The goal of CoHRR’s seed awards is to provide support for faculty members to develop and strengthen new lines of health-related research that will ultimately be developed into larger proposals for external funding.
CoHRR’s mission is to generate and disseminate scientific knowledge to improve human health, functioning, participation, and quality of life among all individuals, groups, and communities. To that end, CoHRR supports interdisciplinary collaboration within and outside NYU Steinhardt that furthers basic, applied, and translational health research. The seed award program is open to all projects that fit this broad mission, with a particular interest in supporting early-career investigators, interdisciplinary research, and research that centers individuals and groups who have been historically marginalized in health-related research.
CoHRR Seed Awards offer support for projects that "seed" or "pilot" new research topics that are larger in scope, and where faculty members hope to secure future external funding. The maximum allowable budget is $12,000 and projects typically last 12-18 months. CoHRR seed awards are intended to fund new projects, and are not designed to support already-funded or ongoing research projects.
Potential applicants should review the CoHRR Seed Awards Competition Guidelines for further details.
2023 CoHRR Seed Award Recipients
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Greater research on the mechanisms supported by art-making can lead to substantial policy changes for healthcare reform and the inclusion of the arts in treatment. The positive benefits of community-based art making have been documented by existing research. To reform models of healthcare, more emphasis should be placed on integrative intervention. Such innovation signals greater cross-disciplinary collaborations to effectively treat both mind and body when disease symptoms emerge. Most intervention solely targets one facet of the person. Art therapy intervention, in a community-based, accessible setting affords participants to gain greater agency in disease mitigation.
This study hypothesizes significant outcomes for people with disease after engaging in cycles of 10-week artist residencies, supported by art therapists. This venture examines the benefits of art-making supported by graduate art therapy students and faculty, tracks physiological changes through Rusk Rehabilitation and Tandon–developed technologies, and offers critical education on inclusive, culturally attuned healthcare curated by the graduate arts administration program for the NYU Langone medical community.
PI: Marygrace Berberian, Clinical Assistant Professor or Art Therapy, Art and Art Professions, NYU Steinhardt
Disability Inclusion Vice Chair, PI: John Ross Rizzo, Ilse Melamid Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, NYU Langone/NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Advisor: Yao Wang, Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
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Implementation of promising evidence-based interventions (EBI) is notably delayed in clinical practice for stroke rehabilitation. The urgent call for increased hybrid-effectiveness trials is a clear indication that implementation research and intervention development must occur in tandem in order to minimize the 17-year evidence gap. The Use My Arm-Remote (UMA-R) combines several EBI (e.g., task specific practice, telerehabilitation, and shared decision-making approaches) into a UE self-training protocol delivered remotely to promote actual arm use, defined as spontaneous use of the affected UE in real world settings. We recently completed an initial feasibility study of the UMA-R protocol, funded by the American Occupational Therapy Foundation. Since the ultimate goal is to implement the UMA-R within an outpatient occupational therapy setting, the next step will be to complete a process evaluation to assess and identify the specific implementation needs of the UMA-R. The objective of this study is to complete a process evaluation and develop an implementation blueprint for the UMA-R protocol within the context of an outpatient occupational therapy clinic.
PI: Grace Kim, Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy, NYU Steinhardt
Collaborator/Advisor: Lisa Juckett, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy, Ohio State University
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Psoriasis is a chronic, autoimmune skin condition affecting up to 6.7 million adult Americans and is associated with numerous psychological and social problems, including depression, anxiety, impaired social functioning, decreased work productivity or unemployment, and reduced quality of life. Individuals with psoriasis typically experience several co-morbid conditions, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity. The relationship between psoriasis and obesity is complex; however, achievement of a healthy body weight may reduce the disease burden and improve treatment response. Unfortunately, individuals with psoriasis face numerous barriers and challenges that impede their ability to engage in recommended lifestyle behaviors. Although the National Psoriasis Foundation strongly recommends dietary weight reduction in overweight/obese patients with psoriasis, the weight loss needs and wants among this population remain unknown.
The goal of this project is to determine the preferred intervention characteristics and acceptability of a lifestyle intervention to reduce body weight and inflammation in overweight/obese individuals with psoriasis. An online survey will be distributed to assess the preferred intervention characteristics and acceptability of a lifestyle intervention among overweight/obese individuals with psoriasis. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted to determine the knowledge of an anti-inflammatory diet for psoriasis and acceptability of lifestyle behaviors (diet, physical activity) as methods to achieve a healthy body weight. Mixed methods data integration techniques will be used to match, merge, and weave the quantitative and qualitative findings. Our expected outcomes are to develop an evidenced-based, tailored, and illness-specific intervention to be used in future research that addresses the burden of psoriasis in overweight/obese individuals.
PI: Kathleen Woolf, Associate Professor of Nutrition, NYU Steinhardt
Co-Investigator: Allison P. Squires, Associate Professor of Nutrition, NYU Rory Myers College of Nursing
Questions
If you have questions about the CoHRR seed program, including questions about the application package or budget development, please email cohrr.research@nyu.edu.