The Center for Global Health Equity is awarding new funding to three faculty-led research projects at the University of Michigan (U-M) through our Seed Grant and Impact Accelerator programs. These keystone initiatives reinforce our commitment to accelerating innovative interdisciplinary scholarship advancing health outcomes around the world.
Impact Accelerator Grants
Impact Accelerator Grants aim to support action-oriented projects focused on designing, piloting, or testing solutions that improve health outcomes for people in low- and middle-income contexts. Projects are funded up to $100,000. During this latest round of proposals, two projects were awarded funding:
Building a Locally Informed Climate and Health Data Infrastructure in Bangladesh
- Pam Jagger (lead investigator), U-M School for Environment and Sustainability
- S.M. Manzoor Ahmed Hanifi (lead investigator), International Centre for Diarrhoeal DiSchool for Environment and Sustainability Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b)
- Joe Eisenberg, PhD, U-M School of Public Health
- Mohammed Ombadi, PhD, U-M College of Engineering Rehnuma Haque, PhD, icddr,b
- Sharoardy Sagar, MD, icddr,b
Ecorazón: A Community Intervention to Reduce Stress and Enhance Resilience Among Women in Esmeraldas, Ecuador
- Maria Muzik, MD (principal investigator), U-M School of Medicine Angela Johnson, PhD, U-M School of Medicine
- Joe Eisenberg, PhD, U-M School of Public Health
- Nergiz Turgut, PhD, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
- Maria Sol Garces Espinoza, MD, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
- Nancy Castro, Universidad San Francisco de Quito Itziar Familiar, PhD, Michigan State University
- Gwenyth Lee, PhD, Rutgers University
Seed Grants
Our seed grant program support exploratory projects that foster fresh ideas and partnerships, laying the groundwork for impactful future projects. Projects are funded up to $35,000. In this most recent round of proposals, three projects were awarded funding:
Implementation of cost-effective nutrition strategies to improve metabolic health effects associated with informal electronic waste recycling
- Jaclyn Goodrich, PhD (principal investigator), U-M School of Public Health
- Heidi Hausermann (co-principal investigator), U-M PhD, School for Environment and Sustainability
- Sylvia Akpene Takyi, PhD, U-M Center for Global Health Equity
- Ashley Cureton, PhD, U-M School of Social Work
- Laurene Boateng, PhD, University of Ghana Hamdaratu Dauda, 37 Military Hospital, Ghana
Exploring the health needs of internally displaced women living with or at heightened risk for HIV in Ukraine
- Elizabeth King (principal investigator), PhD, U-M School of Public Health
- Tetiana Kiriazova, PhD, Ukrainian Institute on Public Health Policy
- Irina Bondarenko, MS, U-M School of Public Health
- Olena Makarenko, MD, PhD, Ukrainian Institute on Public Health Policy
- Abigail Dumes, PhD, U-M LSA Women’s and Gender Studies William Axinn, PhD, Ford School of Public Policy
Environmental Risk Factors for Esophageal Cancer in the Somali Region of Ethiopia
- Sonja Dawsey (co-principal investigator), U-M School of Medicine Miftah Delil, MD, St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia
- Akbar Waljee, MD, U-M School of Medicine Mark Topazian, MD, St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College, Ethiopia
- Menggang Yu, PhD, School of Public Health
- Alison Mondul, PhD, U-M School of Public Health Margaret Frye, PhD, LSA, Department of Sociology
