Current Grants

Leveraging cell phone location data to measure interactions with the food environment and associated health outcomes

PI: Pablo Monsivais (WSU)Project number: R21DK129895Project dates: 9/22/2022-5/31/2025 Unhealthy diet is a key behavioral risk factor for several chronic diseases, particularly type-2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers. Long-term measures of diet are typically self-reported and subject to known sources of error and bias. A recognized population-level determinant of diet is access to and use […]

Genetically Informed Studies of Social Connectedness and Health

PI: David Sbarra (University of Arizona)Project number: R01AG078361Project dates: 8/15/2022-4/30/2027 A large body of evidence indicates that high-quality social relationships are correlated with decreased risk for morbidity and mortality from a range of disease outcomes, and that social disconnection and poor relationship quality are correlated with considerable risk for negative health outcomes. Although most of […]