2022

Deborah Hasin, PhD, and Silvia Martins, MD, PhD, Epidemiology: $2,700,235 over five years from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for “Substance Abuse Epidemiology Training Program (SAETP) at Columbia University.”
Rebecca Kehm, PhD, Epidemiology: $341,712 over two years from the National Cancer Institute for “Characterizing the role of adolescent physical activity in early onset breast cancer risk for women across the familial risk continuum.”
Virginia Rauh, ScD, Population & Family Health: $2,040,000 over three years from the JPB Foundation for “Ecological Study of the Comparative Health Effects of Housing-based Interventions.”
Jasmine McDonald, PhD, Epidemiology: $2,606,638 over five years from the National Cancer Institute for “The Tumor Microenvironment and Lymphatic Remodeling in Postpartum Breast Cancer.”
Kara Rudolph, PhD, Epidemiology: $3,135,544 over five years from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for “Role of disability and pain in opioid overdose: mechanism and risk mitigation.”
Susan Michaels-Strasser, PhD, ICAP: $7,851,222 over one year from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for a subaward of “Integrating Services for Maximum Impact.”
Veronicah Mugisha, DPH, ICAP: $1,000,000 over five years from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief for “Enhancing Sustainable and Integrated Health, Strategic Information and Laboratory Systems for Quality Comprehensive HIV Services through Technical Assistance to the Republic of Rwanda under PEPFAR.”
Harriet Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha, MD, PhD, ICAP: $3,789,300 over four years from the Gates Foundation for a subaward of “A Phase 3, Randomized, Active-Controlled, Double-blind Clinical Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Oral Islatravir Once-Monthly as Preexposure Prophylaxis in Cisgender Women at High Risk for HIV-1 Infection.”
Kiros Berhane, PhD, and Christine Mauro, PhD, Biostatistics: $1,212,989 over four years from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for “Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics and Data Science at Columbia.”
Julie Franks, PhD, ICAP: $43,129,160 over five years from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief for “Sustain and Accelerate a Comprehensive HIV Response in the United Republic of Tanzania under PEPFAR.”
Nischay Mishra, PhD, Center for Infection and Immunity: $971,998 over five years from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for a subaward of “Investigation and Treatment of Undiagnosed Neuroinflammatory Diseases.”
Matthew Perzanowski, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences: $2,948,318 over five years from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for “Mold Policy Intervention in New York City Public Housing and Asthma Morbidity.”
Wan Yang, PhD, Epidemiology: $2,171,230 over five years from the National Cancer Institute for “UNCOVER: underlying novel causes of onset of very early cancer research.”
Mary Beth Terry, PhD; Dawn Hershman and colleagues received $20,408,097 over five years from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities for “Center to Improve Chronic disease Outcomes through Multi-level and Multi-generational approaches Unifying Novel Interventions and Training for health EquitY (The COMMUNITY Center).”
Joan Casey, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences Received 2,944,789 over five years from the National Institute on Aging for “Historical social and environmental determinants of memory decline and dementia among U.S. older adults.”
Diana Hernández, PhD, Sociomedical Sciences: $250,000 over two years from the Johnson (Robert Wood) Foundation for “Exploring Racial Disparities in Home Energy Services to Shed New Light on Persistent Housing Inequity.”
Gina Wingood, ScD, Sociomedical Sciences, will receive $1,231,220 over five years from the National Institute of Mental Health for “Social Determinants of HIV.”
Goleen Samari, PhD, Population & Family Health, will receive $654,210 over five years from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for “Migration, Dynamic Social Environments, and Birth Outcomes” and 350,000 over five years from the Grant (William T.) Foundation for “Reducing Harm from Structural Xenophobia for Reproductive Equity.”
Mary Beth Terry, PhD, professor of Epidemiology, is the principal investigator of a new grant -- the Center to Improve Chronic Disease Outcomes through Multi-level and Multi-generational Approaches Unifying Novel Interventions and Training for Health Equity (COMMUNITY Center) at HICCC. The official project will address health disparities in multiple chronic diseases. Read more.