Research: Pilot Projects
2010 Mini-Grants | 2010 New Investigator Award
2009 Mini-Grants | 2009 New Investigator Awards
2010 Mini-Grants
- James Bellamy, CNMT, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Nuclear Medicine Technology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and doctoral scholar in Health Systems Research at UAMS. His pilot project is entitled "The Uptake of Emergency Preparedness Training at the Local Level: The TRAIN Experience"
Contact: BellamyJames@uams.edu - Erika Samoff, PhD, MPH, Research Associate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health and Colleen Bridger, PhD, MPH, Gaston County (NC) health director will conduct a pilot project entitled "Effects of the H1N1 Outbreak on Public Health Workforce Capacity, North Carolina 2009"
Contact: erika.samoff@unc.edu and Colleen.Bridger@co.gaston.nc.us
2010 New Investigator Award
- Cammie Marti, BSN, MPH, a doctoral scholar in public policy at the University of Arkansas and project manager for the NCPERRC research project on accreditation at UAMS. Her study is related to her accreditation work, "Real-time data collection to reduce recall bias associated with Public Health event look-backs."
Contact: CCMarti@uams.edu
2009 Mini-Grants
- Philip R. Berke, PhD, professor in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of City and Regional Planning and deputy director of the UNC Institute for the Environment is conducting a pilot project "Identifying Obstacles to Improving Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery among Disadvantaged Population: A Case Study of Bayou La Batre, Alabama."
Contact: pberke@email.unc.edu or David Salvesen dsalv@email.unc.edu - Noel P. Greis, PhD, director of the Center for Logistics and Digital Strategy at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, whose study is titled "A systems approach to North Carolina public health preparedness: Social networks and information models."
Contact: Noel_Greis@unc.edu or Monica Nogueira Monica_Nogueira@unc.edu - Stephanie W. Haas, PhD, professor, UNC School of Information and Library Science, whose study is titled "Modeling communication links among public health emergency preparedness officials in North Carolina using social network analysis: A pilot study."
Contact: shaas@email.unc.edu or Laura Christopherson llchrist@email.unc.edu - Javed Mostafa, PhD, associate professor in the UNC School of Information and Library Science, whose study is titled "Public Health Informatics Pilot Study."
Contact: jm@unc.edu or Julia Kampov-Polevoi jkampov@email.unc.edu - James C. Thomas, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology and director of the program in public health ethics at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, whose study is titled "State pandemic influenza ethics preparedness."
Contact: jim.thomas@unc.edu or SiobhanYoung
2009 New Investigator Awards
- Eric Gebbie, MA, a doctoral scholar from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, whose study is titled "Initial review of applicability of international humanitarian emergency standards to displaced population care in the United States."
Contact: egebbi2@uic.edu - Jennifer Horney, MPH, MA, a doctoral scholar from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, who received her PhD in May 2009, and whose study is related to her dissertation "Hurricane Evacuation Failure: The Role of Social Cohesion, Social Capital and Social Control."
Contact: jen.horney@unc.edu