The Center for Demography and Ecology is pleased to announce a seed grant competition to support pilot research for future grant applications to NIH. Request for Proposals: Deadline May 15, 2023 Research Focus Proposals on a wide range of topics related to the population sciences are invited. Of particular interest is research that address …
Deb Ehrenthal and Lonnie Berger received R01 funding from NICHD for their project on “Prenatal Opioid Exposure: Birth, Health, Socioeconomic, and Educational Outcomes of Mothers and Their Children.” The research team has assembled a database of ~800,000 live births (including ~350,000 Medicaid-covered live births) in Wisconsin from 2008-2018. This project will link this enormous database to …
About Funder Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Grant Number R01 HD088506-03 Principal Investigator Paula Fomby | University of Michigan | Population Studies Center Investigators Marcy Carlson | University of Wisconsin–Madison | Department of Sociology Narayan Sastry | University of Michigan | Population Studies Center Robert F. Schoeni | University of …
About Funder Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Grant Number R21 HD087882-02 Principal Investigator Jason Fletcher | University of Wisconsin–Madison | La Follette School of Public Affairs, Department of Sociology Summary The current levels of childhood obesity are unacceptable and worrisome. While emerging research suggests that social and peer influence …
About Funder National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Grant Number K01 AI132741-01A1 Principal Investigator Malia Jones | University of Wisconsin–Madison | Applied Population Lab Summary Voluntary refusal of recommended childhood vaccines is becoming more common. Moreover, spatial clustering of unvaccinated children likely introduces epidemic outbreak risk that extends far beyond what population averages suggest. …
About Funder Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Grant Number R01 HD095661-02 Principal Investigator Jenny Higgins | University of Wisconsin–Madison | Department of Gender and Women’s Studies Summary High rates of contraceptive dissatisfaction, switching, and discontinuation in the US demand new approaches to contraceptive acceptability and promotion. Behavioral models of contraceptive …
About Funder National Science Foundation Grant Number 1658353 Principal Investigator Mike Massoglia | University of Wisconsin–Madison | Department of Sociology Co-Principal Investigators Malia Jones | University of Wisconsin–Madison | Applied Population Lab Jenna Nobles | University of Wisconsin–Madison | Department of Sociology Summary The project is a study of the violence-migration relationship in communities across Latin America and the United …
About Funder Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Grant Number R03 HD092818-02 Principal Investigators Marco Rangel | Duke University | Sanford School of Public Policy Dhavan Shah | University of Wisconsin–Madison | School of Journalism and Mass Communication Investigators Jenna Nobles | University of Wisconsin–Madison | Department of Sociology Amar …
About Funder Spencer Foundation | U.S. Department of Education, Institute for Education Sciences | Wisconsin Center for Education Research Principal Investigator Eric Grodsky | University of Wisconsin–Madison | Department of Sociology Co-Principal Investigators Elizabeth Vaade | Madison Metropolitan School District | Research & Program Evaluation Office Caroline Racine Gilles | Madison Metropolitan School District | Integrated Supports and Accelerated Learning Summary The transition into five-year-old kindergarten (5K) can …