Grants & Contracts
This section includes new grants and contracts awarded between July 1, 2021, and June 15, 2023. Due to space limitations, only funds of $50,000 or more are listed, by principal investigator.
GABINO ABARCA AND HIRAM BELTRAN-SANCHEZ
Health Policy Research Scholars Cohort Five – 2021
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $93,000 for four years
Uptake, Safety and Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccines During Pregnancy
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases & University of San Francisco, $135,627 for three years
Center for Health Policy Research – Utilizing Research Studies
The California Endowment, $500,000 for two years
The Impact of CalFresh Expansion on Food Insecurity and Performance Among Higher Education Students
Educational Credit Management Corporation Foundation, $300,000 for one-and-a-half years
Bayesian Modeling and Inference for High-Dimensional Disease Mapping and Boundary Detection
National Institute of General Medical Sciences, $1,174,624 for four years
Probabilistic Multiscale Modeling of the Tumor Microenvironment
National Cancer Institute & Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, $414,781 for five years
Qualitative Research, Project Management and Statistical Analysis Master Agreement (MA) 4 – Task Order 1
Department of Veterans Affairs, $428,524
Adapting Project Towards No Nicotine for Virtual Delivery in Ethnically Diverse Afterschool Settings
UC Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, $1,233,121 for three years
The Environmental Health Fellows Program for Urban Health
The JPB Foundation & Harvard University, $227,677 for two years
Measuring Progress Towards Improving Environmental Conditions in Disadvantaged Communities
California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, $183,324
Toxic Substances in the Environment – Project 1
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences & University of California, Berkeley, $247,242 for five years
CHINA-US Advanced Public Health Talents Training Program
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CHINA), $215,108
Collaborating With RWJF’s Transforming Academia for Equity Initiative as a Partner Academic Institution – University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $300,000 for one-and-a-half years
ALINA DORIAN AND MICHAEL PRELIP
Pandemic Workforce Training Academy for California – FEMA/COVID (Virtual Training Academy [VTA] Plus)
California Department of Public Health & University of California, San Francisco, $1,666,184 for two years
Pandemic Workforce Training Academy for California – FEMA/ COVID (VTA) (Reserve Corps)
California Department of Public Health & University of California, San Francisco, $239,870 for two years
Pandemic Workforce Training Academy for California – FEMA/COVID (VTA) (Schools TA)
California Department of Public Health & University of California, San Francisco, $161,475
Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Applied Research and Practice Training Program
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention & Association of Schools of Public Health, $386,100
CONVERGE: Coordinated Social Science, Engineering, and Interdisciplinary Extreme Events Reconnaissance Research – Public Health and Extreme Events Research Community of Practice
National Science Foundation & University of Colorado, $78,350
AISHA FLETCHER AND CHANDRA FORD
Health Policy Research Scholars Cohort Six – 2022
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $124,000 for four years
Project REFOCUS: Phase II
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention & National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc., $5,146,185 for one-and-a-half years
The Rapid Assessment of COVID Evidence (R.A.C.E.) Series
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $84,460 for one-and-a-half years
A Model Clinical/Translational Research Program for Breast Cancer Survivors: A Focus on Cognitive Function After Breast Cancer Treatmenty
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, $415,000 for two years
Cognitive Training for Cancer-Related Cognitive Impairment: A Multi-Center Randomized Controlled Trial
National Cancer Institute & Ohio State University, $272,174 for five years
Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Trauma-Exposed, Homeless Women
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, $228,717 for one-and-a-half years
COVID-19 Multilingual Resource Hub for Vaccine Equity Campaign
Sierra Health Foundation, $199,955 for one-and-a-half years
Understanding the Impact of Structural Racism on Racial/Ethnic Inequities in Mortality: The Multiethnic Cohort Study
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities & University of California, San Francisco, $415,351 for five years
Informing the Design of a Game-Based Intervention to Improve Health Insurance Literacy
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, $50,000
Effectiveness and Mechanisms of Multilevel Implementation Strategies to Improve Provider Recommendation and Advance Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination: A Cluster Randomized Trial
National Cancer Institute & Kaiser Foundation Research, $95,465 for five years
Collaborating Consortium of Cohorts Producing National Institute on Drug Abuse Opportunities (C3PNO) Bridge Funding Supplement
National Institute on Drug Abuse, $1,000,961
ELEANOR HAYES-LARSON
Effects of Lifecourse Traumatic Stress on Late-Life Cognitive Decline, Dementia, and Neuroimaging Biomarkers
National Institute on Aging, $241,233 for two years
Partners in Excellence for Leadership in Maternal Child Health Nutrition
Department of Health and Human Services - Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), $1,124,840 for five years
Advancing Understanding of Tobacco, Vaping & Cannabis Among Indigenous Mexican Agricultural Workers
UC Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, $620,728 for two years
Black Youth Protecting Black Peace
Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Minority Health & The Amelia Ann Adams Whole Life Center, $165,000 for three years
Building the Investment Case for Early Childhood in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Conrad Hilton Foundation, $3,500,000 for three years
Examining Economic Sustainability and How to Improve Equity in Paid Leave Policies
Blue Shield of California Residence and Education Foundation, $354,768
For Developing Actionable Tools for Expanding Social Protection for Caregiving to Accelerate Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE)
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, $1,000,000 for one-and-a-half years
Examining Key Equity Provisions in Paid Leave Policies
Urban Institute & Family Values @ Work Action, Inc., $100,000
For Supporting Fundraising Planning for the WORLD Center
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, $100,000
For Supporting Longitudinal Data on Policies and Laws that Advance Gender Equity in Governance
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, $1,000,000 for one-and-a-half-years
Accelerating Bayesian Dimension Reduction for Dynamic Network Data With Many Observations
National Science Foundation, $300,000 for three years
CAREER: Data-Centric Evolutionary Contagion Models With Parallel and Quantum Parallel Computing
National Science Foundation, $549,227 for five years
Ambient Air Pollution and COVID-19 in California
Environmental Protection Agency & University of California, Davis, $93,195
Improved Assessment and Tracking of Health Impacts for California Communities Most Burdened by Pollution
California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board, $499,971 for two years
CEVICA: Cooking Electrification and Ventilation Improvements for Children’s Asthma
California Energy Commission & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, $81,600 for three years
MICHAEL JERRETT AND HONGHU LIU
Aliso Canyon Community Exposure and Health Study (ACCOUNT)
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, $20,993,333 for five years
Southern California Education and Research Center
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, $8,280,000 for five years
The Interdisciplinary Training, Education and Research Activities for Assessing and Controlling Contaminants from Emerging Technologies (InTERACCT) Program
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences & University of Minnesota, $165,590 for four years
U-Cover: University of Utah Containment Ventilation for Exposure Reduction
Department of Defense - U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA), $90,900 for two years
Chief Editor of the Annals of Work Exposures and Health
The British Occupational Hygiene Society, $257,184
Exploring Pesticide Use in Plant Nurseries Under Power Line Rights of Way
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), $182,367
TransExpo Study Development (Supplement)
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), $50,000
Economic Security for Older Adults in San Francisco and California: Assuring the Elder Index as a Benchmark
Metta Fund, $100,000 for two years
Health Equity Challenge
The Molina Healthcare Charitable Foundation, $125,000
Master Plan for Aging (MPA) Data Dashboard Project
California Department of Aging, $126,000
Multipurpose Senior Services Program (MSSP) and Community Based Adult Services (CBAS) Needs Assessment
California Department of Aging, $170,000
Health Equity Challenge II
California Healthcare Foundation, $100,000; The Molina Healthcare Charitable Foundation, $100,000
California Health Policy Research Program 2021-22
The California Endowment & University of California, Berkeley, $68,500
Using California Simulation of Insurance Markets (CalSIM) to Model Health Coverage in Rapidly Changing Times
California Healthcare Foundation & University of California, Berkeley, $537,000 for four years
California Health Policy Research Program 2022-24
The California Endowment & University of California, Berkeley, $102,750 for one-and-a-half years
Using Mobile Phone Technology to Monitor Health and Housing Trajectories of People Experiencing Homelessness in Los Angeles
Conrad Hilton Foundation & University of Southern California, $82,033 for one-and-a-half years
Mapping Vulnerable Populations in California to Climate-Related Hazards
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), $250,000 for two years
C’est La Vie: Phase II Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation & The African Network for Health Education, $399,950 for three-and-a-half years
Hashtag Human Papillomavirus (HPV): Engaging Parents Through Social Media to Increase HPV Vaccination
National Cancer Institute & University of Arkansas, $126,655 for two years
FOLASADE MAY
Community Collaboration to Advance Racial/Ethnic Equity in Colorectal Cancer Screening (CARES)
Stand Up To Cancer & The General Hospital Corporation, $815,506 for three years
Multilevel Health System Intervention to Increase Surveillance Colonoscopy for High-Risk Colorectal Polyps
National Cancer Institute, $3,106,096 for five years
Historical Social and Environmental Determinants of Memory Decline and Dementia Among U.S. Older Adults
National Institute on Aging & Columbia University, $1,047,106 for five years
Lifecourse Health, Cerebral Pathology and Ethnic Disparities in Dementia
National Institute on Aging & University of California, Davis, $858,159 for five years
A Fiber-Diverse, Anti-Inflammatory Diet and Aerobic Exercise Reduce Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence
UC-California Breast Cancer Research Program, $195,000 for two years
Socioeconomic and Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Tobacco Uptake in Diverse Adolescent Minority Groups
UC Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program & Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, $539,116 for three years
YING-YING MENG AND SUSAN BABEY
Preventable Hospitalizations and Emergency Department (ED) Visits
Martin Luther King-Los Angeles (MLK-LA) Healthcare Corporation, $191,512
Adaptive Intervention Strategies Trial for Strengthening Adherence to Antiretroviral HIV Treatment Among Youth
National Institute of Nursing Research, $814,423 for two years
Efficacy of a Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Uptake & Adherence Intervention Among Male Sex Workers Using a 2-Stage Randomization Design
National Institute of Nursing Research & Brown University, $1,657,925 for five years
Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) Scientific Leadership Center
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development & Florida State University, $1,241,300 for five years
Digital, Limited Interaction Pilot Trial of LifeSkills Mobile to Promote Engagement in Care & Sexual Health Among Young Transgender Women Recently Diagnosed With HIV (Supplement)
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, $188,760
MATTHEW MIMIAGA AND ROGER DETELS
Innovation Fund Application to the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study/Women’s Interagency HIV Study Combined Cohort Study (MWCCS): COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance & Hesitancy (CVBH) Study in People With HIV (Supplement)
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, $819,374
Los Angeles Clinical Research Site (CRS) for the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study/ Women’s Interagency HIV Study (MACS/ WIHS) Combined Cohort Study (Supplement)
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, $452,307
A New Collaboration to Understand Factors Associated With HPV Vaccine Uptake for Girls in Kenya
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, $150,000 for two years
Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Routine Childhood Vaccination in Kenya
Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute, Inc., $49,912
Identifying Modifiable Multilevel Factors Associated With HPV Vaccine Uptake in Kenya and Malawi
National Cancer Institute, $300,000
HOISUM NGUYEN AND ONYEBUCHI ARAH
Health Policy Research Scholars Cohort Six – 2022
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $124,000 for four years
Identifying Key Modifiable Risk Factors
California Department of Public Health & University of California, San Francisco, $61,363
Impact of Lifestyle Interventions on Alzheimer’s Disease: A Microsimulation
Alzheimer’s Association, $149,305 for two-and-a-half years
Network Intervention Planning Without Actual Network Data for Infectious Disease Control
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, $538,884 for four years
The Evolution of Overconfidence and the Role of Early-Warning Signals Amid Pandemics
Japan Science and Technology Agency, $468,000 for three years
RAISE: IHBEM. Integrating Traditional Survey and Digital Sociobehavioral Data Into Infectious Disease Models for Long-Term Forecasting
National Science Foundation, $997,739 for three years
CORINA PENAIA AND NINEZ PONCE
Health Policy Research Scholars Cohort Six – 2022
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $124,000 for four years
JULIAN PONCE AND HIRAM BELTRAN-SANCHEZ
Health Policy Research Scholars Cohort Six – 2022
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $124,000 for four years
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, $447,600 for two years; California Department of Health Care Services (DHS), $4,200,300 for three years; California Wellness Foundation, $415,000 for three years; California Civil Rights Department, $1,000,000 for four-and-a-half years; California Healthcare Foundation, $990,438 for three years; The California Endowment, $3,174,488 for two years; California Children and Families Commission (First 5 California), $3,408,429 for four years
California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) Oversample for Martin Luther King Community Health Martin Luther King, Jr.
Community Health Foundation, $179,000 for one-and-a-half years
Growing the Model for Data-Driven Policymaking for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Populations in Time of Pandemic to Help Promote Health Equity
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $500,000
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders (NHPIs) Addressing Health Equity and Data (AHEAD)
Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) - Office of Minority Health, $250,000 for three years
The Impacts of Mitigation Strategies to Prevent COVID-19 Transmission in Native American Communities
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities & National Bureau of Economic Research Incorporated, $675,000 for five years
Trends and Scenarios for California’s Future: Universal Effective Coverage and Population Health Equity
California Community Foundation & University of California, Berkeley, $90,000 for one-and-a-half years
California Health Interview Survey Santa Clara County Oversample
County of Santa Clara Department of Public Health, $1,048,592 for two-and-a half years
Community Partnership in Creating the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Health Equity Index
State of California & University of California, Riverside, $160,606
Establishing the Data Equity Center to Center Equity in the Design, Collection, Production, and Dissemination of Population Health Data
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $999,000 for three years
Hosting Meetings Targeting Health Data Sectors to Brainstorm Effective Approaches for Driving Data Equity
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $250,000 for two years
Technical Assistance for Data Disaggregation Efforts
Leadership Conference Education Fund, $325,000 for two years
California Breast Cancer Research Program Policy (CBCRP) Initiative: Breastfeeding for Disadvantaged
UC-California Breast Cancer Research Program, $123,404
African American Infant and Maternal Mortality (AAIMM) Prevention Initiative Evaluation Services
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, $1,020,514 for two years
Anesthesia and Sedation Research Project
California Department of Public Health, $716,748 for two years
Parks After Dark (PAD) Evaluation Services
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, $277,400 for two years
UCLA Public Health Scholars Training Program
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, $4,250,000 for five years
COVID-19 Vaccination in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): Assessment of Behavioral and Social Determinants for Vaccination in Target Populations
The Task Force for Global Health, Inc., $400,425
Knowledge Research Dissemination for Routine Immunization
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, $199,900
Strengthening Pharmacovigilance Systems and Adverse Events Reporting for Maternal Immunization Safety in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Food and Drug Administration, $2,814,105 for three years
Innovation in Routine Immunization (RI) Rapid Coverage Surveys
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, $998,335
Monkeypox Threat Reduction Network (MPX-TRN): Using the Sentinel Sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a Regional Training Center to Create Sustainable Biosurveillance Systems in Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Priority Countries
Department of Defense - Defense Threat Reduction Agency, $4,989,237 for five years
Ecological and Epidemiological Investigations of High-Consequence Zoonotic Pathogens at the Livestock, Wildlife and Human Interface
United States Department of Agriculture - Agriculture Research Service (ARS), $1,664,956 for three years
A Multi-Omics Approach to Environment and Depression in Parkinson’s Disease (MOOD-PD)
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, $429,000 for two years
DNA Methylation Studies of Parkinson’s Disease in the Systemic Synuclein Sampling Study
Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, $299,904 for two years
Microbiome, Pesticides and Parkinson’s in Latinos (Supplement)
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, $296,322 for two years
Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Features, Progression, and Quality of Care in Latino Patients From a Population-Based Epidemiological Study in the United States
Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, $197,843 for one-and-a-half years
Preterm Birth, Childhood Autism, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer Disease and Air Pollution
California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board, $998,612 for two years
Air Pollution, Metabolome, and Alzheimer’s Disease in Mexican Americans
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, $2,274,447 for three years
Early Life Vulnerability to Climate-Driven Wildfire Events on Pregnancy and Child Developmental Health Outcomes in Underserved Populations
Environmental Protection Agency & University of California, Davis, $61,412
Environmental and Gut-Brain Determinants of Cognitive Outcomes in PD
Department of Defense - U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA), $596,016 for four years
Real-World Complexities in Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: Understanding Family Comorbidity, High-Risk Medication Use, and Costs Related to Treatment Adherence and Health Outcomes
National Institute on Drug Abuse, $915,245 for five years
Toward Scalable Biomarker-Based Prediction of ASD in High-Risk Infants (IBIS)
National Institute of Mental Health & Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, $54,936 for three years
Mechanisms of Change With Early Intervention in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development & Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, $57,015 for one-and-a-half years
Use of Reproductive Health Care Among Asian Immigrant Women
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $3,038,468 for five years
Training the California Air Research Board Enforcement Staff for the Investigation of Odor Nuisances
California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board, $100,605
Occupational and Environmental Exposures and Work Practices for Nanomaterials and Electronic Products
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, $1,101,972 for five years
Global Partnership to Prevent Sexual Violence on College and University Campuses
WellSpring Philanthropic Fund Inc., $350,000 for one-and-a-half years
Resilience and Growth of the Global Campus Violence Prevention Research Network
Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc., $350,000 for two years
MAY WANG, MICHAEL PRELIP, AND HUA ZHOU
Modelers and Storytellers: Transdisciplinary Training to Advance Community Health Intervention Research
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $725,577 for four years
ALEXANDRA WOLLUM AND JESSICA GIPSON
Provider Attitudes, Long-Acting Reversible Contraception, and Quality of Care: A Mixed Methods Study in Tanzania
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $77,490 for two years
Issues in Insurance Design: A Public Option and Wealth Inequality Under High Deductible Insurance
Commonwealth Fund, $57,089
Senior Scientific Research Assistance, Statistical Analysis, Project Management and Public Health Technical Assistance Between VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and Educational Affiliate University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Department of Veterans Affairs, $445,000
Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies (SMART) Cancer Care Teams: Enhancing Electronic Health Record (EHR) Communication to Improve Interprofessional Teamwork
National Cancer Institute & University of California, Davis, $680,778 for five years
Support Services for Joint Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) Projects at the Greater Los Angeles Veteran Affairs (VA) Health Care System
Department of Veterans Affairs, $310,000
LA100 Equity Strategies: Air Quality and Human Health Benefits Associated with Clean Vehicle Transition in Los Angeles
City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, $394,718
Reducing Environmental Exposures to Electronic Cigarettes Aerosols and Associated Health Effects
UC Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, $1,146,785 for three years
Public Health Scholarship Program (PHSP)
Department of Health & Human Services - Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), $1,499,992 for three years
