…in which I am the principal investigator
- Network Canvas 2.0 (R01DA057973A1; 2023-2028)
Enhancing network data capture for HIV and Drug Research
This award allows the optimization of Network Canvas in order to further improve its timely and broad reach to the most at-risk populations, as well as enhancements that will modernize the tool to better meet the needs of epidemic modelers. In particular, it transitions Network Canvas to a Hybrid Cloud Model, developing a cloud-based software platform that will enhance the ability of researchers to robustly capture data remotely and at scale, as well as reach the most essential but hard-to-reach populations. Additionally, we propose user-engagement and evaluation activities to inform the software’s design and rigorously evaluate its value and impact on the measurement of networks relevant to epidemic modeling and HIV.
MPIs: Drs. Michelle Birkett, Patrick Janulis
Co-Investigators: Gregory Phillips II, Joshua Melville, Noshir Contractor, Bernie Hogan
Total Costs: $3,940,204 - Caregiver Networks (R01AG083034; 2023-2028)
Measuring Caregiver Networks of Older Adults with Alzheimer’s Disease
The overall goal of this proposal is to use a social network data capture software (Network Canvas) to capture expanded definitions of caregivers of those living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD), with special focus on positive/negative aspects of relationships.
MPIs: Drs. Michelle Birkett, Lee Lindquist, MD
Co-Investigators: Drs. Patrick Janulis, Judy Moskowitz, Elizabeth Addington
Total Costs: $3,940,204 - Network Canvas-Software Tools for Open Science Supplement (R34DA052216-S1; 2022-2023)
Enabling Cloud Deployment of a Network Data Capture Tool to Improve Partner Services
This administrative supplement from the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy improves the cloud-readiness of research software with recognized value for the scientific community. Specifically, this award develops a proof-of-concept for URL deployment of a traditional Network Canvas protocol to improve the ability of public health partner services to collect high-quality network data from hard-to-reach populations
PI: Drs. Michelle Birkett
Co-Investigators: Dr. Patrick Janulis, Gregory Phillips II, Joshua Melville
Total Costs: $201,951 - Harnessing the Data Revolution: Data Science Corps (DSC) (NSF; 2021-2024)
The Metropolitan Chicago Data Science Corps – Learning from Data to Support Communities
The NSF-funded Metropolitan Chicago Data-Science Corps (MCDC) is a program that enhances undergraduate data science training by connecting interdisciplinary students with Chicagoland community organizations through paid summer internships.
co-PIs: Drs. Michelle Birkett, Suzan Van Der Lee, Ph.D., Bennett Goldberg, Ph.D., Diane Schanzenbach, Ph.D.
Total Costs: $904,340 - chiSTIG (R01MD014703; 2020-2024)
Simulation Modeling to Understand and Address HIV Disparities in Racial, Ethnic, and Sexual Minority Populations.
This project utilizes existing rich empirical datasets to build chiSTIG, a model built within the chiSIM framework, so that it might serve as a counterfactual laboratory able to test competing hypotheses regarding the etiology of inequities in HIV for sexual minorities, specifically Black and Hispanic MSM, and identify routes for immediate intervention.
Co-Investigators: Drs. Patrick Janulis, Noshir Contractor, Gregory Phillips II, Jonathan Ozik, Charles Macal, Nick Collier
Total Costs: $1,882,282 - Network Canvas-Partner Services (R34DA052216; 2020-2024 NCE)
Developing and Testing a Social Network Data Capture Tool to Improve Partner Services
Partner Services is a foundational public health response shown to be highly effective at slowing the spread of HIV. Unfortunately, the implementation of Partner Services by public health departments is often a challenge. By building on the strengths of our existing network data capture software, this project aims to understand if Network Canvas might simplify as well as modernize disease investigation. A nationwide needs assessment will shape initial understanding while a local pilot will demonstrate feasibility, acceptability, and gather preliminary evidence of efficacy.
Dual PIs: Drs. Michelle Birkett & Gregory Phillips II
Co-Investigators: Dr. Patrick Janulis, Joshua Melville
Total Costs: $716,083 - Network Canvas (R01DA042711; 2016-2023 NCE)
netCanvas: Development, Hardening, and Dissemination of a Software Suite for the Collection of Complex Network and Contextual Data in HIV and Drug Research
This project builds upon our prior work to develop and sustain a standalone
software suite that will simplify the process of collecting complex data, allowing researchers to assess more nuanced associations between contextual factors and the spread of infectious disease and respond to these findings in near real time.
Dual PIs: Drs. Michelle Birkett & Gregory Phillips II
Co-Investigators: Dr. Patrick Janulis, Noshir Contractor, Bernie Hogan, and Michael Bass
Lead Developer: Joshua Melville
Total Costs: $3,012,132 - K-NECT (K08DA037825; 2015-2020)
A Multilevel Network Model of Drug Use and HIV Racial Disparities in Men
A substudy of the RADAR award, this Career Development Award seeks to advance understandings of drug use and HIV racial disparities in young men who have sex with men by examining individual, network, and contextual factors and the interplay between factors, within a multilevel network model.
Primary Mentors: Drs. Brian Mustanski and Noshir Contractor.
Resource Faculty: Drs. Kiarri Kershaw, Hendricks Brown, and George Greene.
Analyst: Dr. Gregory Phillips II
Post Doc: Dr. Patrick Janulis
Research Assistant: Elizabeth McConnell
Total Costs: $799,480 - LYNC (R03DA033906; 2012-2015 NCE)
The Development and Analysis of a Macro-Network of Vulnerable Young Men
This AIDS-Science Track Award for research transition provided unique epidemiological data on the acquisition and transmission of HIV among the drug, sexual, and social networks of YMSM by the creation and examination of a macronetwork of YMSM.
Co-Investigator: Drs. Brian Mustanski
Consultant: Stephen W. Muth
Analyst: Dr. Yun Huang
Research Assistant: Beatriz Menendez
Total Costs: $302,820 - Online Social Networks & Project Q2 (SPAN Faculty Funds; 2013-2014)
Understanding the social context of online relationships for LGBT youth, and implications for intervention.
This study funded the Wave 9 data collection of Project Q2 – the longest running longitudinal cohort study of LGBT youth. Added to this wave was a module in which participants interacted with visualizations of their Facebook network data and provided both qualitative and quantitative ratings of peer groups.
Co-Investigator: Drs. Brian Mustanski
Project Coordinator: Antonia Clifford
Data Manager: Katie Andrews
Research Assistant: Elizabeth McConnell
Other Collaborators: Dr. Bernie Hogan & Joshua Melville
Total Costs: $50,000
…in which I am a co-investigator or mentor.
2022 – 2027 Co-Investigator, NIH/NIDA, 1R01DA055502.
Leveraging Data Synthesis to Identify Optimal and Robust Strategies for HIV Elimination Among Substance-using MSM.
PI: Patrick Janulis, Ph.D.
Total Costs: $3,227,768
2022 – 2025 Co-Investigator, Chicago Community Trust
Research and Evaluation Proposal of the North Lawndale Collaborative
PI: Andrew Papachristos, Ph.D.
2022 – 2025 Co-Investigator, Chicago CRED, Inc.
Ongoing Research and Evaluation of Chicago CRED
PI: Andrew Papachristos, Ph.D.
2021 – 2026 Co-Investigator, NIH/NIAAA, 1R01AA029044.
Intersectional Approaches to Population-Level Health Research: Role of HIV Risk and Mental Health in Alcohol Use Disparities among Diverse Sexual Minority Youth.
PI: Gregory Phillips II, Ph.D.
Total Costs: $1,584,124
2020 – 2022 National Institute on Drug Abuse/NIH ID#: 3UG1DA050066-02S1. Title: Community network driven COVID-19 testing among most vulnerable populations in the Central US. Principal Investigator: John Schneider, MD Role on Project: Co-Investigator. Total costs for project period: $3,680,904
2020 – 2021 National Institute on Minority Health Disparities/NIH ID#: Supplement to UG3HD096920. Title: Intensive Combination Approach to Rollback the Epidemic (iCARE) in Nigerian Adolescents Principal Investigator: Babafemi Taiwo & Rob Garofalo. Supplement PIs: Ramon Lorenzo-Redondo & Gregory Phillips II. Role on Project: Co-Investigator. Total costs for project period: $376,400
2018 – 2023 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH ID#: R01AI138783. Title: EpiModel 2.0: Integrated Network Models for HIV/STI Prevention Science. Principal Investigator: Samuel Jenness. Role on Project: Co-Investigator.
2020 – 2021 Co-Investigator, Internal Seed Funds From NU’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Coping with COVID-19: Impact of Access to Nature on Health and Wellbeing. PI: Teresa H Horton. Total costs for project period: $12,000
2016 – 2021 Co-Investigator, NIH/NIAAA, 1R01AA024409-01A1.
Role of Alcohol Disparities in HIV Risk among Sexual Minority Youth.
PI: Gregory Phillips II, Ph.D.
This grant seeks to assess alcohol use disparities between sexual minority youth (SMY) and heterosexual peers, and identify the impact of state policies and social have on health outcomes of SMY versus heterosexual peers.
Total Costs: $1,581,873
2018-2021 Co-Sponsor, NIH Grant 1F31DC017631
Underlying Psycholinguistic Skills in Late Talkers: Distinct Profiles and Differences from Typically Developing Children.
PI: Phillip Curtis.
2016-2019 Faculty Sponsor, NIH Grant 1F31DA040524-01
Race-related Social Contextual Factors, Substance Use, and HIV
PI: Elizabeth McConnell
This mixed-methods project will examine how networks, venues, and
neighborhoods function as risk environments for YMSM of different racial groups as well as structural mechanisms that shape racial differences in risk environments.
Total Costs: $130,728
2016 – 2021 Co-Investigator, Ce-PIM, P30DA027828
Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology for Drug Abuse & HIV.
This application is for a competing renewal of the Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology for HIV and Drug Abuse, a NIDA P30 Center of Excellence. This methods proposal addresses this major gap between research and practice through implementation science and methodology, focusing on innovative ways to address the complex, mulitilevel interactions needed to implement HIV prevention programs effectively.
PIs: Hendricks Brown, Ph.D. & Brian Mustanski, Ph.D.
Total Costs: $900,858
2015 – 2016 Co-Investigator of Supplement, Ce-PIM, P30DA027828.
Center for Prevention Implementation Methods for Drug Abuse & Sex Risk Behavior.
PI: Hendricks Brown, Ph.D.
This supplement seeks to examine the feasibility of performing integrative data analysis of large scale prevention trials to examine the extent to which sexual minority youth benefit from programs relative to heterosexual youth.
Total costs: $94,078.
2015-2016 Mentor, CFAR Supplement
Improving Surveillance of HIV among YMSM to Target Microepidemics
PI: Gregory Phillips II, Ph.D.
I serve as a mentor to Dr. Gregory Phillips on his project which aims to
complement existing HIV surveillance and better target prevention to improve
understanding of the multilevel social and structural drivers of HIV transmission
clustering/microepidemics.
Total Costs: $ 152,239
2014-2019 Co-Investigator and Co-Lead of the Network Science Section, NIH/NIDA Grant 1U01DA036939
Multilevel Influences on HIV and Substance use in a YMSM Cohort.
PI: Brian Mustanski, Ph.D.
I am Co-Leading the Network Science Section with Dr. Noshir Contractor. This grant establishes a longitudinal, dynamic, dyadic, network study of young MSM to identify multilevel risk factors for HIV infection and forward transmission. Total costs: $8,697,386
2013-2014 Co-Investigator, Northwestern University Alliance for Research in
Chicagoland Communities Seed Grant Award
Evaluating Community-Level HIV Prevention Using a Social Networks Approach
PIs: George Greene, Ph.D. & Dianna Manjarrez, MPH
This proposal aims to: (1) identify and describe the structure of the social networks of Mpowerment Project participants (n=120); and (2) assess the degree and processes through which HIV preventive messages are disseminated through their social networks.
Total Costs: $50,000