Wednesday, February 28, 2018

2018 Pilot Grant Awardees

We are thrilled to announce the 2018 C-FAHR funding awardees.  We look forward to seeing what these teams and projects create.

2018 Interdisciplinary Pilot Grant Awards
Margaret Clayton
K. Supiano,
K. Dassel,
G. Towsley,
J. Eaton.
M. Caserta,
R. Utz,
E. Jacob,
L. Miller

Nursing, Gerontology, Sociology
Live Patient Discharge From Hospice: Implications For Families And Hospice Staff
Gail Towsley
A.Terril

Nursing, Occ Therapy
Me & My Wishes: Developing a Family Conversation Component to Enhance Communication about Care Preferences in Assisted Living Communities
Elisabeth Conradt
S. Crowell
M.  Smid
K. Buchi
C.  Fung
J. Shakib
E. Garland

Psychology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Social Work
Epigenetic and neurodevelopmental treatment targets for prenatal opioid exposure
Deanna Kepka
A.Kirchoff
D. Wetter
L. Clark
D. Lai

Nursing, Pediatrics, Population Health Sciences
Feasibility Assessment for Engaging Rural Providers in a Multi-Level Family-Centered HPV Intervention
Claudia Geist
J. Sanders

Sociology, Ob/Gyn
HerStories: Economic Context of Family Planning
Alex Terril
R. Altizer
B. Cardell
L. Clark
J. Mackenzie

Occ Therapy, Population Health Sciences, Nursing, Division of Phs Rehab Med
Piloting a web-based positive psychology intervention for couples coping with brain injury

2018 Student Awards (travel and research support)


Robert Vlisides-Henry

Psychology
Like Mother Like Daughter (or Son): Prenatal Exposure to Maternal Stress and Emotion Dysregulation as Predictors of Newborn Neurobehaviors
Elizabeth Nagelhout

Public Health, DFPM
Assessing Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure in Rural and Urban Utah Families
Ashley Elrick

Communication
Western States Communication Association Conference

2018 C-FAHR Shared Resources & Training Efforts
Brian Baucom, Daniel Adkins, Simon Brewer, Jon Butner, Pascal Deboeck have developed and will launch a series of summer workshops in advanced statistical methods for "family research".  To begin in summer 2018 and sponsored by ICPSR.

C-FAHR has established an AddHealth data analysis office.  C-FAHR members that would like access to these data (Waves I-V) should contact rebecca.utz@utah.edu to learn about the data security protocols and to sign the data security pledge.