Health Policy Research Scholars Dissertation Grant Awardees
All scholars in Health Policy Research Scholars (HPRS) are eligible to apply for the HPRS Dissertation Grant, a competitive award of up to $10,000 dollars. The one-time grant supports scholar dissertation research activities for projects that have specific health policy implications and advance a Culture of Health. Applications are reviewed and awarded quarterly.
The Program at a Glance
The Program at a Glance
Who is Health Policy Research Scholars for?
Doctoral students from a variety of disciplines—such as urban planning, political science, economics, anthropology, education, social work, geography, and sociology—who are committed to using policy change to advance population health and health equity.
Applicants must be:
- Full-time doctoral students who are entering the second year of their programs in fall 2022 and do not expect to graduate before spring/summer 2025.
- From historically marginalized backgrounds and/or populations underrepresented in specific doctoral disciplines.
- Pursuing a research-focused discipline that can advance a Culture of Health.
- Interested in health policy and interdisciplinary approaches.
What do scholars receive?
- Annual award funding of up to $30,000 for up to four years or until they complete their doctoral program (whichever is sooner).
- Mentoring and training in health policy and leadership.
- Professional ties to public health and policy leaders and innovators from diverse fields.
- Opportunity to compete for an additional dissertationgrant of up to $10,000.
- Membership in a network of scholars and alumni for research and advocacy collaborations.
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August 2021
- Chioma Woko: The Effect of Source Credibility on Promising Message Themes: A Message Pretesting Study to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Black Americans
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May 2021
- Tran Doan: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Universal Routine Depression Screening of U.S. Adolescents in Primary Care
- Shanaé Burch: In Pursuit of Healthful Narratives: Black Women and/or Gender-Expansive Citizens Creating and Performing Art and Cultural Work in Service of “Good Health”
- Alberto Cifuentes: A Convergent Mixed Methods Study of the Impact of Stigma on the Sexual Health and Substance Use Outcomes of Internet-based Cisgender Male Sex Workers Who Have Sex with Men
- Katherine Gutierrez: Three Essays on Policy, Equity, and Economics
- Ans Irfan: Advancing Culture of Health & Health Systems Strengthening through Climate Adaptive Social Entrepreneurship: Social Impact Case Study for Climate Competent Care
- Jocelyn Poe: On Trauma Imaginaries & Community Health
- Jake Ryann Sumibcay: Examining Structural Racism as a Fundamental Cause of Health Inequities Among the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders in the United States and the Indigenous Māori and Pacific Peoples in Aotearoa New Zealand: An Exploratory Comparative Case Study Analysis
- Tiana Moore: Residential Mobility and Historical Discriminatory Housing Policy’s Influence on Contemporary Child Health and Cognition
- Hawi Teizau: Maternal Mortality in the Spotlight: An Analysis of Maternal Health Research, News Media Coverage, and Public Opinion Related to Maternal Mortality and Maternal Health Policies in the United States
- Matthew Bakko: Disentangling Punishment and Care: Organizing Institutional Change in Municipal Community Safety
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February 2021
- Andrew Arriaga: It’s the Law?: A Study of Policy, Minority Stress, and Gay Men’s Barriers to Parenthood in the United States
- Mónica Gutierrez: Does Power Impact an Individual’s Ability to Maintain Place, Space, and Identity? A Community Study
- M. Nicole Kunkel: The Effects of Perinatal PCBs and Sociosexual Stress on the Hypothalamus and Behavior of Female Rats
- Kevin Wiley Jr.: Data Quality and Care Coordination in Type 2 Diabetes Management
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November 2020
- Rebekah Cross: Gentrification, Residential Mobility and Preterm Birth among Black Women: A Mixed-Methods Study of Racial Resegregation in Northern California
- Yaminette Diaz-Linhart: Does Worker Voice Impact Worker Well-being in Health Care and Social Services?
- Tyler Jimenez: Untitled
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August 2020
- Angela Adler: Brain Injury and Romantic Partnership: Relationship Quality and Stigma
- Josefina Flores Morales: Three Essays on the Health of Immigrants and Undocumented Adults and Elders
- Demar Lewis: Black Ideologies on Community Safety in the 21st Century
- Kathleen McCarty: Sport Opportunities for Collegiate Students with Disabilities: A Mixed Methods Review of Current Program Offerings, Barriers, and Facilitators
- Samantha Scott: How Deep is your Kaumaha? Unfolding the Experiences of Historical and Intergenerational Trauma among Wāhine
- Kristi Roybal: Exploring the Relationship between Historical Redlining and Place-Based Reproductive Health Inequities: A Qualitative GIS Approach
- Cristina Gomez-Vidal: The Legal Reproduction of Maternal and Infant Health Inequities in Unincorporated Communities
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May 2020
- Deanna Barath: Hospital Cross-Sector Partnerships to Improve Health Outcomes
- Regina Fuller: The (Un)Making of Comprehensive Sexuality Education Policy in Ghana
- Leslie Salas-Hernández: Understanding Police-Public Contact: The Role of Police Violence and a Police Training Intervention
- Terrell Frazier: Innovation at the Intersection: Specifying the Dynamics of Tactical Innovation within Heterogenous Activist Networks
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February 2020
- Laurent Reyes: A Phenomenological Study Exploring Experiences of Civic Participation among Older African Americans and Latinx Immigrants using an Intersectional Life-Course Perspective
- Jennifer Whittaker: Understanding the Role of Place in Health and Wellbeing for Rural Families: A Photovoice Project by Moms
- Ashley Gripper: We Don’t Farm because it’s Trendy: An Environmental Justice Approach to Understanding the Connections Between Urban Agriculture and Health in Philadelphia
- Raven Hardy: Mechanism of Brain Circuitry Underlying Cognitive Decline in Sickle Cell Disease (SCD)
- Dislorei (Desi) Small-Rodriguez: Remaking Collective Identities: Data Sovereignty, Citizenship, and Indigenous Nations
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December 2019
- Alane Celeste-Villalvir: Finding the Missing Millions: An Exploration of Challenges and Facilitators to Hepatitis C (HCV) Screening Among Individuals Experiencing Homelessness
- Mario Alberto Espinoza-Kulick: La Gente Unida: Latinx Immigrant and Indigenous Health and Advocacy on California’s Central Coast
- Adrian Neely: School Connectedness and African American Students: An Examination with Implications for Policy and Teacher Education
- Marie Plaisime: Perceptions of Racial Bias & Interracial Anxiety Among Medical Students: A Mixed Methods Study
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July 2019
- Brittney Butler: Examination of Exposures to Anti-Black Racism Over the Lifecourse and their Association with Pregnancy Induced Hypertensive Disorders Among Black Women
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May 2019
- Samuel Baxter: Examining Racial Differences in Cardiovascular Health among Young Men: The role of Residential Segregation
- Jenny Guadamuz: Immigration Status, Cardiovascular Risk Factors, and Medication Use in the United States
- Marcela Nava: The Political Economy of Immigrant Health: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Social Capital and the Immigrant Paradox
- Kristefer Stojanovski: Systems Science Approaches to Visualize, Model, and Explore Stigma’s Role in Socially Patterning HIV Risk Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men (GBMSM) in Europe
- Henry Willis: Developing a Culturally-Adapted Mobile Mental Health Intervention: A Multi-Study, Mixed Methods Approach
- Jennifer Richmond: Reducing Racial Disparities in Health Services Use: Exploring the Role of Racial Equity Training for Nurse Navigators and Improved Measurement of Trust in Health Care
- Bukola Bakare: Corporate Social Responsibility and Traffic Congestion: A Mixed Methods Study
- Ana Herrera: The Association between Tobacco Retail Outlet Density and Advertising with Neighborhood Socio-demographic Characteristics around Colleges in Texas
- Amy Jones: The New Affirmative Action: The Experience of Students of Color in Diversity-Focused Collegiate Incorporation Programs
- Jennifer McGee-Avila: Multilevel Points of Intervention to Improve Cervical Cancer Screening Among Women Living with HIV: A Mixed Methods Approach to Addressing Health Inequities
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February 2019
- Jasmine Blanks Jones: Performance as Public Work: Youth as Civic Actors for Policy and Practice in Liberia
- Matthew Lee: Advancing Understandings of Policy Implementation and Sustainability to Address Health Equity: A Mixed Methods Case Study of Tobacco Control in New York City
- Dana Williamson: Understanding Capacity-building Efforts to Address Environmental Justice Concerns
- Erica Browne: Moving Further Upstream to Promote Racial Equity: A Mixed Method Analysis of Private Nonprofit Hospital Community Benefit
- Angeliz Encarnación Burgos: Urban Development under Conditions of Colonialism: A Critical Urban History of Santurce, Puerto Rico
- Arrianna Planey: A Multi-Scale Spatial & Political Economic Analysis of Health Policy, Provider Location Decisions, and Access to Audiology Services
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September 2018
- Patrice Williams: “They Over-Promised and Under-Delivered”: A Mixed Methods Study on the Effects of Residential Displacement Pressure on Black Residents in Southwest Atlanta
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June 2018
- Andrew Anderson: Exploring Mental Health Disparities among Accountable Care Organizations
- Sondra Calhoun Lavigne: Antimicrobial Use and Resistance: Intersections of Companion Animal and Public Health
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April 2018
- Paul Shafer: Effect of the Affordable Care Act on Utilization of Emergency and Primary Care
- Michelle Doose: Examining the Multilevel Influences on Diabetes and Hypertension Clinical Care Management among Breast Cancer Patients