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Along with research conducted by CDC staff, we also fund researchers outside CDC through extramural opportunities. Browse below our current and previous research funding opportunities.
Research funding
Institution: Johns Hopkins University | PI: Bandara, Sachini - Assessing the Implementation and Outcomes of State Prenatal Drug Use Laws
Institution: University of California at Davis | PI: Fenton, Joshua - Rigorous Evaluation of California Policies to Disseminate Emergency Department- based Services for Opioid Use Disorder
Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital | PI: Stringfellow, Erin - Evaluating Telehealth's Role in Buprenorphine Treatment Initiation and Retention Overdose Mortality, and Access Equity: An Analysis for Policy Development
Institution: Northwestern University at Chicago | PI: Allen, Lindsay - The Impact of Recreational Cannabis Legalization on Substance Use Outcomes
Institution: New York University School of Medicine | PI: Bennett, Allen - Community-based evaluation of a novel, system-wide harm reduction strategic plan for people experiencing homelessness in New York City
Institution: University of Illinois Chicago | PI: Williams, Leslie - Overdose and Substance Use-related Stigma on Chicagos West Side by Training Non-substance-using Friends and Family Members of People who Use Opioids to Be Harm Reduction Champions
Institution: University of Michigan at Ann Arbor | PI: Lagisetty, Pooja - Developing and Evaluating the Concerned Caregivers Education for Resource Navigation (ConCERN) Intervention for Preventing Overdose
Institution: New York University, School of Medicine | PI: Bennett, Allen - Assessing the Impact of Overdose Prevention Centers as a Polysubstance Use and Behavioral Health Intervention in New York City
Institution: Research Triangle Institute | PI: Graham, Phillip - Evaluating an ACEs-Targeting Advocate Model of a Substance Use Prevention Program
Institution: Emory University | PI: Carpenter, Joseph - Linking Individuals Needing Care for Substance Use Disorders in Urban Emergency Departments to Peer coaches (LINCS UP)
Institution: University of Kentucky | PI: Bunn, Terry - Evaluation of Kentucky Access to Recovery Linkage Strategy
Institution: University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester | PI: Smelson, David - Supporting Treatment Access and Recovery through Linkage and Support (STAR-LS)
Institution: Rhode Island Hospital | PI: Samuels, Elizabeth - Emergency department community health worker-peer recovery navigation for linkage to recovery: A mixed methods evaluation
Institution: The University of California at Davis | PI: Fenton, Joshua - Patterns and trajectories associated with overdose in patients co-prescribed opioids and benzodiazepines
Institution: Seattle-King County Public Health Department | PI: Hood, Julia - Mixed Methods Assessment of Poly-Drug Consumption Patterns and Trajectories following Initiation of a High-Risk Drug Class
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | PI: Ranapurwala, Shabbar - Risk and Protective factors of Polydrug Overdose in North Carolina
Institution: Johns Hopkins University | PI: German, Danielle - Mixed methods study of polysubstance use to optimize overdose prevention
Institution: University of Pennsylvania | PI: Hennessy, Sean P. - Stimulant Overdose in the Medicaid Population: Who is at Risk, and When are They at Risk
Institution: Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital PI: Michaels, Nichole L. - Evaluation of a novel intervention to prevent polysubstance overdoses involving illicit stimulants
Institution: Brown University | PI: Hughto, Jaclyn White - Preventing Overdoses Involving Stimulants (POINTS)Study
Institution: University of Nevada Reno | PI: Wagner, Karla D. - A Multi-Site Mixed Methods Study of Methamphetamine Use in the Mountain West
Institution: Boston Medical Center PI: Bagley, Sarah M. - Integrating responses to stimulant overdose among post-overdose programs
Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital | PI: Jalali, Mohammad S. - A community-based systems science approach to assess risk and protective factors and improve the efficacy and equity of intervention strategies for stimulant use, use disorder, and overdose
Institution: University of Kentucky | PI: Delcher, Chris - STIMuLINK
Institution: Wayne State University | PI: Ray, Brad - Examining the iatrogenic effect of law enforcement disruptions to the illicit drug market on overdose in the surrounding community
Institution: Denver Health and Hospital Authority | PI: Al-Tayyib, Alia - Beginning Early and Assertive Treatment for Methamphetamine Use Disorder (BEAT Meth): A comprehensive systems-level secondary prevention strategy to prevent stimulant related overdoses
Institution: Public Health Foundation Enterprises | PI: Coffin, Phillip O. - Leveraging Psychological Autopsies to Accelerate Research into Stimulant Overdose Mortality
Institution: Brigham and Women’s Hospital | PI: Fischer, Michael - Engaging clinicians to improve opioid safety and reduce overdose risk
Institution: University of Illinois at Chicago | PI: Pickard, Simon - Impacting the Prescribing of Opioids through Academic Detailing
Institution: Johns Hopkins University | PI: Hanna, Marie - Strategies for Improving Prescription Opioid Use in Perioperative Pain Management
Institution: Rhode Island Hospital | PI: Beaudoin, Francesca - Implementing statewide emergency department care pathways for addiction recovery after opioid overdose
Institution: State University of New York at Buffalo | PI: Kahn, Linda - A Rigorous Evaluation of the Opioid Intervention Court Strategy- A Public Health Response
Institution: University of Pittsburgh | PI: Van Nostrand, Elizabeth - Evaluating Problem Solving Courts as a Public Health Intervention to Prevent Opioid Overdose
Institution: University of Pennsylvania | PI: Meisel, Zachary - Studying the PhilAdelphia Resilience Project as a Response to Overdose (SPARRow)
Institution: New York University School of Medicine | PI: Doran, Kelly - Randomized Controlled Trial of Relay- NYCs Nonfatal Overdose Response Program
Institution: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | PI: Ranapurwala, Shabbar - Evaluation of state-mandated acute and post-surgical pain-specific CDC opioid prescribing guidelines
Institution: University of Utah | PI: Cochran, Gerald - Optimizing Pregnancy and Treatment Interventions for Moms 2.0
Institution: RAND Corporation | PI: Powell, David - Improving Naloxone Access and Its Effects on Drug Abuse and Overdoses [aka The Role of Pharmacies in Improving Naloxone Access]
Institution: Boston Medical Center | PI: Walley, Alexander - Knock and Talk: Public Health-Public Safety Partnerships for Post-Overdose Outreach and Prevention [aka Pronto Study: Partnerships for Post-Overdose Outreach]
Institution: Johns Hopkins University | PI: Latkin, Carl - An evaluation of a social network intervention for primary and secondary prevention of opioid overdoses
Institution: Health Research Inc | PI: Gellberg, Kitty - Evaluation of Community-based Drug User Health Hubs to Reduce Opioid Overdoses in NY State
Institution: Johns Hopkins University | PI: Holtyn, August - Mobile technology for buprenorphine treatment engagement and overdose prevention in out-of-treatment opioid users
Institution: Yale University | PI: Cone, David - A Multi-Tiered Safety Net Following Naloxone Resuscitation from Opioid Overdose
Institution: Oregon Health & Science University | PI: Waddell, Elizabeth - Reducing Overdose After Release from Incarceration (ROAR)
Institution: Denver Health and Hospital Authority | PI: Al-Tayyib, Alia - Linkage navigation to enhance initiation and engagement in treatment for opioid use disorder to prevent overdose
Institution: University of Pennsylvania | PI: Metzger, David - Rapid initiation of buprenorphine/naloxone to optimize MAT utilization in Philadelphia
Institution: Carolinas Medical Center | PI: Seymour, Rachel - Implementing a Multimodal Path to RecOVEry (IMPROVE): Primary and Secondary Prevention of Opioid Overdose in Acute Care
Institution: University of South Florida | PI: Moore, Kathleen - Effects of remote motivational enhancement and MySafeRX on post-detox engagement and retention in buprenorphine treatment
Institution: New York University | PI: Simmons, Janie - Evaluation of an Experimental Educational Module on Opioid-related Occupational Safety to Minimize Barriers to Overdose Response among Police Officers