UM1DA050098
Cooperative Agreement
Overview
Grant Description
Methodology and Advanced Analytics Resource Center 2.0 - effective response to the overdose crisis requires rigorously conducted scientific investigations, with a specific focus on criminal legal system, to identify interventions, strategies and approaches that are efficient, feasible, scalable, and sustainable.
Phase I of the Justice Community Overdose Innovation Network (JCOIN) created under the NIDA HEAL Initiative funded a series of investigations targeting key stages of the substance use treatment continuum as people with substance use disorders interact with the criminal legal system. Together with the new research hubs that will be identified during JCOIN Phase II, these studies will generate a large amount of rich data from the most vulnerable populations in the U.S.
Opening opportunities for analyses beyond the primary study aims to maximize the impact of investment into scientific research – one of the primary foci of the Methodology and Advanced Analytics Resource Center (MAARC). The MAARC will also provide overall leadership and coordination of centralized data management; data infrastructure support; provide resources for advanced analytical techniques across the network; research dynamic changes in policy and practice in criminal-legal/community service settings; and conduct novel studies applying cutting edge analytical techniques to existing data and data collected across the JCOIN network:
Aim 1. The Administrative Core will integrate existing organizational and collaborative infrastructure to provide overarching resources and organizational structure and management to the center;
Aim 2. The Data and Analytics Support Core will continue to facilitate the collection, archiving, and storage of data collected by the research hubs, assist with closeout and curation of Phase 1 data and facilitate internal and external data sharing across both JCOIN phases;
Aim 3. The Technical Assistance Core will support on-demand technical assistance (consultation) and provide appropriate resources to JCOIN Phase I PIs, JCOIN Phase II researchers, and scientists across NIDA and beyond;
Aim 4. The Survey Core will leverage NORC’s expertise to support national surveys about topics broadly relevant to substance use, stigma, behavioral health, criminal-legal systems, and public health with opportunities for specialized surveys of criminal justice systems as well as modified referral sampling of AmeriSpeak adjacent community members;
Aim 5. The Geospatial Core will build upon popular geospatial tools, data and policy scans from Phase 1 to support innovative geospatial analysis that address important gaps in the environmental context of overdoses in criminal legal involved community members;
Aim 6. The Modeling Core will develop an agent-based network modeling framework to conduct experiments of JCOIN trials and other in-silico trials guided by JCOIN investigators and other practitioners using multiple existing and new data sources;
Aim 7. The Policy Landscape Core will inventory and characterize major policy/legal environmental changes with specific focus on Medicaid at the state and national level and produce datasets and related resources that can be used by JCOIN researchers and the larger NIDA research community.
Phase I of the Justice Community Overdose Innovation Network (JCOIN) created under the NIDA HEAL Initiative funded a series of investigations targeting key stages of the substance use treatment continuum as people with substance use disorders interact with the criminal legal system. Together with the new research hubs that will be identified during JCOIN Phase II, these studies will generate a large amount of rich data from the most vulnerable populations in the U.S.
Opening opportunities for analyses beyond the primary study aims to maximize the impact of investment into scientific research – one of the primary foci of the Methodology and Advanced Analytics Resource Center (MAARC). The MAARC will also provide overall leadership and coordination of centralized data management; data infrastructure support; provide resources for advanced analytical techniques across the network; research dynamic changes in policy and practice in criminal-legal/community service settings; and conduct novel studies applying cutting edge analytical techniques to existing data and data collected across the JCOIN network:
Aim 1. The Administrative Core will integrate existing organizational and collaborative infrastructure to provide overarching resources and organizational structure and management to the center;
Aim 2. The Data and Analytics Support Core will continue to facilitate the collection, archiving, and storage of data collected by the research hubs, assist with closeout and curation of Phase 1 data and facilitate internal and external data sharing across both JCOIN phases;
Aim 3. The Technical Assistance Core will support on-demand technical assistance (consultation) and provide appropriate resources to JCOIN Phase I PIs, JCOIN Phase II researchers, and scientists across NIDA and beyond;
Aim 4. The Survey Core will leverage NORC’s expertise to support national surveys about topics broadly relevant to substance use, stigma, behavioral health, criminal-legal systems, and public health with opportunities for specialized surveys of criminal justice systems as well as modified referral sampling of AmeriSpeak adjacent community members;
Aim 5. The Geospatial Core will build upon popular geospatial tools, data and policy scans from Phase 1 to support innovative geospatial analysis that address important gaps in the environmental context of overdoses in criminal legal involved community members;
Aim 6. The Modeling Core will develop an agent-based network modeling framework to conduct experiments of JCOIN trials and other in-silico trials guided by JCOIN investigators and other practitioners using multiple existing and new data sources;
Aim 7. The Policy Landscape Core will inventory and characterize major policy/legal environmental changes with specific focus on Medicaid at the state and national level and produce datasets and related resources that can be used by JCOIN researchers and the larger NIDA research community.
Awardee
Funding Goals
TO SUPPORT BASIC AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE, BIOMEDICAL, BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE, EPIDEMIOLOGIC, HEALTH SERVICES AND HEALTH DISPARITY RESEARCH. TO DEVELOP NEW KNOWLEDGE AND APPROACHES RELATED TO THE PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT, ETIOLOGY, AND CONSEQUENCES OF DRUG ABUSE AND ADDICTION, INCLUDING HIV/AIDS. TO SUPPORT RESEARCH TRAINING AND RESEARCH SCIENTIST DEVELOPMENT. TO SUPPORT DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH FINDINGS. SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH (SBIR) LEGISLATION IS INTENDED TO EXPAND AND IMPROVE THE SBIR PROGRAMS TO EMPHASIZE AND INCREASE PRIVATE SECTOR COMMERCIALIZATION OF TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED THROUGH FEDERAL SBIR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, INCREASE SMALL BUSINESS PARTICIPATION IN FEDERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, AND FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION OF SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND WOMEN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS IN THE SBIR PROGRAM. THE LEGISLATION INTENDS THAT THE SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (STTR) PROGRAM STIMULATE AND FOSTER SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION THROUGH COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CARRIED OUT BETWEEN SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, FOSTER TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER BETWEEN SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, TO INCREASE PRIVATE SECTOR COMMERCIALIZATION OF INNOVATIONS DERIVED FROM FEDERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, AND FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION OF SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS AND WOMEN-OWNED SMALL BUSINESS CONCERNS IN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION.
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding / Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Chicago,
Illinois
606375418
United States
Geographic Scope
Single Zip Code
Related Opportunity
Analysis Notes
Amendment Since initial award the total obligations have increased 183% from $1,950,978 to $5,521,141.
University Of Chicago was awarded
Advanced Analytics Criminal Justice Interventions in Overdose Crisis
Cooperative Agreement UM1DA050098
worth $5,521,141
from National Institute on Drug Abuse in June 2019 with work to be completed primarily in Chicago Illinois United States.
The grant
has a duration of 10 years and
was awarded through assistance program 93.279 Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs.
The Cooperative Agreement was awarded through grant opportunity Administrative Supplements to Existing NIH Grants and Cooperative Agreements (Parent Admin Supp Clinical Trial Optional).
Status
(Ongoing)
Last Modified 9/24/25
Period of Performance
6/15/19
Start Date
5/31/29
End Date
Funding Split
$5.5M
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$5.5M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Transaction History
Modifications to UM1DA050098
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
UM1DA050098
SAI Number
UM1DA050098-2068542524
Award ID URI
SAI UNAVAILABLE
Awardee Classifications
Private Institution Of Higher Education
Awarding Office
75N600 NIH National Insitute on Drug Abuse
Funding Office
75N600 NIH National Insitute on Drug Abuse
Awardee UEI
ZUE9HKT2CLC9
Awardee CAGE
5E688
Performance District
IL-01
Senators
Richard Durbin
Tammy Duckworth
Tammy Duckworth
Modified: 9/24/25