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"Date" is the date the award was announced in SPH News.

2008

Date	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Award Amount	Funding Agency
3/3/08	Leslie Grant	Technical Assistance: Focus Groups and Survey Development	$3,000	Augustana Care Corp
3/3/08	Robert Kane	Determining Characteristics of Arkansas' Nursing Home Population	$95,360	Area Agency on Aging of NW Arkansas
4/14/08	Jon Christianson	Regional Quality Strategy Planning Grant	$18,252	Pennsylvania State University
4/14/08	Melissa Constantine	DREGAN Project Publications and Data Dissemination	$20,000	Clear Way Minnesota
6/2/08	David Knutson	State Care Coordination Initiatives Technical Assistance	$65,000	MN Dept of Human Services
7/8/08	Kathleen Thiede Call	Oklahoma Survey and Small Area Analysis of Uninsurance	$600,000	Oklahoma Health Care Authority
7/8/08	Bryan Dowd	NRSA Training Grant in Health Services Research	$307,688	DHHS Agency for Healthcare Res and Quality
7/8/08	Robert Kane	Treatment of Intertrochanteric / Subtrochanteric and Subcapital Fractures of the Hip Work	$258,103	DHHS Agency for Healthcare Res and Quality
7/8/08	Robert Kane	Developing Criteria to Assess Quality and Standards to Report the Epidemiologic Studies	$167,125	DHHS Agency for Healthcare Res and Quality
7/8/08	Pinar Karaca Mandic	Analysis of Graduate Driver Licensing: Lower Risk Exposure of Better Driving	$73,311	NIH Natl Inst of Health
7/8/08	William Riley	Developing and Implementing a Call for Proposals (CFP) for Evaluating Quality Improvement Projects in Local Health Departments and Providing Assistance to Successful Grants	$600,000	Robert Wood Johnson FDN

Source. SPH News

2007

Date	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Award Amount	Funding Agency
1/29/07	Lynn Blewett	State Reform Evaluation (SRE) Project	$400,000	Robert Wood Johnson Fdn
2/26/07	Robert Kane	Prevention of Fecal and Urinary Incontinence in Adults	$300,000	DHHS Agency for Healthcare Res and Quality (AHRQ)
2/26/07	William Riley	An Academic Health Center and Public Health Practice Collaboration: Disseminating Continuous Quality Improvement Capability to Local and State Public Health Agencies	$200,002	Robert Wood Johnson Fdn
2/26/07	Douglas Wholey	Public Health System Organization and Performance in Rural Communities	$199,070	Robert Wood Johnson Fdn
4/23/07	Rosalie Kane (PI)	Using NHREegPlus to explore the Nexus of Resident Autonomy, Regulation, and Culture Change: A Planning Grant	$35,000	Hulda B and Maurice L Rothschild Fdn.
4/23/07	Todd Rockwood (PI)	Respondent Driven Sampling	$250,000	Blue Cross Blue Shield of MN FDN Inc.
6/4/07	John Kralewski	The Puerto Rico State Health Planning Project	$272,134	Univ of Puerto Rico
6/4/07	Karen Kuntz	Evaluating Alternative Colorectal Cancer Screening Strategies for the General Population	$47,299	DHHS Agency for Healthcare Res and Quality (AHRQ)
6/4/07	Marshall McBean	Assessment of Herd Immunity Provided by Trivalent-live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine given to Children against Influenza Related Illness among the Elderly	$15,000	Mn Dept of Health
8/6/07	Kathleen Thiede Call	Evaluation of the Community Care Network Project	$14,978	NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTHCARE NETWORK
8/6/07	Karen Kuntz	Disparities in Cancer Prevention and Control	$215,266	DHHS AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RES AND QUALITY
8/6/07	Karen Kuntz	Using Mathematical Models to Project the U.S. Childhood Obesity Epidemic and the Interventions Needed to Reverse It	$37,343	HARVARD UNIVERSITY
9/4/07	Kathleen Thiede Call	Minnesota Health Access 2007	$595,000	MN DEPT OF HEALTH
9/4/07	Jon Christianson	Collaborative Research: I/UCRC Center for Health Organization Transformation (CHOT)	$10,000	NATL SCI FDN (NSF)
10/15/07	Ira Moscovice (PI)	Nursing Workforce Impact on Performance Improvement in the CMS/Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Project (HQID)	$299,986	Robert Wood Johnson FDN
10/15/07	Jeanette Ziegenfuss (PI), Graduate Fellow	Encouraging Eligible Children's Participation in Public Health Insurance: The Role of National Awareness Campaigns	$28,625	DNHS Agency for Healthcare Res and Quality (AHRQ)
11/26/07	Jon Christianson	Regional Market Pilot Initiative: Aligning Forces for Quality	$18,162	Pennsylvania State Univ.
11/26/07	Lois Cutler	State Regulatory Trends and Evidence for Nursing Home Construction Standards	$32,340	The Amer Inst of Architects
11/26/07	Jeffrey McCullough	The Financial and Clinical Efficacy of Mirena in State Medicaid Programs: An Investigation of Cost-Offsets Derived From the Effect of Mirena on Pregnancy Prevention	$15,500	Med Univ of South Carolina
11/26/07	Robert Kane	Minnesota Area Geriatric Education Center	$432,000	HRSA Health RSRC and Svc Admin
11/26/07	Robert Kane	Shared Decision Making for LTC: Pilot Phase	$80,724	Retirement Res Fdn
11/26/07	Rosalie Kane	Small-Nursing Homes and Alzheimer's Disease	$239,992	Alzheimer's Assn

Source. SPH News

2006

Date	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Award Amount	Funding Agency
1/9/06	Lynn Blewett (PI) Mike Davern, Kathleen Call	State Health Access Data Assistance Center	$1,499,450	Robert Wood Johnson Fdn.
1/9/06	Lynn Blewett (PI), Jon Christianson, Susan Foote	State Medicare Impact Profile: Initial Stage	$150,000	Mayo Fdn.
1/9/06	Roger Feldman (PI), Jon Christianson	Evaluation of National DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program	$264,933	CMS
1/9/06	Margaret Brown Good (PI)	Insurance Directions for Every Alabamiam Project	$1,480	HRSA
1/9/06	Marshall McBean (PI), Deb Caldwell, Kyoungrae Jung	Monitoring Chronic Disease Care and Outcomes Among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries with Multiple Chronic Diseases	$381,722	CMS
1/9/06	Robert Kane (PI), Chris Mueller	Nursing Staffing and Quality of Patient Care	$311,077	AHRQ
3/6/06	Lynn Blewett (PI), Kathleen Call, Michael Davern	State Health Access Data Assistance Center	$1,499,450	Robert Wood Johnson Fdn.
3/6/06	Rosalie Kane (PI), Lois Cutler	Full-Scale Implementation and Sustainability of Small Group Nursing Homes in Tupelo, Miss: Lessons for Replication	$24,973	Minn. Medical Fdn.
5/1/06	Beth Virnig (PI)	Does Chemotherapy Cause Dementia in Older Breast Cancer Survivors?	$42,352	St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Lance Armstrong
5/1/06	Lynn Blewett (PI)	Montana Technical Assistance and Evaluation Planning	$83,152	Montana Dept. of Public Health and Human Svc.
9/5/06	Jon Christianson (PI)	Regional Market Pilot Initiative	$106,830	RWJ
9/5/06	Beth Virnig (PI)	Patterns of Cancer Care in the Disabled	$85,507	St. Michael's Hospital
11/27/06	Kathleen Thiede Call (PI)	Illinois Technical Assistance and Evaluation Planning	$50,322	HRSA
11/27/06	Roger Feldman (PI)	Over Trial	$24,000	Veterans Admin
11/27/06	Marshall McBean (PI)	Training FDA Staff for Using Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Data for Research	$59,210	DHHS Food and Drug Admin (FDA)
11/27/06	Beth Virnig (PI)	Validation of Chemotheray and Radiation Theray Dose Information Found in Medicare Claims Data	$45,000	NIH Natl Cancer Institute (NCI)

Source. SPH News

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