Presented here are four funded grants written by the DREM Center faculty over the past fifteen years. They are examples of different types of NIH grants and are a comprehensive overview of different post-disaster research projects.

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Rapid 2004 Florida Hurricanes grant application
The Florida Hurricanes presented a unique opportunity to study the acute and clinical disorder phenotypes, risk and protective factors, including genetic protective factors, and subsequent service needs of a group of older adults who were disproportionately represented as disaster victims relative to the US population. Specifically, older adults resided in the areas most severely affected by the hurricanes at population density levels approximately twice that of the averace US county. As such, a large and relatively easily accessible (in terms of random screening of households successfully resulting in identifying an older adult respondent) group of affected older adults was available to stdy in this context. The overarching goal of this project was to document the acute impact of these repeated disasters on older adults while scientifically informing the development and improvement of services for older adults.
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Rapid September 11 grant application
This was a RAPID grant application to NIH that was funded. It enabled the New York Academy of Medicine and the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center teams to enroll a cohort of persons in the New York metropolitan area to be assessed approximately 6 months after September 11, 2001.
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Longitudinal R01 September 11 grant application
The amount of money available through NIH RAPID grant mechanisms is limited. As such, the RAPID mechanism was used by our teams to enroll a baseline of participants. We then submitted another grant proposal as a regular R01 submission that was specifically intended to obtain money to follow (for two more survey waves) the participants initially enrolled through the first proposal. Such “patchwork” of funding is not uncommon in post-disaster work, where the monies that are available relatively quickly are not enough to implement the entire project that is being planned.
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Longitudinal R01 Youth, Violence and Substance Use grant application
This grant was funded by the National Institute of Justice. It allowed the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center and Schulman, Ronca, and Bucuvalas, Inc. to conduct telephone interviews across the United States to assess violence and traumatic victimization, mental health outcomes (e.g. Post Traumatic Stress and depression), and familial substance use within a five month period. This study was conducted with 4,023 adolescents between ages 12-17 years old.
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R03 Los Angeles Riot grant application
This National Institute of Mental Health R03 grant investigated the psychosocial impact of civil disturbance that occurred in Los Angeles in April 1992. The Medical University of South Carolina and Schulman, Ronca, and Bucuvalas, Inc. in New York City, conducted telephone interviews six to eight months after the civil disturbance with households in South Central Los Angeles, which were in close proximity to the Los Angeles riots.
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Oakland Hills Fire Assessment Instrument and Report
The Oakland Hills fire struck areas of Oakland, California on October 20, 1991. The impact of this fire were dramatic and devastating. Notable characteristics of the fire and its impact include: charring of more than 1,800 acres, destruction of more than 3,000 homes, property damage exceeding $5 billion, and deaths of 25 people. This assessment was funded as a supplement to ongoing work studying the Loma Prieta earthquake. The survey
instrument and a report are attached.
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Click here to view the Oakland Fire Instrument (.pdf)

Sample Assessment Instruments
This document draws directly from two assessment measures that were used in the aftermath of 1) Hurricane Hugo and 2) the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center Terrorist Attack
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