SBE CCC awards new pilot project grants
SBE CCC has awarded three pilot project grants to scholars conducting new and innovative research into the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The grants address critical topics related to the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, including changes in healthcare delivery, shifts in family support structures, and the unwinding of pandemic-era mitigation policies. Taken together, they represent a unique set of contributions to our understanding of the pandemic’s lasting social, behavioral, and economic effects.
The three pilot grant recipients and their projects are:
- Guangyi Wang, University of California San Francisco: Examining the effects of the expiration of the 2021 expanded CTC and SNAP benefit on perinatal health: Quasi-experimental evidence from a national survey
- Uchenna R. Ofoma, Washington University in St. Louis: The impact of tele-critical care on rural-urban disparities among hospitalized critically ill patients during the COVID-19 pandemic
- I-Fen Lin, Bowling Green State University, and Judith A. Seltzer, University of California Los Angeles: Improving survey measures of time and money help given and received due to hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic
“We are grateful that support from the consortium will help us better understand how family members and individuals’ broader social networks helped buffer the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic,” says pilot grant recipient I-Fen Lin. “Our project also will expand the data available for studies of how help from family and friends interacts with government support to affect individuals’ health and well-being.”
Now in its third year, SBE CCC’s pilot grants program has supported more than a dozen researchers and yielded new research on topics ranging from vaccine hesitancy to long COVID to essential and frontline work. “We were thrilled with the caliber of applications we received this year and are pleased to welcome our pilot grant recipients to the consortium,” says Dr. John Kubale, research assistant professor at ICPSR and co-principal investigator of SBE CCC. “Their research demonstrates that while the COVID-19 public health emergency may be over, COVID continues to impact families, institutions, and policy—often in ways that magnify existing inequalities. The findings from this research will inform not just our ongoing response to COVID-19, but the response to and preparedness for future pandemics as well.”
Work on the projects will begin as early as March 2024. Pilot grant recipients will join SBE CCC’s consortium of researchers investigating various social, behavioral, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Visit our Pilot Project Grants website to learn more about our grant recipients and how to apply for a grant from SBE CCC.
Jan 24, 2024