Healthcare delivery, trust in healthcare, biomarkers, and more: SBE CCC supports research into key takeaways from the COVID-19 pandemic
SBE CCC has awarded four pilot project grants to scholars conducting innovative research into the COVID-19 pandemic. These grants address critical topics related to the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, including changes in healthcare delivery and accessibility for chronic care management and long COVID, trust in the health system and vaccine hesitancy, and the role of neuroinflammation in young adult mental health. They will shed light on the pandemic’s lasting social, behavioral, and economic effects and inform responses to potential future public health emergencies.
The four pilot grant recipients and their projects are:
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Jessica Cao, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Customized optimal use of telehealth for chronic care management and disparity reduction: A machine learning and clustering approach
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Chris Monk, University of Michigan: Childhood material hardship, adolescent neuroinflammation, and brain connectivity as predictors of young adult mental health during COVID-19: A longitudinal birth cohort study
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Sharifa Nasreen & Victor Puac-Polanco, SUNY Downstate: Trust in the health system and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States
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Sicheng Wang & Xueying Yang, University of South Carolina: Spatial and social disparities in subjective and objective transportation accessibility to healthcare services and their relationship to long COVID
Now in its fourth year, SBE CCC’s pilot grants program has supported more than a dozen researchers and yielded new insight on topics ranging from COVID-19 policy implementations and rollbacks, to rural-urban differences in COVID-19 impact, to telehealth care access and use. “We were impressed with the range and quality of the applications we received this year and are excited to welcome our new 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, even five years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a public health emergency, there are new lessons to be learned about the pandemic’s lasting effects on individuals, institutions, and communities. Our response to and preparedness for future disruptions depends on continuing support of research like these four pilot project grants.”
Work on the projects will begin as early as April 2025. 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.
Feb 28, 2025