In the past two years, we have funded 12 studies at $25,000 each, which are currently underway. See below for a description of funded studies, organized by topic to show the range of research being conducted.
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Acute Care
"Prevalence and Correlates of Secondary and Comorbid Conditions Following Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury"
PI: Denise Tate, PhD
Child Maltreatment
“Increasing Mother-Child Attachment in Substance-Abusing Mothers: A Model Intervention to Prevent Child Maltreatment”
PI: Jennifer Jester, PhD
"Functional and Structural Neuroanatomy of Abuse and Neglect in Childhood"
PI: Suzanne Perkins, PhD
General Injury Prevention
“Injury Prevention under the Healthy Homes Program”
PI: Jerome Nriagu, PhD
Intimate Partner Violence
“Community-based Sociocultural Tailoring of IPV Prevention through peer-Educator Interactive Theater Performances and Audience Response Measurement”
PI: Mieko Yoshihama, PhD
Substance Use
"Development of a Brief Prescription Opioid Overdose Prevention Intervention"
PI: Amy Bohnert, PhD
Transportation
“Will Advanced In-vehicle Crash Warning Systems Improve Young Driver Safety? An Evaluation from Naturalistic Driving Data”
PI: Shan Bao, PhD
"Neural predictors of risky driving and susceptibility to peer influence in adolescents"
PI: Emily Falk, PhD
“Cell Phone Bans: Effect on Teen Driver Crashes”
PI: Ed Ionides, PhD
“Pilot Evaluation of Risk Factors for Adverse Interactions between Drivers and Bicyclists”
PI: Richard Neitzel, PhD, CIH
"Evaluating and Comparing Spatial Variations on the Effectiveness of Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) Programs in the USA"
PI: Peter X. Song, PhD
Youth Violence