Summary of Seed Grant Funding by Major Topic Area
Economic and Racial/Ethnic Disparities
Ohio State University (Grant # P2CHD058484)
Household Formation and Inequalities in Financial Coping in the COVID-19 Crisis: Building Demographic Insight with New Credit Report Panel Data (PIs: Meta Brown, Economics; Rachel Dwyer, Sociology; Stephanie Moulton, John Glenn School of Public Affairs).
University of Colorado (Grant # P2CHD066613)
Understanding Latino Aging in the Era of COVID (PI: Justin Vinneau).
Designing/Collecting New Data to Evaluate Pandemic Impacts
Columbia University (Grant # P2CHD058486)
Preparing a COVID-19 Module for the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey (PIs: Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Teachers College, Columbia University; Elizabeth Ananat, Barnard College, Columbia University).
University of California, Berkeley (Grant # P2CHD073964-05A1)
Community-based Sampling of Asymptomatic Individuals in the Northern California Bay Area for Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 (PIs: Lisa Barcellos, School of Public Health; Eva Harris, Division of Infectious Disease & Vaccinology, School of Public Health; Nick Jewell, Division of Epi & Biostatistics, School of Public Health).
Mental Health and Other Socio-Medical Consequences of COVID-19 Response Measures Among Low-Income Latinx Families (PI: Julianna Deardorff, Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health; Co-I: Brenda Eskenazi, CERCH, School of Public Health).
Effects of COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies on Economically Disadvantaged Children and Families in California (PIs: Lia Fernald, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley; Wendi Gosliner, Nutrition Policy Institute, UC Davis; Rita Hamad, UC San Francisco).
University of North Carolina (Grant # P2CHD050924)
Pandemic Benefits for US Households and Their Impacts on Household Food Security and Nutritional Quality (PI: Shu Wen Ng, Carolina Population Center, UNC).
Maternal Physical and Mental Health and Outcomes for Children
Columbia University (Grant # P2CHD058486)
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 (PIs: William P. Fifer, Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Carmela Alcántara, Columbia University School of Social Work; and Noelia M. Zork, Columbia University Irving Medical Center).
Bowling Green State University (Grant # P2CHD050959)
Familial Responses to Social Distancing and Mother’s Gatekeeping Role (PI: Monica Longmore).
University of North Carolina (Grant # P2CHD050924)
Family, Work, and Maternal Mental Health During and After the SARS-COV-2 Pandemic (PIs: Angela Parcesepe and Denis Nash, Carolina Population Center).
Duke University (Grant # P2CHD065563)
Children, COVID-19, and its Consequences (the “Triple C” study) (PIs: Christina Gibson-Davis, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University and Sara Curran, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington).
University of Colorado (Grant # P2CHD066613)
Understanding the Mental Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Outbreak and Social Distancing Policies in Denver, CO (PI: Shelby Ross).
Impact of COVID-19 in Countries Outside the United States
University of Maryland (Grant # P2CHD041041)
How Ending a Conditional Cash Transfer Program Impacts Children’s School Enrollment: Evidence from Mexico (PI: Susan W. Parker, Maryland Population Research Center).
University of Michigan (Grant # P2CHD041028)
COVID-19 Vulnerability in South India (PIs: Narayan Sastry, Rand Corporation and Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan; Emily Treleaven, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan).
University of California, Berkeley (Grant # P2CHD073964-05A1)
Understanding Economic Outcomes and Resilience to COVID-19: Evidence from the Kenya Life Panel Survey (PIs: Edward Miguel, Department of Economics Collaborating Investigator; Michael Walker, Post-Doc at CEGA, UC Berkeley).
Women’s Health and COVID-19: Understanding Shifting Needs and Access to Reproductive Health in Kenya and Rwanda (PIs: Laura Packel, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Sandra McCoy, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Jenny Liu, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco).
University of Colorado (Grant # P2CHD066613)
COVID-19 Research in Puerto Rico and Globally in the Public Health and the Social Sciences (PI: Jocelyn West).
Using Twitter and Social Media to Study COVID-19
University of Michigan (Grant # P2CHD041028)
Leveraging Twitter Data on a US Probability Sample during Covid-19 (PI: Zeina Mneimneh, Director, International Unit, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research).
University of California, Berkeley (Grant # P2CHD073964-05A1)
Understanding Spatial Variations in “Social Distancing” Practices and the Impact on COVID-19 Outbreak Dynamics (PIs: Ayesha Mahmud, Department of Demography; Dennis Feehan, Department of Demography; Joseph Lewnard, Division of Epidemiology).
University of Colorado (Grant # P2CHD066613)
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Shaping Health Lifestyles and Technology Use (PI: Theresa Edwards-Capen).
Role of Community Organizations and Prisons and COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics
University of California, Berkeley (Grant # P2CHD073964-05A1)
Disease Prevention and the Role of Community Organizations: Responses to Covid-19 in China and the U.S. (PI: Yan Long, Department of Sociology).
University of Colorado (Grant # P2CHD066613)
Views from the Inside: Prisoners on COVID‐19 Risk and Responses (PIs: Jennifer Ashley, Tostlebe Blinkhorn).
University of California, Berkeley (Grant # P2CHD073964-05A1)
Characterizing the Early Transmission Dynamics and Clinical Spectrum Of SARS-Cov-2 in the United States (PIs: Ayesha Mahmud, Department of Demography; Joseph Lewnard, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health).