The School of Public Health's Catalyst Grant Program supports work that builds outward from existing strengths to deepen and broaden the School’s research program around the four themes identified in the Strategic Plan: Mental Health, Resilience and Mindfulness; Environmental Health and Climate Change; Vulnerable Life Stages: Children and Older Adults; and Addiction.
Developing a novel geographic momentary assessment approach for studying activity space and underage alcohol use
Kristina Jackson, Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies, Behavioral and Social Sciences
Nancy Barnett, Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies, Behavioral and Social Sciences
Patrick Vivier, Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute; Health Services, Policy & Practice
A mobile app for designing and analyzing data from personalized experiments
Christopher Schmid, Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health, Biostatistics
Thomas Trikalinos, Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health; Health Services, Policy & Practice
Jeff Huang, Computer Science
Virtual reality simulations to develop cognitive discrepancy in motivational interviews with young adult at-risk drinkers
Tyler Wray, Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies, Behavioral and Social Sciences
Christopher Kahler, Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies, Behavioral and Social Sciences
Nancy Barnett, Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies, Behavioral and Social Sciences
Siu-Li Khoe, Rhode Island Virtual Reality
DJ Johnson, New England Institute of Technology
Improving childhood health in LMICs starting in pregnancy: Addressing metabolic syndrome’s impact on pregnancy outcomes among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women in South Africa
Angela Bengtson, Centers for Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Epidemiology
Mark Lurie, International Health Institute, Epidemiology
Jennifer Pellowski, International Health Institute, Behavioral and Social Sciences
Steve McGarvey, International Health Institute, Epidemiology
Susan Cu-Uvin, Global Health Initiative; Health Services, Policy & Practice, Obstetrics and Gynecology; Medicine
Landon Myer, University of Cape Town School of Public Health & Family Medicine