The 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. We are proud to fund the following projects.
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
