Active Grants
 | The Department of Preventive Medicine is involved in numerous facets of research, including but not limited to: alturism, quality of life, aging, sleep, education and faculty development, violence, eye disease, diabetes, environmental and occupational exposures, prevention, and cancer/cancer screening. Some projects are short term, while others may last 15 years. Follow the links below to obtain more information on an individual project. |
Key Words | Grant Title | Funding Agency | Roles |
Altruistic Behavior | NSF (#0820609 ) | BROWN: Principal Investigator | |
Altruistic Behavior | Notre Dame/ Templeton (14229) | BROWN: Principal Investigator | |
Altruism | The Pursuit of Happiness: Scientific, Theological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Love of God, Neighbor, and Self | The John Templeton Foundation & Emory University | POST: Co-Principal Investigator |
Altruism, Alcoholism | Helping Others: The 12th Step to Sobriety | The John Templeton Foundation | POST: Co-Investigator
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Altruism | The Flame of Love | The John Templeton Foundation | POST: Co-Principal Investigator |
Decision Management, Peer Support | Improving Depression Management through Peer Support | VA Health Services Research and Development Program IRR 08-325
| BROWN: Co- Investigator |
Peer Support | Peer Support - Congestive Heart Failure Self-Management | NIH R01 HL085420 | BROWN: Co- Investigator |
Quality of Life | Measuring quality of life in an older chronically ill population | National Institute of Aging 1R21AG030177
| SMITH: Principal Investigator
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Quality of Life, Elderly, Ill | ARRA Supplement: Measuring quality of life in an older chronically ill population | National Institute of Aging 1R21AG030177-S1 | SMITH: Principal Investigator
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Aging, Occupational Health | Aging, musculoskeletal disorders and work capacity | CDC/NIOSH 1 R01 OH008929 | MEYER: Co- Investigator |
Aging, Database | Harmonization of Longitudinal Cross-National Surveys of Aging | National Institute of Aging 1R21AG032456-01A1 | BROWN/SMITH: Co- Investigator |
Elderly, Osteo-Arthritics | Fatigue among Older Adult Leg Osteoarthritics | Department of Veterans Affairs | SMITH: Co-Investigator |
Sleep, Elderly | The REST Study: A longitudinal, bidirectional examination of retirement and sleep. | National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging R01 AG036838 (PI: Paul Peppard (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
| HALE: Co-Investigator (PI on Stony Brook subcontract) |
Sleep, Children | Disadvantaged Children: Predictors & Outcomes of Sleep Behaviors | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development R21HD060208 | HALE: Principal Investigator |
Cultural Competency | Teaching and Assessing Cultural Competency using Objective Structured Teaching Exercises (OSTEs): Training the Trainers
| Stony Brook Presidential Mini-Grant for Departmental Diversity Initiatives | MYLONA: Principal Investigator LU: Co-Principal Investigator
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Cultural Competency, Teamwork, Communication | Communication Inter-professional Teamwork Initiative (CITI): New Health Professional Cultural Competency Interdisciplinary Curriculum Model | Stony Brook Presidential Mini-Grant for Departmental Diversity Initiatives
| KAPLAN-LISS: Principal Investigator |
Residency Training | Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, HHS. Grant No. 1D33HP1003701.
| LANE: Project Director | |
Residency Training | American Cancer Society Preventive Medicine | LANE: Project Director | |
Faculty Development | Community Faculty Development on Medical Ethics and Professionalism: Designing and Implementing Objective Structured Teacher Exercise (OSTE)
| Institute on Medicine as a Profession (IMAP) and the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation | MYLONA: Principal Investigator LU: Co-Principal Investigator
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Sexual Violence, Peer Education | Peer Education Program to Prevent Sexual Violence | Avon Foundation (PI: Smita Majumdar)
| HAMMOCK: Consultant |
Violence against Women | Stony Brook University Violence Against Women Prevention and Response Project | Department of Justice (PI: Smita Majumdar)
| HAMMOCK: Consultant |
Myopia, Eye Disease | Collaborative Observational Study of Myopia in COMET Children 2 (COSMICC2): Coordinating Center | National Eye Institute, #3 U10EY011805 | HYMAN: Principal Investigator DIAS: Study Coordinator |
Eye Disease | Candidate Genes for Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma
| National Eye Institute Grant #R01EY13315
| NEMESURE: Consultant/ Collaborator
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Myopia, Eye Disease | ARRA: Collaborative Observational Study of Myopia in COMET Children 2, Coordinating Center | National Eye Institute | HYMAN: Principal Investigator
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Diabetes, Periodontal | Diabetes and Periodontal Disease Trial Coordinating Center (DPTT) | National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research grant #5U01DE018886 | HYMAN: Principal Investigator SCHOENFELD : Co-Principal Investigator |
Diabetes, Periodontal | Diabetes and Periodontal Disease Trial Coordinating Center (DPT) Supplement | National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research | HYMAN: Principal Investigator
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Environmental Pollutants | Gift-Unrestricted for Research on Environmental Pollutants | Anonymous Donor in Suffolk County | KOVACH: Principal- Investigator |
Environmental Exposures, Breast Cancer | US NIH/NIEHS: R01ES019209-01A1 | MELIKER: Principal Investigator KOVACH: Consultant | |
Environmental Exposures, Mercury | Long Island Study of Seafood Consumption | Gelfond Fund for Mercury-Related Research and Outreach | MELIKER: Principal Investigator
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Occupational Exposures | Green Cleaning: Exposure characterization and adoption process among custodians | CDC/NIOSH 1 R21 OH009831-01 | MEYER: Principal Investigator 9/1/09 – 8/31/10 Co-investigator 9/1/10 – 8/31/13 |
Psychogenic Illness , Biological Exposure | Psychogenic Illness in Response to Pandemic or Mass Biological Exposure: Development of Experimental Model | NIH – National Library of Medicine – R21 (PI: Joan Broderick) | KAPLAN-LISS: Co- Investigator |
Selenium, Vitamin E | SELECT Study Center. Selenium and Vitamin E Chemoprevention Trial. | Funding from west Oncology Group/NCI. CA374929-17 | GRANEK: Principal Investigator LANE: Co-Investigator |
Memory, WHI |
| NHLBI. Contract No. N016WH4-4221.Subcontract for Women’s Health Initiative | LANE: Principal Investigator GRANEK: Co Principal Investigator |
Prostate Cancer, Minority | Prostate Cancer in a Black Population (PCBP)
| National Cancer Institute #R01CA114379
| NEMESURE: Principal Investigator (7/09-present) Co-Principal Investigator (4/07-6/09) WU: Co-Investigator/ Senior Biostatistician |
Breast Cancer Screening | Evaluation of a Newly Designed Device for Breast Cancer Screening | Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Foundation Award #1086367
| NEMESURE: Principal Investigator |
