2023

Jamie Daw, PhD, and Heidi Allen, PhD, Health Policy & Management: $3,394,421 over four years from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities for "The Postpartum Assessment of Women Survey (PAWS): Informing Medicaid Policies to Improve Health in the 'Fourth Trimester.'"
Nischay Mishra, PhD, Center for Infection and Immunity: $568,141 over two years for a subaward from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for "Diagnosing and predicting risk in children with SARS-CoV-2 related illness."
Adana Llanos Wilson, PhD, Epidemiology: $3,397,237 over four years from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities for "Assessing Cervical Cancer Healthcare Inequities in Diverse Populations: The ACHIEVE Study."
Darby Jack, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences: $979,735 over five years for a subaward from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for "Early life household air pollution, metal composition and cardiovascular health: Evidence from GRAPHS."
Kiros Berhane, PhD, Biostatistics: $281,439 over five years for a subaward from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for "Neighborhood characteristics and neurodevelopment: Risk and protective factors, and susceptibility to stressors and school disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic."
Mary Beth Terry, PhD, and Jeanine Genkinger, PhD, Epidemiology: $8,939,079 over five years from the National Cancer Institute for "Breast Cancer Family Registry."
Seth Prins, PhD, Epidemiology: $3,608,096 over five years from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for "Estimating the impact of the school-to-prison pipeline on adolescent health: racialized, spatial, disparities in policing, school discipline, substance use, and mental illness."
Muhammad Parvez, DrPH, Environmental Health Sciences Awarded Multi-Million Dollar Grant from NIEHS to Study Developmental Exposure to Arsenic.
Daniel Giovenco, PhD, Sociomedical Sciences: $2,912,828 over five years from the National Cancer Institute for "Assessing the impact, equity, and mechanisms of a novel policy intervention to reduce tobacco retailer density in communities."
Ruby Fayorsey, MD, ICAP: $1,140,548 over five years for a subaward from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for "Delivering Comprehensive and Sustainable HIV/AIDS Clinical and Community Services to Achieve HIV Epidemic Control in Subnational Units in Nigeria under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)."
Linda Valeri, PhD, Biostatistics Received $2,733,129 over five years from the National Institute on Aging for "Bayesian Statistical Learning for Robust and Generalizable Causal Inferences in Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders Research."
Anne Nigra, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences: $677,000 over four years from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for "Environmental Health Research for Teachers and High School Students (EARTH) in the Great Northern Plains."
Heather Krasna, PhD, Health Policy & Management: $450,000 over five years from the Health Resources and Services Administration for "Consortium for Public Health Workforce Research (C-WORPH)."
Adana Llanos Wilson, PhD, Epidemiology: $3,526,470 over five years from the National Cancer Institute for "Understanding the role of adiposity and adipokine-related RNA expression in the tumor microenvironment on breast cancer outcomes in a racially and ethnically diverse sample."
Julie Herbstman, professor of Environmental Health Sciences and director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, awarded $599,919 over four years from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for "Exposomic Approach to Identifying WTC Exposures and Effects in Survivor Youth."
Ana Navas-Acien, MD, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences: $9,381,875 over five years from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for "Columbia University and Northern Plains Partnership for the Superfund Research Program."
Alwyn Cohall, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Population and Family Health and Pediatrics at the Columbia University Medical Center, received funding from the Department of Health, for two five-year grants – “Improving Equity through Clinical HIV Prevention in Community Health Settings, Component B: Young Adult Community Access Programs (YACAP)” for $2,000,000 and “Advancing Health Equity through Comprehensive Community-Based HIV Ambulatory Care Services: Component B, Centers for Young Adults (SCC)” for $1,812,495. The project period for both grants is July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2028.
Daniel Giovenco, assistant professor of sociomedical sciences, is a Co-Investigator on a new U01 center grant funded through the NIH National Cancer Institute and Federal Drug Administration. The Center for Rapid Surveillance of Tobacco (CRST) consists of a national network of collaborators who will use innovative methodologies to rapidly detect emerging trends in nicotine use. Collaborators will assess changes in use behaviors, product marketing, and the marketplace to better understand the rapidly evolving tobacco landscape in the United States.
Wafaa Mahmoud El-Sadr, MD, ICAP: $1,000,000 over four years from Cepheid Inc. for "Pandemic Response Institute Cepheid."
Jennifer Hirsch, PhD, Sociomedical Sciences: $1,045,045 over five years from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for "GSH Training Grant."
Rupak Shivakoti, PhD, Epidemiology: $1,189,147 over three years from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for "Metabolic impact of ART on women living with HIV and their infants."
Ami Zota, ScD, Environmental Health Sciences: $450,000 over three years from the JPB Foundation for "Agents of Change in Environmental Justice."
Charles Branas, PhD, Epidemiology: $326,587 over four years for a subaward from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for "The role of neighborhood greenspace in reducing risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, chronic hypertension, and racial disparities in maternal morbidity."
Kelli Hall, PhD, Population and Family Health: $3,439,225 over five years from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism for "Improving alcohol and substance use care access, outcomes, and equity during the reproductive years: A Type 1 Hybrid Trial in Family Planning Clinics."
Christian Gloria, PhD, Sociomedical Sciences: $3,075,216 over four years from the Health Resources and Services Administration for "Affordable Care Act: Public Health Training Centers Program."
Mary Beth Terry, PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, and Jasmine McDonald, PhD, Epidemiology: $1,693,082 over five years from the National Cancer Institute for "Training in Health Equity, Highlighting Environmental Inequities, & Growing Neighborhood Teachers and Students (YES in THE HEIGHTS)."
Daniel Belsky, PhD, Epidemiology, and Peter Muennig, MD, Health Policy & Management: $2,979,505 over five years from the National Institute on Aging for "The MyGoals for Healthy Aging Multi-Center Randomized Controlled Trial."
Adana Llanos, PhD, Epidemiology: $1,549,760 over four years from the National Cancer Institute for "Impact of Allostatic Load and Neighborhood Contextual Factors on Breast Cancer in the Women’s Health Initiative."
Silvia Martins, MD, PhD, Epidemiology, and Morgan Philbin, PhD, Sociomedical Sciences: $3,788,799 over five years from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for "State-level opioid policies and policies that regulate substance use during pregnancy: a mixed methods exploration of their effects on maternal and infant outcomes."
Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, ICAP: $1,247,760 over six months for a subaward from ViiV Healthcare for "HPTN 084: A Phase 3 Double Blind Safety and Efficacy Study of Long-Acting Injectable Cabotegravir Compared to Daily Oral TDF/FTC for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in HIV-Uninfected Women."