Specific aimsAim 1: Curate a unique open access COVID-19 CFR database leveraging HPC data hub, natural language processing (NLP) and CORD-19. Relevant data, e.g. CFR, COVID-19 cases and deaths, age, […]
Specific AimsEvidence on the effectiveness of different containment measures is urgently needed to informsubsequent policy responses. The heterogeneous pandemic situations and differentiated policyresponses across the country presents an opportunity for […]
Specific Aims:1. Validate two parallel measures of each US county’s success in controlling COVID19: A) Peak incidence in Cases and Deaths per 100,000; B) Gap between time in days from […]
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 […]
Obesity in a young child can not only result in short-term social, psychological, and health effects but also increases the probability to obesity later n life with many possible accompanying […]
This proposal has two aims. The first is to conduct an experiment varying the offer of a housing voucher within the national Section 8 Housing Program and to test how […]
Syphilis is increasing in the United States (U.S.) and Baltimore has one of the most severe epidemics among Black gay, bisexual and men who have sex with men (MSM). The […]
The primary goal of this research is to assess the effects of housing on low- and moderate-income families with children using a population-based, econometrically-oriented approach. Our specific aims are to […]
Intimate partner violence (IPV), including violence in dating relationships (dating violence, DV) is a widespread and serious public health problem. Among U.S. female IPV survivors, 47.1% report their first abusive […]
Growing evidence indicates that maternal psychosocial stressors during pregnancy, e.g. depression, anxiety, and stressful life events are related to poor birth outcomes. However, the epigenetic mechanisms underlying associations between maternal […]
