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2024-2025 Seed Grant Recipients Fall 2024 Dr. Wilson Figueroa , College of Public Health, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Evaluation Studies, Dr. Joanne Patterson, College of Public Health, Epidemiology, Dr. JaNelle Ricks, Health Behavior and Health Promotion, INSIGHT: Investigating the Needs of Sexual and Gender Minorities to Guide Health Transformation Dr. Robert Hood , College of Public Health, Epidemiology, Dr. Courtney Lynch , College of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal & Paternal exposure to phenols and parabens and fetal/infant growth and development 2023-2024 Seed Grant Recipients Spring 2024 Dr. Maria Gallo , College of Public Health, Epidemiology, and Dr. JaNelle Ricks, College of Public Health, Health Behavior and Health Promotion, Pregnancy Care Seeking Survey Dr. Joyce Lee , College of Social Work, Dr. Cecilia Mengo , College of Social Work, Dr. Susan Yoon , College of Social Work, Identifying Child Welfare System Processes Associated with Maternal and Child Health Disparities Dr. Ashleigh LoVette , Department of Health Behavior and Health Promotion, Dr. Bridget Freisthler , College of Social Work, Identifying Pathways for Sexual and Behavioral Health Promotion Among Young People Affected by Parental Incarceration Dr. Allen Mallory , Human Sciences, Dr. Rin Reczek , Sociology, Recognizing the Racial Diversity in the Growing Number of Adolescents Identifying as Sexual Minorities Fall 2023 Dr. Gia Barboza Salerno Department of Social Work and Health Behavior and Health Promotion, Dr. Jacquelyn Meshelemiah , Department of Social Work, Dr. H.B. Franchino-Olsen , Department of Health Behavior and Health Promotion, Dr. Alison Norris , Department of Infectious Diseases and Medicine, Spatial Accessibility of Reproductive Health Care Services Following Dobbs V Jackson Women's Health Organization Dr. H.B. Franchino-Olsen , Department of Health Behavior and Health Promotion, Dr. Elizabeth Klein , College of Public Health, Dr. Franziska Meinck , School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Patterns of Polyvictimization among Young Children in Ohio: A Pilot Study to Investigate Complex Violence Patterns in the Lives of Children age 6–11 & their Feelings at Being Included in Sensitive Research Dr. Laura Prater , Department of Health Services Management & Policy, Dr. Jennifer Hefner , Department of Health Services Management & Policy, Establishing Pilot Data to Support Community Co-Development of Interventions to Prevent Pregnancy-Associated Firearm Injury & Death Dr. Sandy Wong , Department of Geography, Dr. Huyen Le , Department of Geography, Dr. Harvey Miller , Department of Geography, Geographic Disparities in Climate Change Vulnerabilities at the Intersection of Disability, Race, and Class 2022-2023 Seed Grant Recipients Spring 2023 Dr. Christopher Browning , Department of Sociology, Dr. Baldwin Way , Department of Psychology, Dr. Jodi Ford , College of Nursing, Dr. Bethany Boettner , Institute for Population Research, Racial Disparities in Adolescent CVD Risk Factors Dr. Ashley Landers , Department of Human Sciences, Dr. Bridget Freisthler , College of Social Work, Exploring the Impact of Geographic Factors on American Indian/Alaska Native Children’s Out-of-Home Placement Dr. Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan , Department of Psychology, Dr. Joyce Lee , College of Social Work, Dr. Rin Reczek , Department of Sociology, Beyond Mothers vs. Fathers: Gender-Inclusive Assessment of Parenting Behavior Fall 2022 Dr. Tansel Yilmazer , Department of Human Sciences, Dr. Lauren E. Jones , Department of Human Sciences and John Glenn College of Public Affairs, Dr. Alex Hollingsworth , Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, Impact of Pandemic Expansions to Nutrition Assistance on Healthy Food Spending Dr. Reanne Frank , Department of Sociology, Mexican-American Childbearing in the United States: What’s Policy Got to Do With It? 2021-22 Seed Grant Recipients Dr. Bernadette Hanlon , Knowlton School, Dr. Jason Reece , Knowlton School, Searching for Home and Health: Understanding Black Maternal and Child Health through the Return Migration Dr. Allen Mallory , Department of Human Sciences, Dr. Rin Reczek , Department of Sociology, Dr. Autumn Bermea , Department of Human Sciences, Feasibility of Collecting a National Longitudinal Study of Sexual and Gender Minorities. Dr. Parvati Singh , College of Public Health, Dr. Randolph Roth , Department of History, Impact of casino-based cash transfers on youth suicides among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina, USA Dr. Lauren Valentino , Department of Sociology, Dr. Cynthia Colen , Department of Sociology, Measuring Cultural Logics of Racism & Sexism: Refining our Understanding of How Discrimination Impacts Health & Well-Being Dr. Thomas F. McDow , Department of History, Local Histories of Global Health: The Kagera War and Tanzania’s First AIDS Cases Dr. Alison Norris , College of Public Health, Dr. Sarah Hayford , Department of Sociology, Dr. Marta Bornstein , College of Public Health, Dr. Jessica D. Gipson , Community Health Sciences (UCLA), Understanding the links between unintended fertility and infertility among Ohio women 2020-2021 Seed Grant Recipients Dr. Michael Vuolo , Department of Sociology, 2019-2020, The Effect of Natural Disasters on Drug Overdoses Dr. JaNelle Ricks , College of Public Health, Dr. Deena Chisolm , College of Public Health, Dr. Jolynn Pek , Department of Psychology, Dr. Anna Kerlek , Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Development and Testing of Digital Dating Abuse Measure for Sexual Minority Youth Dr. Naleef Fareed , Department of Biomedical Informatics, Dr. Kartik Venkatesh , Maternal Fetal Medicine at Wexner Medical Center, Dr. Abigail Norris Turner , Department of Internal Medicine, and Matthew Hoffman, Department of Internal Medicine, An Innovative Clinical Prediction Model for Postpartum Hemorrhage in Low and Middle-Income Countries 2019-2020 Seed Grant Recipients Dr. Meta Brown , Department of Economics, Dr. Rachel Dwyer , Department of Sociology, and Dr. Stephanie Moulton , John Glenn College of Public Affairs, Household Formation and Inequalities in Financial Coping in the COVID19 Crisis: Building Demographic Insight with New Credit Report Panel Data Dr. Kristi Williams , Department of Sociology, Intergenerational Transmission of Adverse Childhood Experiences: Identifying Pathways to Resilience Dr. Hui Zheng , Department of Sociology, Immigrant Health (Dis)advantage in the Labor Market Dr. Dean Lillard , Department of Human Sciences, Cigarette Smuggling, Taxes, and Substitution Between Cigarettes and E-Cigarettes Dr. Madhumita Dutta , Department of Geography, Dr. Arati Maleku , College of Social Work, and Binaya Subedi , College of Education and Human Ecology, Precarious Work & Mental Well-Being in New Spaces: A Transformative Mixed Methods Study among Bhutanese Refugees in Central Ohio Dr. Lisa Christian , College of Medicine and Dr. Claire Kamp-Dush , Department of Human Sciences. Establishment of the National Couple’s Health and Time Use Study Biorepository: NCHAT-BIO Dr. Rachel Dwyer , Department of Sociology. Overdue: Low-Income Debt, Child Poverty, and Family Stress in the United States Dr. Reanne Frank , Department of Sociology. Applying Machine Learning to Identify Immigrant Enclaves Dr. Jennifer Garner , School of Health and Rehab Sciences, Exploring the Intersection of Food Insecurity, Food Sourcing and Family Demography Dr. Rin Reczek , Department of Sociology. The Role of Motherhood Biographies in Midlife Women’s Health 2017-2018 Seed Grant Recipients Dr. Lauren Jones , Department of Human Sciences and Dr. Michael Betz , Department of Human Sciences. Industry Specific Job Loss and Opioid Death Dr. Susan Yoon , College of Social Work and Dr. Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan , Department of Human Sciences. Fathers, Child Maltreatment, and Adolescent Substance Use Dr. Elizabeth Root , Department of Geography, Dr. Catherine Calder , Department of Statistics, and Dr. Christopher Browning , Department of Sociology. Characterizing Communities Vulnerable to Opioid Addiction Dr. Samuel Clark , Department of Sociology. A General Mortality Modeling Framework in the Era of the SDGs Dr. Pamela Salsberry , College of Public Health, Dr. Laura Justice , Education Studies, Dr. Kelly Purtell , Department of Human Sciences, and Dr. Mihaiela Gugiu, Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy. Context Matters: The Social Determinants of Early Child Development 2016-2017 Seed Grant Recipients Dr. Joyce Chen, Department of Agricultural, Environmental & Development Economics. Migration and Climate Change: Environmental Vulnerability and Location Choice in Bangladesh Dr. Ayaz Hyder , College of Public Health, Division of Environmental Health Sciences. Effect of Lifetime Intergenerational Exposures to Environmental Toxicants and Sociodemographic Factors on Prenatal and Cognitive Outcomes in Children Dr. Kammi Schmeer , Department of Sociology and Dr. Barbara Piperata , Department of Anthropology. Predictors of Allostatic Load in Mothers and Children: Biological Evidence from a High-Stress Setting Dr. Julie Bower (no longer with OSU), College of Public Health, Dept of Epidemiology and Dr. Randi Foraker (no longer with OSU), College of Public Health, Epidemiology. Selection and Nonresponse Bias in Maternal Health Research Using the Electronic Health Record Dr. Cynthia Colen , Department of Sociology. Childhood Lead Exposure and Adolescent Risk-Taking Behaviors: Assessing a Potential Explanation for Recent Declines in Teen Childbearing Using Individual Level Data Dr. Amanda Robinson , Department of Political Science, Becoming Black: African Immigrant Integration in the United States Dr. Wendy Xu, College of Public, Division of Heath Services Management and Policy, Fertility of Low Income Women under the Affordable Care Act Dr. Hui Zheng, Department of Sociology.The Role of Selection in the College Education-Health Link 2015-2016 Seed Grant Recipients Drs. Michael Betz and Anastasia Snyder , Department of Human Sciences. Demographic and family change in shale communities Dr. Catherine Calder , Department of Statistics and Dr. Christopher Browning , Department of Sociology. Respondent driven sampling for co-location networks Dr. Jodi Ford , College of Nursing. Gender differences in the effects of adverse environments on physiologic stress Dr. Maria Gallo , College of Public Health, Epidemiology and Dr. Lisa Keder College of Medicine. Initiation of progestin-only contraception immediately postpartum among breastfeeding women Dr. Kurt Lavetti , Department of Economics. Dynamic inefficiencies in health investments over the life-cycle Dr. Rin Reczek , Department of Sociology. Parent child health across the transition to adulthood Dr. Jennifer Syvertsen , Department of Anthropology. Exploring the syndemic of substance use, violence and HIV/STI risk among female sex workers in Kisumu, Kenya 2014-2015 Seed Grant Recipients 2013-2014 Seed Grant Recipients Dr. Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Department of Political Science. Methodological advances and applications in network modeling: Accounting for heterogeneity in health behavior data Dr. Mark Moritz, Department of Anthropology. Migration and household water management practices: An interdisciplinary examination of cholera outbreaks in urban Cameroon Dr. Abigail Norris-Turner, College of Public Health, Epidemiology, College of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Dr. Alison Norris , College of Public Health, Epidemiology. Female genital schistosomiasis, HIV and infertility among rural Malawian women Dr. Anastasia Snyder , Department of Human Sciences. Accessing confidential microdata from the NLSY studies Dr. Kammi Schmeer , Department of Sociology. Family contexts and physiological stress in children Dr. Ningchuan Xiao , Department of Geography. Computational approaches to exploring the complexity of spatial aggregation Dr. Hui Zheng, Department of Sociology. Obesity and mortality: Early origins, selection, and trajectories 2012-2013 Seed Grant Recipients Drs. Donna Bobbitt-Zeher , and Douglas Downey , Department of Sociology. Are there long term consequences to growing up with few siblings? Sibship size in childhood and social life in adulthood Dr. Randi Foraker , College of Public Health, Epidemiology. Neighborhood socioeconomic status and 30-day readmission among heart failure patients Dr. Jodi Ford , College of Nursing. Linking biological and social pathways to adolescent health Drs. Reanne Frank and Kristi Williams , Department of Sociology. Mexican American fertility: A cause for concern Dr. Dana Haynie , Department of Sociology. Residential proximity and adolescent friendship dynamics Dr. Bo Lu , College of Public Health, Biostatitics. Causal inference in the effect of a dynamic treatment process with applications to reproductive health Dr. Alison Norris , College of Public Health, Epidemiology and Dr. Abigail Norris-Turner, College of Public Health, Epidemiology, College of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases. Choices and constraints in reproductive health decision making among Malawian women Dr. Hui Zheng , Department of Sociology. Heterogenity in mortality dispersion in the developed countries 2011-2012 Seed Grant Recipients Dr. Paul Bellair , Department of Sociology. Race, socio-economic disadvantage, drug use and selling in a high risk sample Dr. Cynthia Colen , Department of Sociology. Racial disparities in mental health outcomes: Possible explanations for unexpected advantages among African American adolescents Dr. Reanne Frank , Department of Sociology. Contemporary US immigrants and residential settlement patterns Dr. Trevon Logan , Department of Economics. Network analysis of the market for male sex work Dr. Liana Sayer, Department of Sociology. Time use, inequality and health - not displayed, no longer with OSU Dr. Anastasia Snyder , Department of Human Sciences. Migration during emerging adulthood Dr. Xinyi Xu , Department of Statistics. Calibrated bayes factors for model choice and predictive model averaging 2010-2011 Seed Grant Recipients Dr. Rachel Dwyer , Department of Sociology. Generation debt Drs. Claire Kamp-Dush , and Sarah Schoppe-Sullivan , Department of Human Sciences. Genetic and environmental contributions to infant socioemotional health and stress responses Dr. Paula Song, College of Public Health. Examining the effects of cost sharing on utilization and disparities in children's medicaid and CHIP , no longer with OSU Dr. Richard Steckel , Department of Economics. Preparing a P01 on global history of health for NIH Dr. Jeremy Wallace, Department of Political Science. China's management of urbanization: Migration restrictions before and after the global financial crisis , no longer with OSU Drs. Dana Haynie and Kristi Williams , Department of Sociology. Influence of peer networks on health risk behaviors Dr. Christopher Browning , Department of Sociology. The Ohio Study 2009-2010 Seed Grant Recipients 2008-2009 Seed Grant Recipients 2007-2008 Seed Grant Recipients Dr. Paul Bellair , Department of Sociology. Neighborhood context and the causes and consequences of street use Dr. Claudia Buchmann , Department of Sociology. Growing gender gap in education among African Americans Dr. Joyce Chen , Department of Agriculture Education. Migration and social networks Dr. Jeffrey Cohen , Department of Anthropology. An international interdisciplinary approach to reducing lead contamination in traditional foods among Mexican migrants in the US and communities of origin: The contributions of epidemiology, anthropology, and community development. Dr. Edward Crenshaw, Department of Sociology. Social environments and low fertility Dr. Claire Kamp-Dush , Department of Human Sciences. Family structure change and the health and well-being of adults and children Dr. Audrey Light , Department of Economics. Divorce as risky behavior Dr. Patricia Reagan , Department of Economics, Dr. Pamela Salsberry , Department of Nursing, Dr. Elizabeth Cooksey , Department of Sociology and Dr. Bo Lu , College of Public Health, Biostatistics. Intergenerational influences on birth outcomes Dr. Pamela Salsberry , Department of Nursing, Dr. Patricia Reagan , Department of Economics, Dr. Elizabeth Cooksey , Department of Sociology and Dr. Bo Lu , College of Public Health, Biostatistics. Early menarche and problem behaviors in adolescent girls 2006-2007 Seed Grant Recipients Dr. Jeffrey Cohen , Department of Anthropology. Cultural meaning and nutritional value Dr. Rachel Dwyer , Department of Sociology. Dr. Liana Sayer, Department of Sociology. Neighborhood mediated effects Dr. Joseph Kaboski, Department of Economics. Analysis of impacts of large scale credit program- not displayed, no longer with OSU Dr. Jinkook Lee, Department of Consumer Science. Cross-national studies of aging, health, and socio-economic status -not displayed, no longer with OSU Drs. Lung-fei Lee and Patricia Reagan , Department of Economics. Evaluating endogenous treatment effects when the decision to treat is made at an aggregate level and outcomes are observed at the individual level Dr. Bo Lu , Department of Biostatistics. Dr. Xinyi Xu , Department of Statistics. Casual inference in observational studies Dr. Alan Murray, Department of Geography. Exploration of spatio-temporal variation- not displayed, no longer with OSU Dr. Richard Steckel , Department of Economics. Global history of health organizational conference Dr. Yongmin Sun , Department of Sociology, Mansfield Campus. Short and long term effects of parental divorce 2005-2006 Seed Grant Recipients
