Research Projects
PI: Susan Saffel-Shrier
Sponsor: ACL
Dates: 08/2022 - 07/2027
This study is implementing a sustainable social determinates of health based malnutrition assessment and physical activity program, evaluating screening accuracy, measuring treatment effects, and gathering participant feedback to inform future interventions.
PI: Ivette Lopez
Sponsor: HRSA
Dates: 09/2022 - 08/2027
To enhance education and training of the health professional workforce in not yet reached urban and rural communities, so that they lead to a deep understanding of health imbalances. Utilizing academic institutions, community-based organizations, and other strategic partners seeking to increase perspectives among Utah’s health professionals, broaden the distribution of the healthcare workforce, enhance health care quality, and improve health care delivery to rural and not yet reached areas and populations.
PIs: Karen Schliep, Leslie McFarland (UA)
Sponsor: NHLBI
Dates: 05/2023 - 04/2028
Determine if endometriosis increases risk of a composite cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcome (and individual components) including incident cardiovascular events, chronic hypertension, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, and chronic kidney disease in a large population-based sample and well-phenotyped research cohort. Determine if risk of composite CVD outcome (Population and Research Cohorts) and components of composite (Population Cohort) vary by subtype. Determine if endometriosis increases risk of subclinical CVD, measured by CVD risk scores, cardiac CT scans, and brain MRIs compared to those without endometriosis in the Research Cohort.
PI: Kelly Baron
Co-Is: Matt Euler, Brian Baucom
Sponsor: NIA
Dates: 04/2023 - 03/2028
The goals of this project are to examine the effects of interdependence and concordance of sleep and circadian rhythms affect cognitive functioning among older adult couples in which one partner is experiencing cognitive decline.
PI: Pamela Martyn-Nemeth (UIC)
Co-I: Kelly Baron
Sponsor: University of Illinois (Prime: NHLBI)
Dates: 09/2024 - 08/2029
The goals of this study are to determine the mechanisms by which sleep regularity impacts glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors among adults with T1D.
PI: Jim VanDerslice
Co-I: Joemy Ramsay
Sponsor: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Prime: DoE)
Dates: 06/2024 - 11/2026
The purpose of this project is to develop computational capabilities for capturing the complex interactions and processes contributing to disease spread.
PI: Rachelle Caballos
Sponsor: Seattle Children's Hospital (Prime: DHHS)
Dates: 09/2023 - 8/2025
PI: Susan E. Cochella
Co-Is: Katie Fortenberry, Quang-Yuyen Nguyen, Laura Moreno, Erika Sullivan, Sonja Van Hala
Sponsor: HRSA
Dates: 12/2022 - 09/2027
Increase the number of primary care physicians who are trained in the prevention, identification, diagnosis, treatment, and referral of services for mental and behavioral health conditions. Also develop or expand partnerships with integrated behavioral health and primary care settings and community-based organizations to provide clinical rotations for at least one month in duration for primary care residents.
PI: Kim Shoaf
Sponsor: NSF
Dates: 08/2024 - 7/2027
This project puts forward interdisciplinary research that bridges civil engineering and disaster medicine to hone next-generation earthquake casualty models that enable the study of such interventions on infrastructure and people to reduce risks to health and life.
PI: Lisa Gren
Co-Is: Kim Shoaf, Jennifer Dailey-Provost
Sponsor: ASPPH
Dates: 10/2024 - 9/2025
A qualitative descriptive approach to gather information leading to recommendations for CC-level training and education that result in DIS certification.
PI: Lisa Gren
Co-Is: Kim Shoaf, Shahpar Najmabadi
Sponsor: HRSA
Dates: 6/2025 - 5/2030
Expand the number of schools and programs of public health (SPPH) offering Maternal and Child Health (MCH) training, increase the number and diversity of public health graduate students trained in MCH; and increase the MCH-specific capacity of faculty at SPPH that offer MCH training.
PIs: Kelly Baron, Carmela Alcantara (Columbia), Wendy Troxel (RAND)
Co-Is: Ivette Lopez, Brian Baucom, Matt Euler
Sponsor: NIA
Dates: 9/2023 - 8/2028
The goal of this study is adapting a couples based positive airway pressure (PAP adherence) and sleep health intervention for diverse heritage couples in which one partner has obstructive sleep apnea.
PI: Carl Whittaker
Co-Is: Kristen Stoesser, David Turok, Katie Fortenberry, Chaz Whitbeck
Sponsor: HRSA
Dates: 07/2021 - 06/2026
Maternal Health Capacity Building for the medically under supported in rural and urban Utah. This project is enhancing obstetrics care across the state through targeted initiatives supported by HRSA funding. These efforts include expanding FM/OB fellowships and rural rotation sites, integrating telehealth training, collaborating with UDOH Title V on opioid education, and fostering interdisciplinary learning with physician assistant trainees.
PI: Kim Shoaf
Co-I: Jim VanDerslice
Sponsor: University of Colorado - Denver (Prime: HRSA)
Dates: 7/2022 - 6/2027
Public Health workforce development.
PI: Kim Shoaf
Co-Is: Scott Benson, Christy Porucznik, Lisa Gren, Jim VanDerslice
Sponsor: CDC
Dates: 9/2024 - 9/2029
Develop the Region VIII Coordinating Body to improve public health preparedness and response within the region.
PIs: Jim VanDerslice, Matthew Samore
Co-Is: Scott Benson, Windy Tanner
Sponsor: CDC
Dates: 9/2022 - 1/2028
To use wastewater monitoring as a means of surveillance for antibiotic resistant infections and colonization in long-term care facilities.
PIs: Kelly Baron, Jennifer Duffecy (UIC)
Co-Is: Molly Conroy, Adam Bress
Sponsor: NINR
Dates: 9/2020 - 6/2026
The goal of this study aims to evaluate the efficacy of behavioral sleep extension intervention on sleep and CMD risk factors among patients with elevated blood pressure or hypertension.
PI: Joseph Stanford
Co-I: Shahpar Najmabadi
Sponsor: Women's Reproductive Health Foundation
Dates: 7/2024 - 6/2028
Establish an ongoing, self-sustaining, international registry for RRM treatments and outcomes, with a focus on live births.
PIs: Kelly Baron, Ivette Lopez, Sara Simonsen
Co-Is: Sharon Talboys, Molly Conroy, Jennifer Mundt
Sponsor: NIMHHD
Dates: 9/2023 - 4/2028
The goal of this project is to use a community-engaged, mixed-methods study to advance the understanding of how challenges to time use affect sleep and cardiometabolic health among women of diverse heritage and plan for gender and culture-informed interventions to promote sleep and cardiometabolic health.
PIs: Dusti Jones, Maureen Murtaugh
Sponsor: NCATS
Dates: 07/2023 - 06/2026
The major goals of this research are to: 1) identify protective, resilience promoting emotional processes that help historically under recognized tobacco users be more successful in their quit attempts, and 2) testing the effectiveness of just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) to facilitate these resilience-based emotional processes. Training goals of the K are to develop comprehensive understanding of: 1) health imbalances in health behavior and chronic disease prevention; 2) adaptive intervention science in translational science; and 3) tailoring, decision-making, and analyses for JITAIs.
PIs: Joseph Stanford, Christy Porucznik
Co-Is: Angelo Giardino, Scott Collingwood, Flory Nkoy, Jim VanDerslice, Yue Zhang
Sponsor: Office of the Director
Dates: 9/2023 - 5/2025
The overall goals of this project will be to investigate (1) the relationship between subfertility, maternal metabolic status, fertility treatment, breastfeeding, and asthma in offspring, (2) the relationship between indoor air particulate levels and perinatal outcomes, and (3) longitudinal preconception exposome mixtures and perinatal outcomes.
PIs: Joseph Stanford, Molly Conroy
Co-I: Mike Rubin
Sponsor: NHLBI
Dates: 2/2023 - 1/2028
The goal of the Utah StARR is to recruit and retain outstanding physicians during their residency training who have demonstrated potential and interest in pursuing careers as physician investigators focused on prevalent cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. Utah StARR is an interdisciplinary program that trains residents in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics and Gynecology to become physician investigators working across the spectrum of clinical, translational, and health services research.
PI: Jim VanDerslice
Co-I: Amanda Bakian
Sponsor: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Prime: DoE)
Dates: 8/2022 - 8/2025
The purpose of this project is to incorporate environmental data into suicide and opioid risk prediction models for the Veteran’s Administration.