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, […]
Monitoring Local Responses to COVID-19 Pandemic Using Real-time Big Data
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 […]
COVID-19 in US Counties: Can Public Health Bend the Curve
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 […]
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 […]
Early Life Determinants of Obesity in U.S. Urban Low Income Minority Birth Cohort
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 […]
How Housing Vouchers Affect Biology and Health
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 […]
B’SAFE – Black MSM Study for Syphilis Assessment Focused on Elimination
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 […]
Housing Effects on Children’s Development
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 […]
Reducing Disparities in Health and Safety for Young Sexual Minority Women in Abusive Relationships
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 […]
Prenatal Mulit-Level Stressors and Alternations in Fetal and Maternal Epigenomes
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 […]