Our goal is to advance national-scope initiatives that integrate technology to improve and increase access to crime victim services. Victim service practitioners are increasingly taking advantage of the ubiquity and […]
Strengthen the Evidence for Maternal and Child Health Programs
This project assists State Title V MCH programs in incorporating available scientific evidence in developing State Action Plans and responding to national and state performance measures.
Maryland Maternal Health Innovation Program
The overarching goal of the project is to improve maternal health quality and outcomes throughout Maryland.
National Maternal and Child Health Data Resource Initiative
The goal of the Data Resource Center is to provide essential maternal and child health data at the national, regional, and state-level, to inform and enhance maternal and child health […]
Adapting and testing the myPlan app to prevent dating violence with adolescents
Evidence suggests that adolescents want and need timely, accessible, interactive, personal, and private health information, including information and resources on dating and casual/hook-up relationships. Adolescents seeking relationship information, advice and […]
Methods and Applications for Massive One-mode and Bipartite Social Networks
This research project will advance methods of estimation and inference for large-scale network models. The modeling of network data has important applications in many areas, including sociology, economics, marketing, and […]
Developing a PrEP Adherence Intervention Targeting At-Risk and Substance Using Women
We aim to develop and assess the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy on adherence of a community-informed tenofovir/emticitrabine (TDF/FTC) pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) engagement intervention among street-based female sex workers (FSWs) […]
Causal mediation methods for studying mechanisms in mental health
In mental health research, it is important to understand the mechanisms underlying the effects of interventions, for example whether cognitive/behavioral factors mediate the effect of a treatment for youth with […]
A structural HIV prevention intervention targeting high-risk women
Three decades into the HIV epidemic, high HIV/STI rates persist among FSWs throughout the world, and research on this population in the U.S. is scarce. FSWs experience a unique set […]
Robust Methods for Polygenic Analysis
Modern genome-wide association studies have unequivocally demonstrated that complex traits are extremely polygenic, with each individual trait potentially involving thousands to tens of thousands of genetic variants. In this project, […]