GRANTS & CONTRACTS
This section includes new grants and contracts awarded in 2019-20. Due to space limitations, only funds of $50,000 or more are listed, by principal investigator.
DR. RICHARD AMBROSE Restoring Rocky Intertidal Foundation Species Across California California Ocean Protection Council & University of California, Santa Barbara, $173,077 for four years Assessing Long-Term Changes in Species Abundances and Community Structure in Southern California Rocky Intertidal Habitats Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management & University of California, Santa Cruz, $100,000 for three-and-a-half years DR. HAROUTUNE ARMENIAN American University of Armenia Corporation/ American University of Armenia Funds for Dr. Armenian American University of Armenia Corporation, $72,591 DR. SUSAN BABEY 2017-2018 California Health Interview Survey Research Studies The California Endowment, $538,000 for two years DR. SUDIPTO BANERJEE Collaborative Research: High-Dimensional Spatial-Temporal Modeling and Inference for Large Multi-Source Environmental Monitoring Systems National Science Foundation, $199,993 for three years DR. LIWEI CHEN Reducing Disparities in Birth Outcomes: A Randomized Controlled Trial on Centering Pregnancy National Institute of Child Health and Human Development & Clemson University, $98,736 for three years Mindfulness Training for People With a History of Depression, Substance Abuse or Inactivity Greenville Health Authority Board of Trustees & Clemson University, $131,492 for four years DR. EMMELINE CHUANG Qualitative Research, Project Management and 36
Statistical Analysis - Task Order Department of Veterans Affairs, $700,000 DR. ROGER DETELS Los Angeles Clinical Research Site (CRS) for the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study/Women’s Interagency HIV Study Combined Cohort Study National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, $934,217 DRS. ALINA DORIAN AND MICHAEL PRELIP Pandemic Workforce Training Academy California Department of Public Health & University of California, San Francisco, $4,657,500 DR. DAVID EISENMAN A Market Assessment Study of the National Health Security Preparedness Index Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $311,413 DR. PATRICIA GANZ A Model Clinical/Translational Research Program for Breast Cancer Survivors: A Focus on Cognitive Function After Breast Cancer Treatment The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, $250,000 A Randomized, Double-Blind, Phase III Trial of Paclitaxel/Trastuzumab/Pertuzumab With Atezolizumab or Placebo in First-Line HER2Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Foundation, $70,449 for five years DR. GILBERT GEE Longitudinal Study of Sleep Deficiency Mechanisms Among Filipino Migrants National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, $2,591,876 for five years DRS. PAMINA GORBACH AND STEVE SHOPTAW MSM and Substances Cohort at UCLA Linking Infections Noting Effects (MASCULINE) National Institute on Drug Abuse, $126,000 DR. JULIA HECK Birth Outcomes Among Alpha-1 Families Alpha-1 Foundation, $75,000 for one-and-a-half years
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DR. JODY HEYMANN For Developing Actionable Data for Strategic Use by Civil Society and Other Actors to Accelerate Women’s Economic Empowerment William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, $750,000 Harnessing the Power of Global Data to Support Young Children’s Learning and Development: Analyses, Dissemination and Implementation Economic and Social Research Council & University of Oxford, $322,452 for four years DR. MARJAN JAVANBAKHT A Randomized Crossover Study to Evaluate the Efficacy of Antibacterial Mouthwash in Preventing Pharyngeal Gonorrhea Among a HighRisk Population National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, $364,741 for two years DR. MICHAEL JERRETT A Scenario Tool for Assessing the Health Benefits of Conserving, Restoring and Managing Natural Working Lands in California California Environmental Protection Agency, $396,000 for two years Powering Healthy Lives Through Parks Urban Institute & Prevention Institute, $65,000 Ambient Air Pollution and COVID-19 Disease Severity or Death Among Confirmed Cases in Southern California California Environmental Protection Agency - Air Resources Board, $607,967 for two years DR. GERALD KOMINSKI California Health Policy Research Program 20192021 The California Endowment & University of California, Berkeley, $137,000 for two years Impact of Over-the-Counter Availability of Emergency Contraception on Uptake, Pregnancy, and Births National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities & RAND Corporation, $112,212 for two years LIQIAO (VICKY) LI AND DR. YIFANG ZHU Evaluating the Impact of Key Parameters on Evaporation of E-Cigarette Aerosols UC Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, $133,674 for two years DR. ELIZABETH ROSE MAYEDA Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias in a Diverse Cohort of Asian Americans National Institute on Aging, $2,015,460 for threeand-a-half years Contributions of Educational Quality and Occupational Complexity on Inequities in Brain
