Pilot Grants (Community Engagement and Research (CEAR) Core)

Pilot Grants (Community Engagement and Research (CEAR) Core) is sponsored by University of Pennsylvania (Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA)). The Community Engagement and Research (CEAR) Core makes pilot grant funding available for research with public and community health relevance.

Pilot Grants - Penn CEAR Core % The Community Engagement and Research (CEAR) Core of the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) at the University of Pennsylvania makes pilot grant funding available for research with public and community health relevance. CEAR Core also awards pilot grant funds through Community Driven Research Day (CDRD) .

Community Driven Research Day is a collaboration between community groups and researchers at Penn, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Temple University, Drexel University, LaSalle University, and Thomas Jefferson University. CDRD is an opportunity for members of community organizations and academic researchers to come together to meet and discuss potential collaborations and community-academic partnerships.

Questions can be addressed to Krista Scheffey ( krista. scheffey@pennmedicine. upenn.

edu ) and Emma Soliva ( emma. soliva@pennmedicine. upenn.

edu ) Other related pilot grant opportunities available at Penn Community Driven Research Day Pilot Grants CEAR Core Pilot Grant Awards Carmen Alvarez, PhD, CRNP Associate Professor of Nursing Associate Dean for Global Engagement “ Increasing Access to Mental Health Support for Underserved Latinas ” Rithambara Ramachandran, MD, MSc Assistant Professor, Glaucoma Division Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania “Developing A Patient-Centered Outcome Measure for Community Eye Disease Screening” Catherine McDonald, PhD, RN, FAAN Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Co-Director, Penn Injury Science Center “ Design and Pilot Evaluation of E4E Drivers License Academy Program ” MindCORE Postdoctoral Fellow “ A Community Partnership to Improve Mental Health in Philadelphia Youth Diversion ” Nia Bhadra-Heintz , MD, MS Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Co-director of PROUD “Enhancing Perinatal Care for Substance Use Disorders in West Philadelphia” Associate Professor, Social Policy & Practice “Screening for Nutrition in Oncology Settings for Underserved Rural Communities with Food Insecurity and Social Determinants of Health Challenges” Elinore Kaufman, MD, MSHP Associate Professor, Surgery “Health Care Use Among Patients Newly Insured via Hospital-Based Insurance Linkage” Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine “Improving Quality of Heart Failure Care Among American Indian Patients Receiving Care through the Indian Health Service” Sarah Schrauben, MD, MSCE Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine “Pilot Study of Kidney Community Connect – Digital Tools for Kidney Research” Associate Director, Predoctoral Education in Family Medicine Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine and Community Health, Perelman School of Medicine “African Immigrant Community Needs Assessment and burden of diabetes and trauma” Vice Chair for Academic Development, Department of Neurology Ruth Wagner Van Meter and J.

Ray Van Meter Professor of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine “TTR Amyloidosis Education and Outreach Program” Postdoctoral Fellow, Perelman School of Medicine “Nutrition Assistance Recipient and Stakeholder Perceptions on COVID-19 Policy Changes” Assistant Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division “Caregiving youth: an invisible cause of inequity” Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania “A telehealth solution to improve community access to fetal monitoring in high-risk pregnancies: a feasibility pilot study” Kristen Feemster, MD, MPH, MSHPR, FAAP Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine Attending Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia “Evaluating the Impact of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Educational Videos on Parental Knowledge of Respiratory Virus Transmission and Etiquette” Postdoctoral Fellow, Perelman School of Medicine Raina Merchant, MD, MSHP, FAHA Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine “Increasing Hepatitis B Screening among Chinese and Vietnamese Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health Director of Research, Center for Public Health Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program “Building the Capacity of Libraries to Address the Social Determinants of Health” Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Attending Physician, Division Infectious Diseases, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship Associate Healthcare Epidemiologist, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Division of Infectious Diseases Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness (CPCE), The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia “Development of a Citywide Antimicrobial Stewardship Collaborative” Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine “Testing and Dissemination of a Screening Measure for PTSD in Youth” Community Driven Research Day – Pilot Grant Awards Community-Driven Research Day (CDRD) is a program that encourages collaboration between researchers and community-based organizations (CBOs)/community groups that have research questions they are interested in answering.

Through CDRD, Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and community groups interested in developing partnerships to conduct research participate in an interactive rapid presentation that highlights their mission, goals, and major accomplishments and displays research questions they are interested in answering to health and equity for their community members. Learn more here https://violence. chop.

edu/community-driven-research-day George Kannarkat, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania “Close Contact for Couples® with Parkinson’s ” Desmond Upton Patton, PhD, MSW PIK Professor, School of Social Policy & Practice Annenberg School for Communication “ Bout Mine I Matter Youth Video Production Initiative Research Pilot ” ________________________________ Abigail Ross, LICSW, MPH, PhD Associate Professor, Social Policy and Practice “A Community-Driven Evaluation of the Up-Cycling Arts Therapy Program” Senior Lecturer, Director of School and Community Engagement; Graduate School of Education Know Your Worth Girls Inc. “The Preparation and Pilot Implementation of HOPE-ish: A Mental Health Awareness Program” Steven Paul Meanley, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor of Nursing “Building capacity to address equity in sexual health and wellness among transgender and gender nonbinary communities in Philadelphia” ____________________________________ Sara F.

Jacoby, MPH, MSN, PhD Assistant Professor of Nursing “Evaluating the gun violence prevention potential of the 60th Street Strong Coalition” Terri Lipman, PhD, CRNP, FAAN Professor of Nursing of Children, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Learning Central Preschool “Enhancing children’s readiness for school: Using goals of community parents” Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine “Examining A Partnership Between Youth and Community Stakeholders in Violence Intervention: A Qualitative Approach”