Congratulations to our Summer 2025 Collaboration Grant Recipients!
We are proud to showcase these exciting projects, which represent the diversity of ideas and foci of CAHSS faculty.
Janelle Billingsley, PhD (Psychology) and Loren Henderson, PhD (Public Policy)
Developing a Youth-Adult Partnership Intervention Model to Address Systemic Inequities in Under-Resources Communities
This project aims to develop and pilot-test a youth-adult participatory action research intervention to support community members’ advocacy capacity in under-resourced Black communities in Baltimore.
Lauren Clay, PhD (Emergency and Disaster Health Systems) and Dillon Mahmoudi (Geography and Environmental Systems)
Pre-Planning Logistics Models that Integrate Earth Systems, Built Environment, and Social Environmental Data
This project aims to mathematically model flooding impacts on post-hurricane food availability and integrate these results with community input to create logistic planning models to reduce flood impacts in affected areas.
Molly Franz, PhD (Psychology), Sandra Barrueco, PhD (Psychology), and David Schultz, PhD (Psychology)
Improving Mental Health and Parenting through Peer Support: Adapting Mom Power for Trauma-Exposed Mothers in Home Visiting Programs
This project aims to extend an existing intervention to support trauma-exposed mothers by enhancing its peer support component.
Karrie Godwin, PhD (Psychology), Michele Stites, PhD (Early Childhood Education), and Susan Sonnenschein, PhD (Psychology)
Supporting Academic Success and Well-Being Post-COVID-19 for Children with and without Disabilities: Lessons Learned from Teachers, Parents, and Children
This project will evaluate long-term correlates of, and ideas for mitigating, COVID-19’s disruption to primary education by gathering data from children, parents, and teachers regarding how the pandemic affected past and current educational practices and learning.
Jason Loviglio, PhD (Media and Communication Studies) and Jun Chu, PhD (Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health)
The Impacts of Digital Modern Media and their Influencers on Health Behaviors and Health Information Access among Asian and Latino Immigrants in the US
This project aims to evaluate associations between social media consumption and health behavior among Asian and Latine immigrants in the US.