Funded Research

Funded Research for Tenured and Tenure Track Professors 

(October 2023)

Ciro, Dianne (Assistant Professor)

CURRENT RESEARCH GRANTS

Outreach and Education Grant - Keeney/Ciro (Co-PI) - 04/14/2023 – 12/31/2023
Western Regional Agricultural Stress Assistance Program (WRASAP)
Tailoring the Changing Our Mental and Emotional Trajectory (COMET) Training to Address the Secondhand Effects of Substance Abuse Among Hispanic/Latino Migrant Farmworkers
Awarded Funds: $10,000
Role: Co-PI

Development Grant - Keeney/Ciro (Co-PI) - 04/14/2023 – 12/31/2023
Western Regional Agricultural Stress Assistance Program (WRASAP)
Changing Our Mental and Emotional Trajectory (COMET) Training to Tailor Curriculum for Hispanic Latino Migrant Farmworker Populations
Awarded Funds: $1,620
Role: Co-PI

U54 MD012397 - Ayala/Wells (MPI) - 09/11/2018 – 05/31/2023
NIH/NIMHD
SDSU HealthLINK Center for Transdisciplinary Health Disparities Research
Awarded Funds: $50,000
Role: Pilot Project Lead

COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANTS

SDSU - Ciro (PI) - 2019-2020
College of Health and Human Services
Building knowledge from in-depth interviews with individuals who have a first-hand understanding of the psychosocial needs, coping, and resilience of mothers and children separated at the southern border
Awarded Funds: $7,000
Role: PI

Ebor, Megan (Assistant Professor)  

$60,000 – San Diego Center for AIDS Research. Strategies to Enhance Prevention Equity (StEP Equity), April 2023

$1,500 – Inclusive Excellence Faculty Fellowship. San Diego State University, Center for Inclusive Excellence, Role: Fellow (Ebor), Summer 2022.

$11,250 – Addiction Scientists Strengthened through Education and Training (ASSET) Fellowship, Role: Fellow (Ebor), Summer 2022.

$3,000 – Grants Research and Enterprise Writing (GREW) Fellowship, San Diego State University, Research and Innovation, Role: Fellow (Ebor), Summer 2022.

$5,000 – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) UCLA HIV/AIDS, Substance Abuse, and Trauma Training Program (HA-STTP). (R25DA035692), The UCLA HIV/AIDS, Substance Abuse, and Trauma Training Program is a collaboration of the Center for Culture, Trauma and Mental Health Disparities (CCTMHD), the UCLA AIDS Institute and the Center for HIV Identification, Prevention and Treatment Services (CHIPTS). HA-STTP provides multi-disciplinary, state-of-the-art training to better equip postdoctoral fellows and early career investigators to submit and receive NIMH grant funding, Role: Affiliate Scholar (Ebor), Fall 2019 – Spring 2020.

Keeney, Annie (Assistant Professor)

FUNDED RESEARCH GRANTS AND PROJECTS AS KEY PERSONNEL

$611,315- Bridging Differences between Faith and Behavioral Health Professionals: Using Intergroup Dialogue to Improve Agricultural Mental Health Systems, Role: PI (Keeney), CDC/NIOSH, 2022-2025.

$83,147- High Plains and Intermountain Center for Agricultural Health and Safety Planning and Evaluation Core-Center Administration, Role: Evaluator (Keeney, subcontract), CDC/NIOSH (PI: Reynolds, S.), 2022-2027.

$33,000- Evaluation of Fostering Academic Success in Foster Youth, Role: PI (Keeney), Child Welfare Services County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency, 2021-2023.

$26,155- High Plains and Intermountain Center for Agricultural Health and Safety Planning and Evaluation Core-Center Administration, Role: Evaluator (Keeney, subcontract), U54OH008085- 13 (PI: Reynolds, S.), 2021-2022.

$24,481 - Understanding the Mental Health Safety Net for Foreign-born Farmworkers in Colorado and Utah, Role: PI (Keeney), CDC.NIOSH-HICHAS, 2021-2022.

$7,500- Understanding the Impact of Agriculture Occupations on Child Welfare Outcomes in a USMexico Border Region, Role: PI (Keeney), SDSU Seed Grant, January 2022-December 2022.

COMPLETED RESEARCH GRANTS AND PROJECTS
$13,871-Understanding COVID-19 Testing and Vaccine Access for Daytime Farmworkers in Imperial County, Role: PI (Keeney), CDC/NIOSH-Western Center for Agriculture Safety and Health, 2021.

$5,147- Integrating Simulated Client Sessions in Social Work Field Seminar Courses, Role: Co-I (Keeney), San Diego State University Student Affairs, 2020.

Ko, Eunjeong (Professor)

GRANT [FUNDED] 

PI (Ko). California Breast Cancer Research Program (CBCRP), Community Research Collaboration. B28AB5510. Financial Toxicity among Underserved Hispanic Breast Cancer Survivors. $150,000 (8/1/2022-1/30/2024).

PI (Ko). California Breast Cancer Research Program (CBCRP), Diversity Supplemental Award (Andrea Van Bebber). B28AB5510. Financial Toxicity among Underserved Hispanic Breast Cancer Survivors. $10,000 (9/1/2022-5/30/2023).

Project 2 SDSU PI (Ko). U54CA132384 ,2/2 SDSU/UCSD Cancer Center Comprehensive Partnership. National Cancer Institute (NIH-NCI) PI: Madanet & Co-PI: Cripps. Pilot Project “Proyecto Mariposa: Cancer Survivorship Care Planning for Rural Latina Breast Cancer Patients”. $ 265,905 (9/1/2018-8/30/2021). 

Co-I (Ko) U54 MD012397-02 Health Link Pilot Project Award, SDSU Center for Transdisciplinary Health Disparities Research (MPI: Ayala/Wells). Pilot project “Developing a measure for individual, intergenerational, and historical community trauma in the East African community.”  $50,000  PI: Urada, L.  

PI (Ko) San Diego State University, SURP. “Cancer Care Access and Utilization among American Indian/Alaskan Natives (AI/AN) Cancer Patients: Effects of COVID- 19”, $3, 000  (6/7/20 -8/14/20)

Min, Jong Won (Director and Professor)

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

Social Work Education Capacity Expansion (SWECE) grant program by California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI).  SDSU MSW program Expansion on the main campus. Role: PI, Award Amount, $2.43 million (2023-2027).

Social Work Education Capacity Expansion (SWECE) grant program by the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI).  SDSU the establishment of a new BASW program at SDSU-IV. Role: PI, Award amount, $1.29 million (withdrawn). 

Public Behavioral Health (PBH) MSW Training Program. California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC) has launched the statewide Public Behavioral Health (PBH) MSW Training Program to address California’s pressing public behavioral health workforce development needs. (2023-2024). Role: PI, Award Amount ($382,250)

CSU "Faculty-Led Curricular Design for Student Achievement in the CSU”: Gerontology BA proposal for the School of Social Work. The Teagle Foundation, the College Futures Foundation, the CSU Chancellor’s Office, and the SDSU Office for Curriculum, Assessment, and Accreditation. Principal Investigator, $10,468, from September 2022 through June 30, 2023.

Driving Under the Influence (DUI) Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Integration/Outreach Pilot Project. California Association of DUI Treatment Program. PI (May 1, 2019 - September 29, 2021, $115,000). 

Title IV-E Child Welfare Stipend Program for SDSU BSW and MSW Programs by California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC). PI. (July 1, 2020 - present).  

“San Diego Resource Center for Advancing Alzheimer’s Research in Minority Elders (SDRC- ARMS),” Alzheimer’s-related Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (AD-RCMAR) NIA P30 Grant (FOA: RFA-AG-18-002) by UCSD and SDSU. Alison Moore, Hector Gonzalez, John Elder, and Paul Gilbert (co-PIs). A member of the Analysis Core Component. (8/2018 - 7/2023) $3,8 million.  

Nedjat-Haiem, Frances (Associate Professor)

Grant Funding  

Nedjat-Haiem, F.R. (2022) Assigned Time for Exceptional Service: SWORK 596 Social Work in Healthcare course developed and for evaluation. (funded) 

Su, I and Palimino, H. (2021) California Breast Cancer Research Program grant “Evaluating a Multi-Component Intervention for Oncofertility Care in Young Breast Cancer Survivors” (Research Consultant, Dr. Frances Nedjat-Haiem) 

Nedjat-Haiem, F. and Lee, A. (2021). San Diego State University, Instructionally Related Activities (IRA) proposal, “A Workshop Series on Engaging in Practice-Informed Research”, awarded $2,400 

Nedjat-Haiem, F. (Principal Investigator) SDSU HealthLINK Center Pilot Grant Application submitted on January 10th, 2020 resubmitted January 15th, 2021. Integrating Advance Care Planning in Community Settings for Latinos with Chronic Illness: A Feasibility Pilot Study. $50,000. (2021 – 2022). 

Nedjat-Haiem, F. (PI) “Identifying Health Literacy and Cultural Factors for Adapting Advance Care Planning for Latinx with Chronic Illness.” San Diego State University College of Health and Human Services University Grants Program (UGP), $10,000. December 18, 2019 – June 30th, 2021. 

Nicholls, Melanie (Assistant Professor)  

$431,650, NIDA (R21DA056805), “Bupe by the book: Developing and testing a tele-buprenorphine intervention in public libraries with unstably housed persons with opioid use disorder.” 7/15/22-6/30/24  PI: Lianne Urada, PhD, Co-I: Melanie Nicholls

Pitpitan, Eileen (Associate Professor)

ACTIVE

Adapting a novel mental health prevention intervention for migrant mothers with young children in a humanitarian setting (R34MH134047; P: Goldenberg, Shira)
Role: Co-I 
Amount Awarded: $615,668 (2023)
08/16/2023-08/15/2026
National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH/NIH) R34

San Diego Bright SUN: Supporting and Uplifting New and Diverse Scholars through a Career in HIV Research (EDI)
Role: Co-Director (MPI)
$100,000 
08/01/2023-07/31/2024
Center for AIDS Research Administrative Supplement

Estimating Mediation and Moderation Effects in HIV Care Continuum Intervention Trials for People who Use Drugs (R01DA058311)
Role: PI
$3,344,415 
04/01/2023 - 01/31/2028
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA/NIH) R01

“Bupe by the Book:” Developing and Testing a Tele-Buprenorphine Intervention in Public Libraries with Unstable Housed Persons with Opioid Use Disorder (R21DA056805;
PI: Urada, Lianne)
Role: Co-I 
$431,650 
07/01/2022 - 06/30/2024
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA/NIH) R21

San Diego SUN: Supporting and Uplifting New and Diverse Scientists
in HIV (EDI)
Role: Director (PI)
$181,000 
12/01/2021-11/30/2022
NIH P30 Supplement from the CFAR Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Pipeline Initiative

SDSU FUERTE: Faculty United towards Excellence in Research and Transformational Engagement (U54CA267789) (EDI)
Role: Co-Director/Evaluation Core Director
$15,049,864 
09/21/2021-08/31/2026
National Cancer Institute (NCI/NIH) U54

Integration of Peer Navigation and mHealth Technology to Improve Viral Suppression among Racial and Ethnic Minority PLWH in Community- Based HIV Care Clinics (R01DA053167)(EDI)
Role: PI 
$2,663,384 
9/30/2020–8/31/2024
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)(Co-Funded) NIH R01

Addiction Scientists Strengthened though Education and Training (ASSET)(R25DA050724)(EDI)
Role: Co-PI 
$1,303,890 
9/30/2020-8/31/2025
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA/NIH) R25

NEXUS: A novel social network approach to study the effects of
intersectional stigma on HIV prevention among Latino MSM (R01MH123282, PI: Smith)(EDI)
Role: Co-I 
$697,978 (2021)
7/01/2020–04/30/2025
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH/NIH) R01

Intervention to Improve HIV Care Retention and Antiretroviral Adherence in Stigmatized Environments (R01MH119913, PI: Kalichman, Seth) (EDI)
Role: Co-I 
$632,422 (2021)
12/16/2019-11/30/2024
National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH/NIH) R01

Estimating Mediation and Moderation Effects in HIV Incidence Prevention Trials (R01DA042666)
Role: PI 
$2,803,146 
8/1/2018-5/31/2023
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA/NIH) R01

Urada, Lianne (Associate Professor)

Funded Research Grants (partial list)

$431,650, Principal Investigator, NIDA (R21DA056805), “Bupe by the book: Developing and testing a tele-buprenorphine intervention in public libraries with unstably housed persons with opioid use disorder.” 7/15/22-6/30/24

$50,000, Principal Investigator, Nemeth Foundation, “Estimating the nature and extent of human trafficking on college campuses in San Diego-Imperial Counties,” 1/1/2022-3/31/2023.

$50,000, Pilot Project Leader, “Developing a measure for individual, intergenerational, and historical community trauma in the East African community,” HealthLink Pilot Project Award, SDSU Center for Transdisciplinary Health Disparities Research, National Institute of Minority Health Disparities (U54 MD012397 Ayala/Wells, MPIs), 4/1/2020-5/31/2023.

$744,090, Consultant, NIH NIMHD SBIR (2R44MD013644-02 PI: Montoya) Virtual Support System (VSS) mHealth HIV intervention for YBMSM across the Continuum.

$16,000, Principal Investigator of Evaluation, “Evaluating housing and employment outcomes of San Diego Youth Services STARS program human trafficking (CSEC) youth survivors.” U.S. Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crimes, 6/1/2020-8/31/2021.

$988,326, Principal Investigator, “Mujeres Unidas: Community mobilization and HIV/STI epidemiology of female sex workers in Mexico,” National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (K01DA036439), 4/1/14 - 3/31/21.

$10,000 (approx.), Principal Investigator, “Human trafficking/sexual exploitation, housing instability, and food insecurity among college students: An exploratory study,” SDSU Social and Economic Vulnerabilities Initiative Research Fellowship, 8/1/19-1/1/20.

Willner, Lauren (Assistant Professor)

SDSU Division of Research and Innovation
University Grants Program Award
Understanding Organizational Discordance in Social Justice Nonprofit Organizations
Total Awarded: $7500

SDSU FUERTE: Faculty United towards Excellence in Research and Transformational Engagement
Co-Investigator
U54CA267789
09/21/2021-08/31/2026
National Cancer Institute (NCI/NIH) U54
Total Awarded: $15,049,864

SDSU Division of Research and Innovation
Research Center and Institute Support
The Effects of Managerialism in Human Service and Nonprofit Organizations in San Diego and
Los Angeles Counties
Total Awarded: $40,000

SDSU Division of Research and Innovation Research
University Grants Program Award
Understanding Organizational Discordance in Social Justice Nonprofit Organizations
Total Awarded: $10,000

CSUN Office of Community Engagement Seed Grant
Examining the Structural Barriers to Effective Service Provision Within Nonprofit Organizations
Serving the Homeless: A Community-Based Participatory Research Project
Total awarded: $1000

Zuniga, Maria Luisa (Professor)

CURRENT RESEARCH SUPPORT

1 R21 AA 030197-01    Pelham (PI)    03/01/22 - 02/29/24 
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Early Adolescent Drinking. 
Role: Co-Investigator (Subaward PI)  

1U54CA267789    Zúñiga & Reed (Co-PIs) 09/01/2021 - 08/31/2026 
SDSU FUERTE: Faculty United towards Excellence in Research and Transformational Engagement  (Total award $15 million) NIH Reporter link: https://reporter.nih.gov/projectdetails/10362383   

1 R25 DA050724-01A1    Zúñiga & Pitpitan (Co-PIs) 09/30/2020 – 08/31/2025 
(Total award 1.3 million) NIH Reporter link: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10268985

UC San Diego Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) International Pilot Grant  
Bastos (PI)    09/01/2021 – 08/30/2022  
Peer navigation for HIV care continuity in an impoverished Brazilian community.
Role: Co-Investigator 

J. Keith Behner and Catherine M. Stiefel Program on Brazil (SDSU) Zúñiga (PI) 08/01/21 – 06/30/22 
“An Exploratory, Qualitative Study of Health System Disruptions and Impacts of COVID-19 on Health Care for Vulnerable Women Living with HIV or at risk for HIV in an Underserved Community in Rio de Janeiro”  ($3,500).

SDSU HealthLINK Center Pilot Project   Urada (PI)    03/01/20 –02/30/22 
Developing a measure for individual, intergenerational, and historical community trauma in the East African community. ($50,000) [Parent Grant: SDSU Center for Transdisciplinary Health Disparities Research, funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (U54 5U54MD012397-02 PIs: Ayala & Wells)] 
Role: Co-Investigator 

COMPLETED RESEARCH SUPPORT  

S00021291      Buhi (PI)   09/30/17-09/29/21 
DHHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
Community-Based Participatory Approach for Reducing STDs among Latino youth in South Bay, San Diego 
This study involves implementation and evaluation of Community Based Participatory Research project designed to strengthen a youth and sexual-health focused community-academic partnership. 
Role: Co-Investigator  

J. Keith Behner and Catherine M. Stiefel Program on Brazil (SDSU) Zúñiga (PI) 07/01/19 – 06/30/20 
Expanding collaborative research on HIV and addiction to improve patient engagement in health care and treatment for HIV and substance use disorders. ($3,500)  

UCSD/SDSU Cancer Center Comprehensive Partnership Pilot Grant (2U54CA132379-06A1)
Ko and Cardenas (Co-PI’s)    09/01/18-08/31/20 

Proyecto Mariposa: Cancer Survivorship Care Planning for Rural Latina Breast Cancer Patients. Develop and pilot test a novel Patient Navigator-mediated Survivorship Care Planning intervention designed for Latina breast cancer survivors in rural US/Mexico border and evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention 
Role: Co-Investigator 

Pre 2023