Despite the tight funding times, our faculty have been having great success with their grant submissions. The following major grants were awarded since January 2012. A few of the most recent grant awards are reported here, with total anticipated funding amount for duration of project:
| Principal Investigator | Department | Title | Sponsor | Total Anticipated | Awarded Date |
| Betancourt , Theresa | Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center |
Bringing SAFE Child Protection Tools to Practice: Partnerships for Implementation Research |
Oak Foundation | 231,000 | 1/19/12 |
| Garrett , Wendy |
Immunology+ Infectious Diseases |
Beneficial Microbes for Digestive Health and Mucosal Immunity |
Groupe Danone | 2,676,471 | 1/26/12 |
| Williams , Michelle | Epidemiology | Harvard School of Public Health MHIRT Training Program Grant | NIH/NCMHD | 194,038 | 1/27/12 |
| Baicker , Katherine | HPM |
What Does Health Insurance Do Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Lottery |
National Bureau of Economic Research | 393,792 | 1/30/12 |
| McDevitt , James | EH-Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program |
Ultraviolet Nursing Home Influenza Prevention (UNHIP) Field Study |
Department of Veterans Affairs | 192,815 | 2/2/12 |
| VanderWeele, Tyler | Epidemiology | Promoting Research in Religion and Public Health |
John Templeton Foundation |
132,084 | 2/13/12 |
| Burleigh , Barbara |
Immunology+ Infectious Diseases |
Role of host cell metabolism in supporting intracellular Trypanosma cruzi growth |
NIH/NIAID | 384,125 | 2/15/12 |
| Ben-Sahra , Issam | Genetics and Complex Diseases |
Understanding and targeting tumor cell metabolism in LAM |
The LAM Foundation | 150,000 | 2/23/12 |
| Marcus , Leonard | Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development |
National Preparedness Leadership Initiative Project Plan |
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials | 832,882 | 2/29/12 |
| Blendon , Robert | Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development |
Senior Leadership Fellows Program: Gro Harlem Brundtland Leadership Fellows |
Norwegian Knowledge Center for the Health Services | 246,000 | 2/29/12 |
| Shui , Irene | Epidemiology |
Vitamin D, Genes, and Lethal Prostate Cancer |
Department of Defense | 116,389 | 3/7/12 |
| Kanki , Phyllis |
Immunology+ Infectious Diseases |
Capacity Building and Technical Assistance Activities |
AIDS Prevention Initiative in Nigeria, Ltd/Gte. | 399,684 | 3/7/12 |
| Pagano , Marcello | Biostatistics |
Accurate and Efficient Measures for HIV Incidence |
NIH/NIAID | 1,633,075 | 3/7/12 |
| Smith , Patrick |
Immunology+ Infectious Diseases |
Unraveling the interactions between T regulatory cells and the gut microbiota in Health and Disease. | NIH/NIDDK | 155,346 | 3/15/12 |
| Blendon, Robert | HPM | Planning and Management of a Public Health Comm and Community Engagement Project | National Public Health Information Coalition | 560,000 | 3/19/12 |
| Kraft, Phillip | Epidemiology | Methods to Identify Genetic Markers That Interact with Multiple Environmental Exposure | NIH/NCI | 355,300 | 3/20/12 |
| Price, Alkes | Epidemiology | Detecting natural selection by comparing African-ancestry populations | NIH/NHGRI | 161,500 | 3/21/12 |
| VanRooyen , Michael |
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative |
Gender, Rights and Artisanal Mining, North and South Kivu, DRC Project Proposal | World Bank | 100,010 | 4/1/12 |
| Howell , Jessica |
Genetics and Complex Diseases |
mTORC1 regulation in the liver by metformin, AMPK and energy status | NIH/NIDDK | 161,802 | 4/3/12 |
| Flint , Alan | Epidemiology | Whole grains, hypertension, and mortality: a research and training program | General Mills Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition | 260,000 | 4/3/12 |
| Berman , Peter | Health Systems Group | Support to the Countdown to 2015 at Harvard School of Public Health | World Health Organization | 117,202 | 4/4/12 |
| Lok , Judith | Biostatistics | Methods to find and model predictors of the causal effect of HAART | NIH/NIAID | 1,292,000 | 4/4/12 |
| Kobzik , Lester | Environmental Health | Bioactive Peptide libraries for rapid identification of Novel therapeutics | Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) | 1,699,000 | 4/6/12 |
| Jha , Ashish | HPM Core | Understanding Disparities in Patient-Centered Hospital Care | NIH/NCMHD | 1,184,102 | 4/13/12 |
| Fortune , Sarah | Immunology and Infectious Diseases | The persistent problem of tuberculosis | Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 316,016 | 4/17/12 |
| Betensky , Rebecca | Biostatistics | Signal processing for accurate detection of copy number variants in cancer | NIH/NCI | 182,935 | 4/19/12 |
| Baccarelli , Andrea | EH-Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program | Micro-RNA Profiling and Cardiovascular Effects of Traffic Particle Exposure | NIH | 193,642 | 4/23/12 |
| Jha , Ashish | HPM Core | Identifying Ways to Reduce Readmissions Among Minority-Serving U.S. Hospitals | NIH/NHLBI | 1,405,528 | 4/24/12 |
Congratulations to these faculty members! And a special thanks to the all of the staff that made these grant applications possible!
