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