There were 11 recipients of our second round of pilot grants this year, who collectively received $275,000. 8 grants were awarded in the general Population Health Science category and 3 awarded to Community Engagement.

All of the projects are aligned with the mission of our 14 working groups:

Population Health Sciences

Working Group: Analytics  • Health and Behavior • Environment and Health • mHealth and Other New Technologies for Health • Special Populations

Improving personalized medicine through n-of-1 causal inference and predictive modeling | Eric J. Daza

Working Group: Adolescent Health  •  Analytics  •  Health Disparities • Gene-Environment Interaction 

Quantifying Individual Genetic Risk in Diverse Populations | Laramie Duncan

Working Group: Food and Nutrition • Health and Behavior

Living Laboratories in Institutional Food Settings: Building a Research Model to Help Develop Strategies for Improving Healthy Food Choices | Christopher Gardner

Working Group: Health Disparities: Global and Domestic

Assessment of StatinS in Understudied Races and Ethnicities (ASSURE) | Latha Palaniappan

Working Group: The First 1,000 Days  • Environment and Health 

Assay development for the study of skin flora and allergy in infants | Julie Parsonnet

Working Group: Adolescent Health  • Health and Behavior • Food and Nutrition • Gene-Environment Interaction 

Telomere Length Changes as a Marker of Chronic Disease Risk Among Children Participating in Lifestyle Behavior Change | Thomas Robinson

Working Group: Analytics  •  Environment and Health • mHealth and Other New Technologies for Health • Special Populations

Design and development of a personal environmental exposure monitoring device | Mike Snyder

Working Group: Environment and Health • Health Disparities • Special Populations

GapMap: A mobile surveillance system to map autism and gaps in autism services globally  | Dennis Wall

Community Engagement

Working Group: The First 1000 Days   

Pediatrics and education: A transdisciplinary approach to improve school readiness | Lisa Chamberlain

Working Group: Environment and Health • Health Disparities • Special Populations

Improving food insecurity screening and referral to healthy food resources in a community clinic population in San Mateo County | Christopher Gardner

Working Group: Environment and Health • Health Disparities • Special Populations

Developing and evaluating a K-drama precision mental health curriculum among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders | Van Ta Park, Mildred Cho

There were 17 recipients of our pilot grants this year, who collectively received $525,000; 7 grants were awarded in the general Population Health Sciences, 7 others in the Learning Health Care Innovation Challenge, and 3 projects for the Community Engagement sector.  To see the full list of Spectrum awardees, click here.

All of the projects are aligned with the mission of our 14 working groups:

Population Health Sciences

Working Group: Immigration and health | Health disparities - global and domestic

Desperation migration in the developing world: An empirical analysis | Eran Bendavid 

Working Group: Analytics | Learning healthcare systems

Quality, cost, and value: Studying the net value of diabetes management | Karen Eggleston

Working Group: Immigration and health | Health disparities - global and domestic

The effect of anti-immigrant policies on the health of immigrants and ethnic minorities: A quasi-experimental study | Jens Hainmueller

Working Group: Work-life, retirement, disability, aging, cognitive decline | Special populations and rare diseases 

Cancer in elderly: Establishing an infrastructure for research in elderly at Stanford Medicine | Ann Hsing

Working Group: Adolescent health | Analytics | Health and behavior | Learning healthcare systems | mHealth and other technologies for health

Towards personalizing and optimizing behavioral interventions in mobile health
 | Jane Paik Kim

Working Group: Health disparities - global and domestic | Health and behavior | mHealth and other technologies for health | Sex and gender

The use of mobile phone technology to prevent and redress gender-based violence in Gujarat, India: opportunities and barriers
 | Jennifer A. Newberry

Working Group: Analytics | Learning healthcare systems

Mining the EMR and extant population datasets to define normal human body temperature over time | Julie Parsonnet

Community Engagement

Working Group: Adolescent Health | Health and behavior | Special populations and rare diseases

Pilot project to develop an initial infrastructure and data monitoring center for the study and prevention of local suicide clusters | Rebecca Bernert

Working Group: Health and behavior | Health and the environment | mHealth and other technologies for health

Leveraging the quantified self for citizen science: “Discovering peaceful places and sorry spaces” in Santa Clara County | Benjamin Chrisinger

Working Group: Health disparities - global and domestic | Health and behavior | Special populations and rare diseases

Implementing evidence-based mental health care in East Palo Alto school districts | Flint M Espil

Learning Health Systems

Working Groups: Learning healthcare systems | mHealth and other technologies for health | Health and behavior

Patient guided virtual hypertension management | N. Lance Downing

Working Group: Analytics | Health disparities - global and domestic | Learning healthcare systems | Special populations and rare diseases

Population-based Health Information Exchange for Cancer Prevention:  Surveillance for cancer-related infections | Summer Han

Working Group: Analytics | Health and environment | Learning healthcare systems | Special populations and rare diseases

Machine learning approaches to predicting medical readiness of new U.S. Army recruits | Lianne Kurina

Working Group: Analytics | Health disparities - global and domestic | Learning healthcare systems

A population-based analytic resource for diabetes: Solano County health information exchange | Jennifer S. Lee

Working Group: Gene – environment interaction | Learning healthcare systems | Analytics | Work-life and aging

The immune system and cancers using a gene-centric approach | Ying Lu

Working Group: Analytics | Learning healthcare systems

Personalizing vital sign alarms | Sarah Poole

Working Group: Analytics | Learning healthcare systems

Tracking ambulatory care-sensitive condition (ACSC) ER visits and hospitalizations in the context of a primary care redesign | Marcy Winget

There were 17 recipients of our pilot grants this year, who collectively received $520,000; 7 grants were awarded in the general Population Health Sciences, 7 others in the Learning Health Care Innovation Challenge, and 3 projects for the Community Engagement sector. All of the projects aligned with the mission of our 10 working groups:

Population Health Sciences

Working Group: 1000 days of life

Using anthropometrics to assess the impact of a novel multi-disciplinary social enterprise intervention on population health in the Democratic Republic of Congo | Yvonne Maldonado

Working Group: Work-life, retirement, disability, aging, cognitive decline

Health insurance design and international differences in health at older ages | Maria Polyakova

Working Group: Sex and gender in health research

Assessment of novel outcomes in the Women’s Health Initiative using Medicare claims: an exploration of a new administrative and clinical trial data linkage opportunity at Stanford | Jacqueline Baras

PTSD, deployment stress and pregnancy outcomes among active duty U.S. army soldiers | Lianne Kurina

Working Group: Special populations and rare diseases

Designing cluster-randomized trials that are less susceptible to interference across levels of the treatment: with application, data sharing and software | Michael Baiocchi

Desmoid tumors for big data linkage | Shivaani Kummar

Working Groups: Gene – environment interaction | Analytics

Curating NHANES genetic data for sociogenomic modeling | David Rehkopf

Community Engagement

Community first responder training for medical emergencies: empowering bay area high school students | Henry Curtis

Working Group: Disparities – global and domestic

Patient provider race concordance and the preventive health seeking behavior of black men | Marcella Alsan

Working Group: Immigration and health

Muslim community association of Santa Clara and Stanford Muslims and mental health research lab: strengthening an emerging CBPR collaboration | Rania Awaad

Learning Health Systems

Creation and use of decision aids fueled by patient-reported outcomes: Building the bridge between doctor and patient for improved shared decision-making | Cindy Kin

Electronic patient portal enabled clinical decision support to improve health maintenance: A randomized evaluation | N. Lance Downing

Data-driven mammography decision-support: analyzing images and reports to improve breast cancer diagnosis | Francisco Gimenez

Precision surgical care: risk and treatment stratification using a novel learning health system | Sean Mackey

Working Groups: 1000 days of life | mHealth and other technologies for health

Accuracy of weekly self reporting of health care utilization, infectious disease and antibiotic use among pregnant women and their infants | Julie Parsonnet

Working Group: mHealth and other technologies for health

Low cost accerelerometers for profiling early mobilization progress following spinal surgery | Allen Ho

Working Group: Disparities – global and domestic

A population wide analysis of emergency department length of stay for patients undergoing inter-facility transfer for severe psychiatric illness | Suzanne Lippert