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NC TraCS Award Announcements

The NC TraCS Institute is pleased to announce awardees for 2 programs, April—August 2021:

  • TraCS $2K pilot grants
  • TraCS $2K Stakeholder Engagement vouchers

Awardees include investigators from UNC School of Medicine, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Adams School of Dentistry, and Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute.

TraCS $2K Pilot Grant Program

  • Bush, Montika, School of Medicine
    April 2021
    Project Title: Pilot Study Assessing the Adoption of Secondary Prevention Measures and Mental Health Symptom Burden After a Myocardial Infarction
  • Kent, Erin, Gillings School of Global Public Health
    May 2021
    Project Title: How Natural Disasters in the Rural South Affect Healthcare for Nursing Home Residents
  • Stover, Amanda, Eshelman School of Pharmacy
    June 2021
    Project Title: Community pharmacists as suicide prevention resources: Patient perspectives
  • Diekman, Brian, Biomedical Engineering
    August 2021
    Project Title: Age-related changes in the response of human cartilage to controlled mechanical loading
  • Graves, Christina, School of Dentistry
    August 2021
    Project Title: Interrogating the impact of early life stress on the gut-brain axis

TraCS $2K Stakeholder Engagement Voucher Program

  • deRosset, Leslie, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
    Lathren, Christine, School of Medicine
    Fishbein, Diana, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
    Bluth, Karen, Department of Psychiatry
    April 2021
    Project Title: Refining and Implementing a Culturally-Tailored Self-Compassion Intervention for Latinx Adolescents and Their Parent
  • Lightfoot, Alexandra, Gillings School of Global Public Health
    Harrison, Lisa, Granville-Vance Health Department
    May 2021
    Project Title: Stakeholder Engagement to Develop a Rural, Multi-Level Community-Based Intervention to Prevent Obesity in Preschool-Aged Children
  • Minch, Devon, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
    Aldridge, Will, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
    July 2021
    Project Title: Hearing from Local Families to Ensure Responsive Implementation of Community-wide Parenting Training and Supports
  • Perreira, Krista, School of Medicine
    July 2021
    Project Title: CASA Latina: Community Academic Strategic Alliance to Promote Latinx Engagement in Clinical Research
  • Maddox, Brenna, Psychiatry/TEACHH Autism Program
    August 2021
    Project Title: Autistic Adults and other Stakeholders Engage Together for Suicide Prevention

View a complete list of Pilot awardees at tracs.unc.edu/pilot.

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Have news or an announcement to share? Contact Michelle Maclay at michelle_maclay@med.unc.edu

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