Funding
For more information or guidance on identifying and applying for optimal funding opportunities for your project contact the Center on Health, Aging, and Disability.
Travel Grants
This fund is designed to support tenure-track faculty, tenured faculty, academic professionals, and lecturers/instructors/clinical associates/research associates (not post-docs or students) who are presenting research papers or posters.
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Tenure-track and tenured faculty
This fund is designed to support tenure-track faculty, tenured faculty who are presenting research papers or posters. This fund is to be used after other sources of funding, like the Campus Research Board’s Scholars Travel Fund, have been exhausted. Travel grants can be used for multiple trips but are limited to $1,000 per year (July 1-June 30th) per person. This funding will not carryover from year to year.
Specialized Faculty and Academic Professionals
CHAD will provide travel support in the amount of $500 each year for academic professionals and specialized faculty (i.e. clinical, teaching, or research professors) presenting research or other scholarship at a conference. Travel grants can be used for multiple trips, but are limited to $500 per year (July 1-June 30th). This funding will not carryover from year to year.
CHAD Pilot Grants
The goal of the Center on Health, Aging, and Disability’s Pilot Grant Program is to support innovative, groundbreaking interdisciplinary research aimed at advancing our understanding of health and wellness, aging, disability and the maintenance of a high quality of life. This annual call is issued in the spring semester and is limited to tenured and tenure-track faculty with in the College of Applied Health Sciences. Support is limited to $30,000 and 18-month projects.
Pilot Grant Application Guidelines can be found here.
Please use this page to submit your application.
For more information, please contact Wendy Bartlo at wbartlo@illinois.edu
Recent CHAD Pilot Grant Recipients
2023
Soyoung Choi, KCH
Co-Designing an Alexa-Based Conversational mHealth System with Visually Impaired People to Promote Physical Activities
Individuals with visual impairments (VI) are at increased risk for chronic diseases and tend to engage in less physical activity (PA) compared to those without VI. However, little attention has been paid to the accessibility of fitness trackers and apps for people with VI. We aim to codesign and develop an Alexa-based conversational agent for an accessible mHealth system that encourages individuals with VI to increase their PA and achieve their fitness goals. Through this study, we expect to improve PA adherence among people with VI and other disabilities and contribute to developing mHealth interventions for this population.
Matthew Hanks, KCH
Determining the Role of Physical Activity on Shoulder Musculoskeletal Adaptation, Biomechanics, Pain, and Pathology in Pediatric and Young Adult Manual Wheelchair Users
Physical inactivity and debilitating shoulder pain and pathology are highly prevalent in manual wheelchair users. Recent studies have found that engaging in physical activity is associated with reduced and delayed onset of shoulder pain and pathology in adult manual wheelchair users; however, the relationships between physical activity and shoulder pain and pathology in children and young adults remain understudied. Our research will investigate the role of physical activity on shoulder pain and pathology in pediatric and young adult manual wheelchair users by examining the underlying mechanisms of shoulder musculoskeletal adaptation and biomechanics during critical periods of physical growth and maturation.
Nick Pitas, RST
Examination of the efficacy of a community-based leisure walking intervention to promote positive mental health in university students through the elicitation of awe.
Most college students report mental health problems, stressing campus-based mental health resources. As such, there is a need for preventative interventions to proactively enhance mental health and decrease demand for acute care. We propose a walking intervention intended to reduce negative affect, increase positive affect, and enhance mental health outcomes by eliciting awe – a positive emotion triggered by perceptually vast and novel stimuli. Short activities in greenspace can be designed to elicit awe, and improve short and long-term mental health outcomes. Our intervention involves regular walks through nearby greenspace while attending to a set of cues designed to elicit awe.
Rachel Hoopsick, KCH
Elucidating the drivers and mechanisms of moral injury among frontline healthcare workers: A mixed-methods study
COVID-19 highlighted the phenomenon of moral injury (i.e., perpetrating, witnessing, or failing to prevent acts that transgress one’s moral beliefs, values, or ethics) as a possible risk factor for psychiatric problems among healthcare workers. Moral injury is associated with substance use and mental health symptomatology, but it is not well understood what drives moral injury in healthcare settings or through what mechanisms moral injury design, the proposed project will examine the drivers and mechanisms of moral injury among frontline healthcare workers.
2022
- Hyojung Kang
- Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
- Geospatial Variability of Illicit Opioid Use and Disparities in Treatment Resources
- Alicia Kraay
- Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
- Population heterogeneity and behavior change drive risk of COVID-19, norovirus, and rotavirus transmission
2021
- Raj, Mina
- Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
- Towards the development of guidelines for inclusive foods in long-term care
- Hernandez, Manuel
- Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
- Artificial intelligence energy-regulation modeling to predict and classify fatigue levels and types in people with multiple sclerosis: A feasibility study
- Allen, Jacob
- Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
- Gastrointestinal And Metabolic Effects from a Prebiotic, Lifting, and Aerobic iNtervention (GAMEPLAN)
2020
- Zou, Sharon
- Assistant Professor, Recreation, Sport and Tourism
- Exploring an Efficient and Equitable Entrance Fee for Public Lands: A Community-based Investigation in the Indiana Dunes National Park
2019
- Mattie (Hahn), Laura
- Assistant Professor, Speech and Hearing Science
- Impact of Child and Maternal Gestures on Word Learning in Down Syndrome
- Khan, Naiman
- Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
- Role of Omega-3 Lipid Metabolites in Obesity and Cognitive Function
- Konopka, Adam
- Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
- Establishing the common marmoset as a model of age-related osteoarthritis
2018
- Berdychevsky, Liza
- Assistant Professor, Recreation, Sport and Tourism
- Tailored Internet -Based Sexual Health Education for Older Adults: Conducting Seniors’ Needs Assessment and Developing the Messages
- Mejía, Shannon
- Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
- Intraindividual Dynamics of Fall Risk
- Monson, Brian
- Assistant Professor, Speech and Hearing Science
- Capturing perinatal auditory experience
- Wilund, Ken
- Associate Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
- Implementation of an Anti-Hypertensive Medication Deprescribing Protocol in Hemodialysis Clinics
For more information, please contact Wendy Bartlo at wbartlo@illinois.edu
Grant Database
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Use the grant database, Grant Forward, to look for any funding opportunities that are compatible with your research interests.
Campus Funding
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The Jump Applies Research for Community Health through Engineering and Simulation program in partnership with the University of Illinois College of Engineering.