U24AG076462

Consortium Coordinating Center for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research on COVID-19 - Project Summary/Abstract

Over the past 60 years, the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) has successfully coordinated the research needs for over 800 universities and research institutes. This work has led to the expanded use of secondary data, the development of innovative lines of research, and the training of multiple generations of scholars across the fields of social and behavioral sciences.

The role of the social sciences in understanding major health challenges and disasters has expanded rapidly over the past several decades, and ICPSR, in partnership with the Institute for Social Research (ISR), has played a key role in offering an infrastructure to support this work. New areas and new directions have emerged, such as population health, social determinants of health, health equity, growth of longitudinal studies, and complex national population-based surveys.

ICPSR has been able to bring together and share cutting-edge research emerging from cross-disciplinary collaborations in a systematic manner using an open science model of information distribution. An ICPSR-led consortium model for social, behavioral, and economic (SBE) research will provide a nexus for communication, streamlining information-sharing across the behavioral and social science community, multiple NIH centers, and to the public.

This proposal creates a new independent Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research on COVID-19 Consortium Coordinating Center (SBECCC) for COVID-19 related research. The new SBECCC will include resources and support for research specific to COVID-19. To maximize the growth of cross-disciplinary research, its mission will also expand to promote collaborative work between the funded U01 projects, other NIH research centers, and a multidisciplinary research community, each with different missions, cultures, and ethos.

The SBECCC will involve experts from the Survey Research Center in ISR, the Program for Research on Black Americans in ISR, and the Center for Health and Research Transformation at the University of Michigan to develop the consortium, SBE research projects, and produce dissemination materials that aggregate and synthesize research findings emerging from NIH investments in COVID-19 research.

Regents Of The University Of Michigan

TO ENCOURAGE BIOMEDICAL, SOCIAL, AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH AND RESEARCH TRAINING DIRECTED TOWARD GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE AGING PROCESS AND THE DISEASES, SPECIAL PROBLEMS, AND NEEDS OF PEOPLE AS THEY AGE. THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING HAS ESTABLISHED PROGRAMS TO PURSUE THESE GOALS. THE DIVISION OF AGING BIOLOGY EMPHASIZES UNDERSTANDING THE BASIC BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES OF AGING. THE DIVISION OF GERIATRICS AND CLINICAL GERONTOLOGY SUPPORTS RESEARCH TO IMPROVE THE ABILITIES OF HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS TO RESPOND TO THE DISEASES AND OTHER CLINICAL PROBLEMS OF OLDER PEOPLE. THE DIVISION OF BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL RESEARCH SUPPORTS RESEARCH THAT WILL LEAD TO GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOCIAL, CULTURAL, ECONOMIC AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS THAT AFFECT BOTH THE PROCESS OF GROWING OLD AND THE PLACE OF OLDER PEOPLE IN SOCIETY. THE DIVISION OF NEUROSCIENCE FOSTERS RESEARCH CONCERNED WITH THE AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AS WELL AS THE RELATED SENSORY, PERCEPTUAL, AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES ASSOCIATED WITH AGING AND HAS A SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) PROGRAM: TO EXPAND AND IMPROVE THE SBIR PROGRAM, TO INCREASE PRIVATE SECTOR COMMERCIALIZATION OF INNOVATIONS DERIVED FROM FEDERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, TO INCREASE SMALL BUSINESS PARTICIPATION IN FEDERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, AND TO FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION OF SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND WOMEN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS IN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION. SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (STTR) PROGRAM: TO STIMULATE AND FOSTER SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION THROUGH COOPERATIVE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CARRIED OUT BETWEEN SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, TO FOSTER TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER BETWEEN SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, TO INCREASE PRIVATE SECTOR COMMERCIALIZATION OF INNOVATIONS DERIVED FROM FEDERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, AND TO FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION OF SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND WOMEN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS IN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION.

93.866 - Aging Research

National Institute on Aging (NIA) [HHS - NIH]

Ann Arbor, Michigan 481091276 United States

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Emergency Award: Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research on COVID-19 Consortium Coordinating Center (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-AG-21-035)

Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 556% from $750,000 to $4,916,545.