Measuring Health Equity in Public Health Practice; PIs: Ross Brownson (Brown), Douglas Luke (Brown), Sara Malone (Medicine), Stephanie Mazzucca-Ragan (Brown)
Collaborative for Nature and Health; PIs: Amy Eyler (Brown), Derek Hoeferlin (Sam Fox)
Ultrasensitive Point of Care HIV-1 Antigen/Antibody test using Plasmonic-enhanced Lateral Flow Assay; PIs: Ige George (Medicine), Srikanth Singamaneni (McKelvey)
Antimicrobial Coatings for Biomedical Devices by Atomic Layer Deposition: Innovations in Infection and Control and Public Health, PIs: Xiaowei Li (Medicine) and Xinhua Liang (McKelvey)
Developing a Public Health Policy Sustainable Framework; PIs: Sarah Moreland-Russell (Brown) and Karen Joynt Maddox (Medicine)
Rental Support for Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia: Assessing Early Evidence of Impact on Self-Reliance, Mental Health, and Social Selection for Female-Headed Households; PIs: Lindsay Stark (Brown) and Deanna Barch (A&S)
NutureTrack: Assessing Consumer Behavior and Business Impact of Food Prescription Programs; PIs: Rachel Tabak (Brown), Lingxiu Dong (Olin), Mark Huffman (Medicine)
A Pilot Study to Examine the Impact of Menstrual Practice Needs (MPNs) on Education Attainment among Adolescent Girls in the Southern Region of Uganda; PIs: Nhial Tutlam (Brown) and Candice Woolfolk (Medicine)
Digital Transformation
Developing a proof-of-concept haptic interface system for human/computer partnership driving physical activity and movement; PIs: Jonathan Hanahan (Sam Fox), Shantanu Chakrabartty (McKelvey), Chuan Wang (McKelvey)
A new interdisciplinary approach to an old problem: population dynamics as an emergent property of individuals; PIs: Kerry Kornfeld (Medicine), Ross Hammond Brown
Microfluidic Models for Analyzing BTTS Thrombosis: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Pediatric Cardiovascular Care; PIs: Edon Rabinowitz (Medicine), David Bark (Medicine), Guy Genin (McKelvey)
Environmental Research
Integration of genomic, archaeological and fine-grained morphological and nutritional analyses to explore Millet domestication and its future potential in food security; PIs: Xinyi Liu (A&S), Kenneth Olsen (A&S), Tao Ju (McKelvey), Lora Iannotti (Brown)
Toward Next-Generation Urban Biodiversity Mapping: Field Biology Meets Artificial Intelligence in St. Louis; PIs: Jonathan Losos (A&S) and Nathan Jacobs (McKelvey)
2023-2024 Cycles
Fall 2023
AI for Examining and Predicting Family Involvement with Child Project System Digital Transformation and Public Health Co-PIs: Eunhye Ahn, Brown School; Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, McKelvey School
Using Mobile Health Technology to Assess Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy Digital Transformation Co-PIs: Jacob Greenberg, School of Medicine; Caitlin Kelleher, McKelvey School; Brian Johnson, School of Medicine
Improving Student Mental and Behavioral Health in High-Poverty Schools: A Community-based Participatory Research Project Environmental Research, Digital Transformation, Research Impacting the St. Louis Community Co-PIs: Jason Jabbari, Brown School; Kelly Harris, School of Medicine
Developing a contracting measurement tool for decisionmakers who are scaling up evidence-based treatments in publicly funded children’s mental health Public Health Co-PIs: Rebecca Lengnick-Hall, Brown School; Elvin Geng, School of Medicine; Nicolas Argyres, Arts & Sciences
The Impact of Economic Inequality on Chronic Disease Risk Factors Environmental Research and Public Health Co-PIs: Stephen Roll, Brown School; Yung Chun, Brown School; Kia Davis, School of Medicine; George-Levi Gayle, Arts & Sciences
Asylum Support Initiative: Providing forensic evaluations through a community-academic partnership Public Health, Global Health, and Research Impacting St. Louis Community Co-PIs: Kim Thuy Seelinger, Brown School; Julia Lopez, School of Medicine; Katie Meyer, School of Law
Measuring Spatial Inequities in urban communities Environmental Research and Public Health Co-PIs: Rodrigo Siqueria Reis, Brown School; Nathan Jacobs, McKelvey School
Leveraging AI to optimize mHealth’s Impact for reducing opioid-related overdose deaths in Missouri Digital Transformation, Public Health, and Research Impacting the St. Louis Community Co-PIs: Hannah Szlyk, School of Medicine; Chenguang Wang, McKelvey School
Smart Kitchen to Support Independence for People with Subjective Cognitive Decline Digital Transformation, Public Health Co-PIs: Lisa Tabor Connor, School of Medicine; Chenyang Lu, McKelvey School; M. Carolyn Baum, School of Medicine
The environmental sources of the infant nasal microbiome Environment Research and Public Health Co-PIs: Leyao Wang, School of Medicine; Jian Wang, Engineering
Spring 2024
Cognitive Landscapes: Integrating Minecraft and AI for Enhanced Behavioral Analysis Digital Transformation Co-PIs: Dennis Barbour, McKelvey School of Engineering; John Zempel, School of Medicine
Neurogenic modeling of acute fentanyl toxicity in Drosophila Public Health Co-PIs: Yehuda Ben-Shahar, Arts & Sciences; Jose Moron-Concepcion, School of Medicine
Migration, Urbanization, and the Microbiomes of the Galapagos Giant Tortoises Environmental Research Co-PIs: Fangqiong Ling, McKelvey School of Engineering; Jonathan Losos, Arts & Sciences
Adapting novel wearable postpartum hemorrhage sensors and device workflow for a pilot study in Nigeria Global Health Co-PIs: Christine O’Brien, McKelvey School of Engineering; Mark Huffman, School of Medicine; Zainab Mahmoud, School of Medicine
Tia Zaa Bohima! (Let’s Learn Together): Making risks associated with child labor visible in schools and communities in Northern Ghana Global Health Co-PIs: Ozge Sensoy Bahar, Brown School, Penina Acayo-Laker, Sam Fox School
Understanding the preferences for quality of inpatient psychiatric care among patients, family, and providers, and the public using a discreet choice experiment Public Health Co-PIs: Morgan Shields, Brown School; Derek Brown, Brown School; Kevin Xu, School of Medicine
Hypertension and social determinants of health (SDOH) in the Greater St. Louis Area Public Health Co-PIs: Lindsay Underhill, Brown School; Jenna Ditto, McKelvey School of Engineering
Understanding the Interplay of Co2 capture and air quality Environmental Research Co-PIs: Lu Xu, McKelvey School of Engineering; Sophia Hayes, Arts & Sciences
