Gia Barboza-Salerno, HB Franchino-Olsen and Laura Prater received support
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Three College of Public Health faculty were awarded seed grant funding from the College of Arts and Sciences Institute for Population Research to support new research projects.
Gia Barboza-Salerno, an assistant professor who has a joint appointment at the College of Social Work, received $25,000 for their project "Spatial Accessibility of Reproductive Health Care Services Following Dobbs v. Jackson Woman’s Health Organization."
HB Franchino-Olsen, faculty fellow in the Division of Health Behavior and Health Promotion, received $40,000 for her project “Patterns of polyvictimization among young children in Ohio: A pilot study to investigate complex violence patterns in the lives of children age six – 11 and their feelings at being included in sensitive research.”
Laura Prater, an assistant professor in the Division of Health Services Management and Policy, received $40,000 for her project “Establishing Pilot Data to Support Community Co-Development of Interventions to Prevent Pregnancy-Associated Firearm Injury and Death.”