SMALL GRANTS

2009 Research Project Awards

Cleopatra Abdou, RWJF HSS Scholar, The Obama Effect: Will the First African American First Family Affect Family Structure, Health and Well-Being in African Americans?

Sarah Burgard, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Mental Health Among Latino and Asian American Immigrants: the Roles of Social Mobility and Sociocultural Factors

Michelle Debbink, Doctoral Candidate, Health Management and Policy, Investigating Local Neighborhood Segregation and Low Birthweight in Metropolitan Chicago

J. Richard Pilsner, RWJF HSS Scholar, Stress and Epigenetic Changes in Cardiovascular Disease

Whitney Robinson, RWJF HSS Scholar, The Contributions of Parity and Dieting Behaviors to Sex Differences in the Associations between Socioeconomic Position and Obesity Risk in US Black and White Young Adults

Kevin Stange, RWJF HPR Scholar, Health Management and Policy, Has the Growth of Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care Improved Access, Affordability, and Health?

Monica Uddin, Assistant Research Scientist, Epidemilogy, Social Context and the Epigenetics of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Christopher Wildeman, RWJF HSS Scholar, Imprisonment and Population Health, 1960-2005

Mark Wilson, Professor, Epidemiology, Social Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: Developing Theory and Testing Relevance

2008 Research Project Awards

Phoenix Do, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, Marginal Structural Modeling: Towards Recovering Causal Estimates of Neighborhood Poverty on Mortality Risk

Amar Hamoudi, RWJF HSS Scholar, Assets and Stress: Using the Housing Market to Explore Health Effects of Wealth

Ashley Hazel, Doctoral Candidate, School of Natural Resources & Epidemiology, Sexually Transmitted Disease, Ecology and Reproductive Behavior in a Southern African Pastoral Community

Joyce Lee, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics-Child Health Evaluation and Research, Social Network Influences on Adolescent Obesity

Briana Mezuk, RWJF HSS Scholar, Speaking Truth to Power? The Influence of Policy Debate on High School Educational Outcomes in an Urban Public School System

J. Richard Pilsner, RWJF HSS Scholar, Epigenetics and the Intergenerational Transmission of Disease Susceptibility: Maternal Lead and Stress and Early-life Events

2007 Research Project Awards

Jennifer Ailshire & Michael Bader, Doctoral Candidates, Institute for Social Research, Spatial Dynamics of the Local Food and Recreation Environment: An Examination of Measurement and Effects of the Neighborhood Built Environment

Amy Auchincloss, Post Doctoral Fellow, Epidemiology, Novel Approaches to Understanding Environmental Determinants of Health Behaviors: Using Agent-Based Models to Study the Relation Between Spatial Access to Health Food Stores and Diet

Martha Bailey, RWJF HPR Scholar, Health Management and Policy, The Impact of Family Planning Programs on the Health and Well-Being of US Women and Children, 1960-1980

Magdalena Cerda, RWJF HSS Scholar, Neighborhood Context and Youth Health Behavior Outcomes from Adolescents to Emerging Adulthood

Jennifer Dowd, RWJF HSS Scholar, Under the Skin: Understanding the Links Between Socioeconomic Status, Stress, Immune Function and Health

Sarah Gollust, Doctoral Candidate, Health Management and Policy, Influence of Media Frames of the Determinants of Diabetes on Public Health Policy Outcomes

Kenneth Resinow, Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education, The Influence of Black Ethnic Identity on Telephone-Administered Health Survey

Margaret Shih, Associate Professor, Psychology, Health Risk Behaviors of Multiracial and Monoracial Young Adult

Beth Tarini, Lecturer, Division of General Pediatrics, Medical School, Assessing the Impact of Expanded Newborn Screening in Michigan

Katrina Walsemann, Post Doctoral Fellow, Population Studies Center, Still Separate and Unequal: the Impact of School Inequity on the Mental Health and Health Behaviors of Adolescents

2006 Research Project Awards

Christine Cigolle, Family Medicine, Medical School, Relationship of Frailty to Multimorbidity and Disability

Philippa Clark, Survey Research Center, Schools, Neighborhoods, Peers, and Adolescent Cigarette Smoking

John A. Cowan, Jr., RWJF HSS Scholar, Adverse Health Messages in Mass Media: a Blockbuster Force within Health and Society

Craig Hadley, RWJF HSS Scholar, and Sandro Galea, Professor, Epidemiology, Social Context and the Consequences of Disasters: a Mixed Methods Approach to Identifying Underlying Vulnerabilities and Capacities

Maria Muzik, Lecturer, School of Social Work, The Mother-Baby Study: Consequences of Maternal PTSD for Parenting and Infant Stress Regulation among African-American Women

Theresa Osypuk, RWJF HSS Scholar, The Geography of Opportunity: Metropolitan Racial Inequality, Institutionalized Racism, and Individual Birthweight

Nalini Ranjit, Research Investigator, Epidemiology, and Marie O'Neill, RWJF HSS Scholar, Socio-Economic Position, Air Pollution and Infant Mortality in the United States

Cameron Shultz, Doctoral Candidate, Health Management and Policy, Cross-Cultural Competency, Patient-Provider Partnerships, and Improving Health Outcomes for African Americans with Diabetes

Carla Talarico, Doctoral Candidate, Epidemiology, Mutlilevel Determinants of Pneumococcal Carriage: Implications for Population Vaccination

Sacoby Wilson, RWJF HSS Scholar, County-level Structural and Environmental Factors that Contribute to Population Health and Health Disparities

Yange Xue, Research Investigator, Health Behavior & Health Education, Neighborhood Context and Youth Health Behavior Outcomes from Adolescent to Emerging Adulthood

2005 Research Project Awards

Allison Aiello, RWJF HSS Scholar, Social Pathways in the Infectious Determinants of Cognitive Impairment: Herpes and Dementia Among US Latinos

Sarah Burgard, RWJF HSS Scholar, Nonstandard Work and Population Health

Niko Kaciroti, Assistant Research Scientist, Center for Human Growth and Development, Developing Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Models for Analyzing Cortisol Circadian Rhythem Using Bayesian Framework: Application to a Depression Study

Sharon Kardia, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Genomics, Racial/Ethnic Identity, and Population Health: Creating New Bridges and Sharing Resources

Joanna Kempner, Research Fellow, RWJ Health Policy Program, Assessing the Relationship Between Political Controversy and Research Agendas

Catherine Kim, Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine & OB/Gyn, Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Mortality

Justin McCrary, Assistant Professor, Ford School of Public Policy and Department of Economics, and Heather Royer, Research Fellow, Health Management & Policy, Understanding the SES Gradient in Health: The Causal Impact of Education on Mortality

Melissa VanDyke, Doctoral Candidate, Epidemiology, Multilevel Socio-Ecology of Polyparasitism

2004 Research Project Awards

Allison Aiello, RWJF HSS Scholar, Epidemiological Relationship Between Herpes and Dementia

Jeffrey Bingenheimer, Doctoral Candidate, Health Behavior & Health Education, Mortality and the Spread of Infectious Diseases in Human Populations

Nick King, RWJF HSS Scholar, Neighborhood Context, Taste, and Obesity: A Pilot Project

Julie Lumeng, Center for Human Growth & Dev, Food-Related Language in Low-Income Preschool Children of Diverse Ethnicity: A Potential Point for Obesity Prevention?

Jonathan Metzl, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Protest Psychosis: Race, Stigma, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

Nalini Ranjit, Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, Comparative Analysis of the Temporal Trends in Stroke and CHD Mortality