Awards Received June 1 through August 31, 2011

College of Health & Human Services

Office of the Dean

Dr. John Landsverk

Rady Children's Hospital San Diego: "California Evidence-based Clearinghouse - CASRC Outcomes Evaluation," $35,796

Graduate School of Public Health

Dr. Wael Al-Delaimy

Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute: "Hair and Toenail Nicotine as Biomarkers of Actual Population Exposure to Tobacco," $108,500

Dr. Elva Arredondo

University of California at San Diego: "Planned Care for Obesity and Risk Reduction (Planned CORR)," $20,218

Dr. Guadalupe Ayala

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: "Hispanic Community Children's Health: Study of Latino Youth (SOL-Youth)," $355,409

Dr. John Elder

California Endowment: "San Diego Prevention Research Center Binational Health Week Conference," $5,000 ▪ National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities: "Mentoring Diverse Students in Health Disparities Research," $377,603

Dr. John Elder and Dr. Gregory Talavera

National Heart Lung and Blood Institute: "Investing in America's Future: Mentoring Latinos in Health Disparities Research," $347,860

Dr. Tracy Finlayson

University of California at San Francisco: "Glass Ionomer Sealant and Fluoride Varnish Randomized Clinical Trial: GIFT," $10,670

Dr. Richard Gersberg

San Diego Coast Keeper: "San Diego Watershed Ambient Water Quality: Levels of Dissolved Heavy Metals," $30,000

Dr. Melbourne Hovell

National Cancer Institute: "Clinician Promotion of Healthy Diet and Activity to Reduce Obesity Among Adolescents," $23,136; "Clinician Promotion of Healthy Diet and Activity to Reduce Obesity Among Adolescents- Undergraduate Supplement for Liseth Marquez," $1,675 ▪ National Institute of General Medical Sciences: "Transdisciplinary Training for Predoctoral Behavioral Scientists," $166,330

Dr. Paul Kurtin

Ivera Medical Corporation: "CCS Neonatal Infection Prevention Collaborative Data Analysis Center Support," $41,400

Dr. Lisa Kwizera-Asmus

Family Health Centers of San Diego: "HIV Education and Prevention: HIV High-risk Positives and High-risk Negatives," $10,000; "Minority Aids Initiative (MAI) Integrated Care Coordination Program Evaluation," $5,000

Dr. David Lawrence

California Department of Health Services: "Childhood Injury Prevention Resource Center," $135,000 ▪ California Department of Public Health: "EPIC Symposia Planning," $114,448

Dr. Suzanne Lindsay

California Department of Public Health: "Continuous Quality Assurance Program," $1,255,500; "Data Navigator Project (Project #1) and Client Directed Incentives (Project #2)," $591,210 ▪ San Diego State University: "ARRA: Communities Putting Prevention to Work: Obesity Prevention Focus - Enhanced Evaluation," $5,628

Dr. Hala Madanat

Public Health Institute: "The Development of a Valid and Reliable Measure of Self-Efficiency to Consume Fruits and Vegetables in a Sample of Low-Income Californians," $10,000

Dr. Thomas Novotny

California Department of Public Health: "Tobacco Waste Toolkit," $200,000 ▪ Fogarty International Center: "Susceptibility to Smoking Initiation Among Young Rural-Urban Migrants in China," $53,962 ▪ The Association of Hole in the Wall Camps: "Evaluation of The Outcomes of Camp Addis (Residential) in Ethiopia," $11,770

Dr. Robert Seidman

Health Resources and Services Administration: "California-Nevada Public Health Training Center," $643,893 ▪ University of California at San Diego: "ARRA: The San Diego Beacon Community Collaborative," $68,656

Dr. Carleen Stoskopf

Health Resources and Services Administration: "Public Health Traineeships," $31,622

Dr. Gregory Talavera

National Institute of Mental Health: "San Diego Latino Research Center of Excellence: Partnership to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease," $1,370,717

School of Social Work

Dr. John Clapp

San Diego County Alcohol and Drug Services: "Driving Under the Influence (DUI) Program," $3,543,300

Dr. Anita Harbert

California Department of Social Services: "Public Child Welfare Training Academy for the Southern Region," $14,130 ▪ California State University San Francisco: "Bay Area Academy-Adult Protective Services," $17,407 ▪ San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency: "Lineworker Core Training," $198,500; "Workforce Education and Training Specialist," $756,603

Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences

Dr. Karen Emmorey

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: "Bimodal Bilingualism," $472,853 ▪ National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders: "Language, Modality and the Brain," $43,955

Dr. Tracy Love and Dr. Lewis Shapiro

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders: "The Temporal Characteristics of Brain-Language Relationships: Evidence from Impaired Populations," $357,768

Dr. Ignatius Nip and Dr. Katina Blumenfeld

Language Learning: "Cognitive and Linguistic Influences on Speech Motor Control of L2 in Adult Language Learners," $9,883

Dr. Sonja Pruitt-Lord

Price Family Charitable Fund: "City Heights Educational Collaborative - Pilot Project for Preschool Intervention at Rosa Parks Elementary School," $53,550