Past Seed Grant Awards

An Examination of Physical Activity and Sleep Quality in Low-Income Households Using Actigraphy Data

• Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (Teachers College)
• Diana Hernández (Sociomedical Sciences)

Digital Phenotyping and Intensive Longitudinal Methods for Examining Multi-Level Social Connectedness, Mental Health, and Alcohol/Substance Use among Adolescents in New York City

• Alissa Davis (Social Work)

Girls and Early Markers of Autism: Diagnostic Inequalities in Girls At-Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder

• Sylvie Goldman (Neurology)

Implementing Web-based Psychoeducation Trainings for Community Leaders in Kenya and Brazil in response to COVID-19

• Samantha Winter (Social Work)

Model Minority No More? Changing Perceptions and
the Social and Economic Impact of Rising Anti-Asian Racism Fueled by COVID-19

• Neeraj Kaushal (Social Work)
• Yao Lu (Sociology)

Mothers’ Childhood Trauma, Oxytocin, and Infant Development in a Disadvantaged Population in Argentina 

• Pamela Scorza (Obstetrics and Gynecology)
• Catherine Monk (Obstetrics and Gynecology)

Staying Close When Apart: The Value of “Information Communication” during the COVID-19 Pandemic 

• Belinda Archibong (Barnard College)

The impact of maternal race and psychosocial stress in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic on mother and newborn sleep health 

• Dani Dumitriu (Pediatrics)
• Catherine Monk (Obstetrics and Gynecology)

The impact of gestational diabetes mellitus and gestational hypertension on neurodevelopmental outcomes in the context of maternal stress and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic

• William Fifer (Pediatrics)
• Carmela Alcántara (Social Work)
• Noelia M. Zork (Obstetrics and Gynecology)

Postpartum Overdose and HIV/STI: Unpacking Common Drivers and Prevention Opportunities for Postpartum Women who Use Opioids in NYC 

• Brooke West (Social Work)

Preparing a COVID-19 Module for the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey

• Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (Teachers College)
• Elizabeth Ananat (Barnard College)

Communities of Opportunity: Piloting Methods for an Ecological Assessment of Housing-based Health Interventions in Affordable Housing Settings

• Diana Hernandez (Sociomedical Sciences)
• Virginia Rauh (Population and Family Health)
• Charles Branas (Epidemiology)

Operation Parenting: A Social Group Model among Immigrant Parents of Children with Behavior Problems

• Qin Gao (Social Work)
• Fuhua Zhai (Fordham)

Is social media affecting adolescent mental health? Piloting machine learning techniques to identify at-risk youth in national samples of adolescents from 2009 through 2018

• Katherine M. Keyes (Epidemiology)
• Mark L. Hatzenbuehler (Sociomedical Sciences)
• Underemployment and Racial/Ethnic Inequality among College Graduates
• Yao Lu (Sociology)
• Kriste Krstovski (Data Science Institute and Computer Science)

Resilience in migrant youth exposed to violence and hunger, an examination of participants in the CAMINANDO study

• Manuela Orjuela (Epidemiology)

• Lindsay Stark (Population and Family Health)

• Maria Marti (Population and Family Health)

• Xinhua Liu (Biostatistics)

• Alexandra Restrepo Henao (Doctoral Candidate)

• Ezra Susser (Epidemiology)
• Charlie Branas (Epidemiology)


Service Utilization and Stress of Chinese Dementia Caregivers in New York City

• Jinyu Liu (Social Work)

Innovating Youth Gang Violence Prevention with Natural Language Processing and Qualitative Analysis

• Desmond Patton (Social Work)

Women, Men, Work, Family: Gender Inequality in Time Use in Transitional China

• Qin Gao (Social Work)
• Fuhua Zhai (Fordham)

Migrant-related stressors, mental health, substance use and HIV risk behavior among long distance truck drivers in Zambia: A cross-sectional study

• Lynn Michalopoulos (Social Work)
• Fred Ssewemala (Social Work)
• Nomagugu Ncube (Migration Health Unit)
• Simona Simona (University of Zambia)
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When ‘Opportunity’ Moves to You: Assessing Outcomes for Control Group Residents of the Moving to Opportunity Study in Gentrifying Neighborhoods

• Lance Freeman (Urban Planning)
• Valerie Stahl (Research Assistant)
• Biological Plasticity and Childhood Academic Resilience following Early-life Adversity
• Nim Tottenham (Psychology)
• Frances Champagne (Psychology)

Comprehensive Early Childhood Parenting Supports and Children’s Health and Development

• Christopher Wimer (Social Work)

Structural stigma and allostatic load among American sexual minorities

• Mark Hatzenbuehler (Sociomedical Sciences)
• Robert Juster (Postdoctoral Researcher)

Placental biomarkers of prenatal hormone exposure and neurodevelopmental risk

• Frances Champagne (Psychology)
• Martha Welch (Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Pathology & Cell Biology)
• Ronald Wapner (Obstetrics and Gynecology)

Developmental trajectories of executive function and academic achievement in the early elementary school

• Anne Conway (Social Work)

#Racism: Examining cultural racism and multiple stress responses in the context of contemporary public media

• Courtney D. Cogburn (Social Work)

Accelerated maturation in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study: Relation to timing, type and severity of in-home stressors

• Cindy Hagan (Psychology)
• Nim Tottenham (Psychology)
• Frances Champagne (Psychology)
• Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (Teachers College)
• The Bureaucratization of Undergraduate Sex
• Constance A. Nathanson (Sociomedical Sciences)
• Shamus Kahn (Sociology)

Columbia University Research Consortium on Autism Spectrum and Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders

• Peter Bearman (Sociology)
• Jane Waldfogel (Social Work)
• William Fifer (Psychiatry and Pediatrics)

Son Preference in East and South Asian Diaspora

• Neeraj Kaushal (Social Work)

Socioeconomic Status, Bilingualism & Language Environment

• Kimberly Noble (Pediatrics)
• Natalie Brito (Postdoctoral Research Scholar)

Understanding Parental Incarceration Through Survey and Administrative Data

• Amanda Geller (Sociomedical Sciences)

Health, Stress and Decision Making

• Matthew Neidell (Health Policy and Management)
• David Rahman (University of Minnesota)

Integrating Mobile Technology in Youth Savings: A Pilot Test for Kenya

• Fred Ssewamala (Social Work & International Affairs)

The Impact of the Haitian Elite on Development

• Suresh Naidu (Economics and International Public Affairs)
• James Robinson (Harvard)

History, Culture, and Power in Global Health

• Amy Fairchild (Sociomedical Sciences)
• Richard Parker (Sociomedical Sciences)
• The Interactive Effects of State, City and School Physical Activity and Nutrition Policies with Student Genotype on Childhood Obesity
• Jason Fletcher (RWJ HSS)
• Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (Teachers College & College of Physicians and Surgeons)

Biological Embedding of Social Stress in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Populations

• Mark L. Hatzenbuehler (RWJ HSS)
• Bruce Link (Epidemiology)
• Katie A. McLaughlin (Pediatrics)

How Immigrants and their Children Fare at Different Destinations

• Yao Lu (Department of Sociology)
• Neeraj Kaushal (School of Social Work)
• Immigration, Assimilation and Nutrition:  Changes in Diet of South Asian and West African Recent Immigrants to New York City
• Anne Paxton (Epidemiology and Population and Family Health)
• Sharon Akabas (Pediatrics)
• Aravind Pillai (Global Health Track)

Improving Recall of Survival and Mortality Events during Retrospective Interviews in Developing Countries: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Supplementary Interviewing Techniques

• Stéphane Helleringer (Department of Population and Family Health)
• James Phillips (Department of Population and Family Health)

We Can Be Good Parents: Understanding and Mitigating Reproductive Stigma Against HIV-positive Men and Women

• Jennifer Hirsch (Department of Sociomedical Sciences)
• Wafaa El-Sadr (Clinical Medicine and Epidemiology)
• Jessica Justman (Clinical Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology)
• Nora J. Kenworthy (Department of Sociomedical Sciences) 

Monitoring Public Opinion of Immigrants in the U.S.

• Neeraj Kaushal (School of Social Work)
• Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz (Teachers College)

Latent Structure Models for Social Networks Using Aggregated Relational Data

• Tian Zheng (Statistics)
• Tyler McCormick (Statistics)

Life Projects, Therapeutic Itineraries and Antiretroviral Therapy in Washington Heights

• Jennifer Hirsch (Department of Sociomedical Sciences)
• Peter Messeri (Department of Sociomedical Sciences)
• Tonya Taylor