Injury Center Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs)

Initial Fiscal Year: 2005
Program: ERPO
FOA Number: CE05-025
FOA Title: Grants for Dissertation Awards

Purpose

The purposes of the program are to:
- Solicit research applications that address the priorities reflected under the heading, “Research Objectives”.
- Build the scientific base for the prevention and control of injuries, disabilities, and deaths disproportionately experienced in minority communities.
- Encourage doctoral candidates from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including epidemiology, medicine, biostatistics, public health, law and criminal justice, behavioral, and social sciences to perform research in order to prevent and control injuries more effectively.
- Assist students in the completion of their dissertation research on a violence-related or unintentional injury topic.
- Encourage investigators to build research careers related to the prevention of violence-related or unintentional injuries, disabilities, and deaths in minority communities.

Awarded Projects

Project Title: Relation of Identity and Aggression Among Latino Adolescents
Grant Number: 1-R49-CE000547-01
Project Period: 9/01/05 -8/31/06

Project Title: A Twin Study of Suicidality & Self-Harm Among White and
African American Women
Grant Number: 1-R49-CE000549-01
Project Period: 8/30/05-8/29/06

Project Title: The Environment of Middle Childhood and Adolescent Violence in Baltimore Cohort
Grant Number: 1-R49-CE000555-01
Project Period: 8/30/05-8/29/06

Project Title: Intimate Partner Violence Among Low-Income Pregnant Women: Multilevel Analysis
Grant Number: 1-R49-CE000556-01
Project Period: 9/1/05-8/31/06