MD, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, will receive $792,671 over five years from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities for a subaward of “Maternal Trauma, Circulating MicroRNA in Extracellular Vesicles, and Programming of Childhood Respiratory Outcomes” and $256,000 over four years from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for a subaward of “The Programming Research in Obesity, Growth, Environment, and Social Stress (PROGRESS) Cohort.”
  • Melissa Begg, ScD, Biostatistics, and Dana March, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $414,880 over five years from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for “BEST-DP: Biostatistics & Epidemiology Summer Training Diversity Program” in a competitive renewal.
  • Jessica Justman, MD, ICAP, will receive $10,000,000 over five years from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for “Public Health Surveillance of Recent HIV Infection and Response Under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).”
  • Katherine Keyes, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $286,389 over three years from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for a subaward of “Drug Use Among Nightclub and Dance Festival Attendees in New York City.”
  • Rachel Shelton, ScD, Sociomedical Sciences, will receive $989,867 over five years from the National Institute on Aging for a subaward of “Stress, Epigenetics, and Aging.”
  • Sheila Smith, PhD, National Center for Children in Poverty, will receive $350,584 over two years from the Seattle Foundation for “I-ECMH Policies That Help Infants and Young Children Thrive.”
  • Elaine Abrams, MD, ICAP, will receive $2,217,336 over two years from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for “CombinADO: A Combination Intervention Strategy to Improve Health Outcomes for Adolescents Living With HIV.”
  • Leslie Davidson, MD, Epidemiology, will receive $1,861,665 over four years from the Fogarty International Center for “Health and Psychosocial Need: The Asenze Study of Risk and Protection in Adolescence.”
  • Ruby Fayorsey, MD, ICAP, will receive $387,434 over one year from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for “Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance in Sierra Leone.”
  • Markus Hilpert, PhD, and Norman Kleiman, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, will receive $435,517 over two years from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for “Tracking Metals From E-cigarettes: From the Coil Into Lung Tissue.”
  • Cassie Landers, EdD, Population & Family Health, will receive $600,000 over one year from the Wellspring Philanthropic Fund for “Planning for Transformation: CPC Learning Network Evolving in an Uncertain World.”
  • Gen Li, PhD, Biostatistics, and Ryan Demmer, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $328,875 over two years from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research for “Multivariate Analysis of Microbial Absolute Abundance in Population-Based Studies.”
  • Barun Mathema, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $328,850 over two years from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for “Mtb Correlates of Risk Molecular Epidemiology.”
  • Christopher Morrison, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $903,260 over five years from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for “Influences of In-Person Social Networks, Digital Social Networks, and Neighborhoods on Adolescent Alcohol Consumption.”
  • Ana Navas-Acien, MD, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, will receive $3,052,059 over five years from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for “Low-Level Arsenic Exposure and Cardiovascular Disease in Multi-Ethnic Adults (MESA As).”
  • Frederica Perera, PhD, DrPH, and Julie Herbstman, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, will receive $8,194,944 over five years from the Office of the NIH Director for “Identifying Newborns at Risk of Adverse Neurodevelopmental Outcomes and Obesity From Air Pollution.”
  • Virginia Rauh, ScD, Population & Family Health, will receive $2,186,788 over five years from the Office of the NIH Director for “Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes in the Northern Plains Safe Passage Study Cohort” in a competitive renewal.
  • Rupak Shivakoti, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $731,230 over three years from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for “Maternal Inflammation, Diet, and Gut Microbiome in HIV: Impact on Infant Outcomes.”
  • Mary Beth Terry, PhD, Epidemiology, David J. Brenner, PhD, Radiation Oncology, and Hui-Chen Wu, DrPH, Environmental Health Sciences, will receive $3,156,839 over five years from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for “DNA Repair Phenotype: The Missing Link in Breast Cancer Risk Assessment.”
  • Yuanjia Wang, PhD, Biostatistics, will receive $445,500 over two years from the National Institute of Mental Health for “Integrative Learning to Combine Evidence for Personalized Treatment Strategies.”
  • Zenebe Melaku Yirsaw, MD, ICAP, will receive $7,654,264 over five years from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - PEPFAR for “Technical Assistance to Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health and Regional Health Bureaus in Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Programming and Direct Site-Level Support in the Four Emerging Regions Under PEPFAR.”