2020 Faculty Grants

Julie Franks, PhD, ICAP, will receive $1,533,010 over three years from Janssen Research & Development for “A Multi-center, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Phase 3 Efficacy Study of a Heterologous Vaccine Regimen of Ad26.Mos4.HIV and Adjuvanted Clade C gp140 and Mosaic gp140 to Prevent HIV-1 Infection Among Cisgender Men and Transgender Individuals.”
Andrea Howard, MD, ICAP, will receive $2,750,000 over four years from the Elton John AIDS Foundation for “Almaty Model for Epidemic Control - Helping to End HIV in Eastern Europe & Central Asia.”
Harriet Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha, PhD, ICAP, will receive $540,212 over five years from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for a subaward of “Could Long-Acting Medications Facilitate ‘Ending AIDS by 2030’ in Southern Africa? An Allocative Efficiency Analysis.”
Elizabeth Nesoff, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $851,724 over five years from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for “Neighborhoods, Mental Health, and the Prevention of Opioid Overdose: A Mixed Methods Approach.”
Constance Nathanson, PhD, Sociomedical Sciences, will receive $320,120 over two years from the National Science Foundation for “Standard Research Grant: Science and the Social Production of Crisis: Sagas of HIV/Blood Contamination.”
Wafaa M. El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, director of ICAP at Columbia University and professor of epidemiology and medicine, and Myron S. Cohen, MD, director of University of North Carolina’s Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, in collaboration with FHI 360, have received a seven-year award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for leadership of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN). The initial first-year core and protocol funding support is for $21,388,000.
Yael Hirsch-Moverman, PhD, ICAP, will receive $360,296 over two years from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for “Flexible Intervention Strategy for TB Prevention (FIRST) Study.”
Ruben Sahabo, MD, ICAP, will receive $3,126,445 over one year from the Department of Health - United Kingdom for a subaward of “Fleming Fund Country Grant to Eswatini.”
Gen Li, PhD, Biostatistics, will receive $1,539,486 over five years from the National Human Genome Research Institute for “Tensor Array Methods for RNA-Seq Analysis.”
L.H. Lumey, MD, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $2,583,693 over five years from the National Institute on Aging for “Genetic Analysis of the Dutch Hunger Winter Families Study to Boost Rigor and Robustness for Testing In-Utero Famine Effects on Aging-Related Health Conditions and Biological Aging.”
Rafal Tokarz, PhD, Center for Infection & Immunity, will receive $654,668 over two years from the Cohen (Steven & Alexandra) Foundation for “Improved Detection of Tick-Borne Pathogens by Capture Sequencing.”
Angela Aidala, PhD, Sociomedical Sciences, will receive $711,461 over one year from the Health Resources and Services Administration for a subaward of “Ryan White Part a Contract 93-Evl-4645 for Planning and Evaluation (Base).”
Ian McKeague, PhD, Biostatistics, will receive $719,258 over four years from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for a subaward of “A National Birth Cohort Study of Prenatal Factors and Neurodevelopmental Psychiatric Disorders.”
Norman Kleiman, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, will receive $843,409 over five years from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a subaward of “Rapid Low-Cost Paper-Based Radiation Biodosimetry that Reveals Individual’s Organ Injuries.”
Miriam Rabkin, MD, MPH, ICAP, will receive $1,250,000 over one year from Vital Strategies for “Building Rapid Capacity for Front-Line Health Workers to Prevent and Manage COVID-19 in African Countries.”
Eliza Kinsey, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $261,396 over two years from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for “Impacts of Early Life Food Insecurity on Child Obesity and Cognitive Development Trajectories.”
Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, will receive $2,783,359 over four years from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for “Integrating Air Pollution Prediction Models: Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation in Health Studies.”
Faustin Malele Bazola, MD, ICAP, will receive $1,053,571 over one year from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a subaward of “Enhance Population Access to Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Services in Order to Achieve HIV/AIDS Epidemic Control in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Specifically in Kinshasa Under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).”
Barun Mathema, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $1,087,086 over five years from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for “Differentially Culturable Tubercle Bacteria: The Missing Link in TB Transmission.”
Alwyn Cohall, MD, Sociomedical Sciences, will receive $2,350,000 over five years from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for “National Network of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinical Prevention Training Centers (NNPTC).”
Lynn Freedman, JD, MPH, Population & Family Health, will receive $299,250 over two years from the United Nations Population Fund for “2019 and 2020 AMDD Work Plan.”
Jessica Justman, MD, ICAP, will receive $335,802 over one year from Gilead Sciences for “Making PrEP Smart.”
Simon Anthony, PhD, Center for Infection & Immunity, will receive $2,084,346 over four years from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for “Genetic and Ecological Determinants of Coronavirus Recombination.”
Katherine Keyes, PhD, and Jeffrey Shaman, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $3,213,752 over five years from the National Institute of Mental Health for “Suicide as a Contagion: Modeling and Forecasting Emergent Outbreaks.”
Frederica Perera, DrPH, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, will receive $394,638 over one year from the Office of the NIH Director for a subaward of “Children's Respiratory Research and Environment Workgroup (CREW),” and, with Julie Herbstman, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, will receive $1,917,408 over five years from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for “To Maintain and Enrich Resource Infrastructure for Existing Environmental Epidemiology Cohorts.”
Miriam Rabkin, MD, ICAP, will receive $1,030,078 over one year from the U.S. Agency for International Development for a subaward of “One Health Workforce - Next Generation (OHW-NG).”
Diane Re, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, will receive $3,085,737 over four years from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for “Brain-derived Extracellular Vesicles as a Novel Source of Biomarkers for Disease Progression and Environmental Exposure in ALS.”
Kathleen Sikkema, PhD, Sociomedical Sciences, will receive $2,984,798 over five years from the National Institute of Mental Health for “A Randomized Trial of ImpACT+, a Coping Intervention to Improve Clinical and Mental Health Outcomes Among HIV-infected Women with Sexual Trauma in South Africa.”
Monette Zard, MA, Population & Family Health, will receive $355,112 over one year from UNICEF for “CPC CP AoR Help Desk Partnership.”
Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $705,777 over one year from the National Institute on Aging for “Statins and Risk of Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias: A Novel Quasi-Experimental.”
Andrea Baccarelli, MD, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, will receive $277,395 over two years from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for a subaward of “Using EV-MicroRNAs to Identify a Non-Invasive Biomarker of Uterine Fibroid Outcomes.”
Joan Casey, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, will receive $746,998 over three years from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for “The Impact of Unconventional Natural Gas Development on Maternal, Perinatal, and Childhood Health: An Electronic Health Record Approach.”
Lynn Freedman, JD, MPH, Population & Family Health, will receive $4,202,838 over three years from the Gates Foundation for “Revisioning Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care.”
Ian Lipkin, MD, Epidemiology, will receive $785,500 over one year from the Department of Veterans Affairs for “Post Exertion Malaise in GWI_Brain Autonomic and Behavioral Interactions.”
Silvia Martins, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $696,373 over five years from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for a subaward of “Impact of Medical and Recreational Marijuana Laws On Cannabis, Opioids and Psychiatric Medications: National Study of VA Patients, 2000-2024.”
Barun Mathema, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $269,756 over four years from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a subaward of “A Dual-Beta-Lactam Strategy for Treating Multi Drug Resistant M Abscessus.”
Terry McGovern, JD, Population & Family Health, will receive $500,000 over one year from the David & Lucile Packard Foundation for “Assessing the Impact of the Expanded Global Gag Rule in Nepal and Madagascar.”
Peter Muennig, MD, Health Policy & Management, will receive $566,385 over one year from the National Institute on Aging for “The Health Impacts of the MyGoals Randomized Controlled Trial.”
Alfred Neugut, MD, PhD, Epidemiology, will receive $592,280 over three years from the Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. for “Otsuka-Columbia Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Health Outcomes Research.”
Regina Santella, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, will receive $250,000 over one year from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation for “Environmental Exposures, DNA Repair Capacity and Breast Cancer Risk.”
Jeanette Stingone, PhD, MPH, Epidemiology, will receive $361,075 over five years from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for a subaward of “Human Health Exposure Analysis Resources (HHEAR) Data Center.”
Yifei Sun, PhD, Biostatistics, will receive $305,787 over five years from the National Institute on Aging for a subaward of “Biomarkers of Cognitive Decline Among Normal Individuals: The Biocard Cohort.”
Gina Wingood, ScD, MPH, Sociomedical Sciences, will receive $420,231 over seven years from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a subaward of “Atlanta MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study Clinical Research Site.”
Monette Zard, MA, Population & Family Health, will receive $996,990 over two years from the World Bank for “Answering the Big Questions in Forced Displacement and Health.”