Published: 07/08/2019
Following is an archive of Global Health Seed Grant recipients listed by year of award.
2022 Seed Grant Awardees
Assessing Salmonella Typhi contamination of water in urban settings of Liberia
Principal investigators: Seth Ari Sim-Son Hoffman, Stephen P. Luby, Jason Andrews, Alexandria Boehm
Community group model building to identify systemic barriers and facilitators of postpartum depression care delivery for the floating population in Shanghai
Principal investigators: Gary Darmstadt, Carmen Lee
Funders: Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford Center for Asian Research and Education
Community responses and the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic in indigenous communities in Mexico
Principal investigators: Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, Beatriz Magaloni
Effects of improved oxygen management practices and technology on management of retinopathy of prematurity in sub-Saharan Africa
Principal investigators: Sarthak Shah, Scott Lambert
Healthy Schools – diabetes awareness and prevention education in India
Principal investigator: S.V. Mahadevan
Co-PIs: Latha Palaniappan, Nalini Saligram
Impact of Economic Sanctions on Maternal and Child Health
Primary investigators: Paul H. Wise, Ruth M. Gibson
Contributors – Aleksandra Kirilakha, Maja Pleic, Alexa Hui, Sebastien Bradley, Constantinos Syropoulos, Yoto Yotov
Funders: Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health
Implementing a quality assurance program for Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Rwanda
Principal investigators: Michelle Feltes, Enoch Obeng, Patrick Lanter
Funders: Stanford Emergency Medicine
Implementation of the ENTRUST platform for global surgical education and high-stakes assessment in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
Principal investigators: Dana T. Lin; Cara A. Liebert
Funders: Stanford Department of Surgery
Improving healthcare resiliency by enhancing natural ventilation in Liberian healthcare facilities
Principal investigators: Jorge Salinas, Thomas Michael Baer
Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy: a potential child growth intervention?
Investigators: Jade Benjamin-Chung, Prasanna Jagannathan, Abel Kakuru
Funders: Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health
Local Voices Network: Pilot of an intervention for supporting youth and elders with ecoanxiety in Nigeria, US, UK
Principal investigators: Britt Wray, Daryn Reicherter
Reducing spread of COVID-19 in households through low-cost ventilation/filtration devices; N95 respirators; and a safer-home checklist
Principal investigator: Abraar Karan
Team: Steve Luby; Vivian Levy; Priscilla Romero; Jorge Salinas; Lynn Hildemann
Scaling sanitation to safeguard human and planetary health: designing, evaluating, and deploying urine separation and treatment
Primary investigators: William Tarpeh, David Lobell
Funders: Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Social-ecological connections between seafood borne disease and food security in the central Pacific
Primary Investigators: Fiorenza Micheli, Christopher Knight, Jacob Eurich, Christopher Golden, Larry Crowder
2021 Seed Grant Award Winners
Direct empirical estimates of the health burden of air pollution in developing countries
Primary Investigators: Marshall Burke, Sam Heft-Neal
Funders: Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health
Extreme weather events and pediatric emergency medical services utilization: Analysis of a million ambulance transports across seven states in India
Primary Investigators: Matthew C. Strehlow, Jennifer A. Newberry, Tavpritesh Sethi
Funders: Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health
Investigating Animal-Sourced Food as a Global Risk for Urban Rift Valley Fever Disease Spread and Emergence
Primary Investigators: A Desiree LaBeaud, Keli N Gerken, Krish Seetah
Funders: Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health
Modeling the Aggregate Effects of Structural Uncertainty and Their Effects on Epidemic Control
Primary Investigators: James Holland Jones, Margaret Levi
Funders: Open Philanthropy Project, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health
Compounding impacts of climate and land use change on human schistosomiasis in Brazil
Primary Investigators: Giulio De Leo, Erin Mordecai
Research team: Susanne Sokolow, Andy Chamberlin, Thiago De Almeida Pereira, Kaitlyn Mitchell, Julie Pourtois, Roberta Lima Caldeira, Roseli Tuan, Miguel Vieira Monteiro
Funders: Woods Institute for the Environment, Bob & Kathy Burke, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health
The Political Economy of Environmental Externalities and their Impacts on Health: Evidence from Crop Residue Burning in South Asia
Primary Investigators: Saad Gulzar
Funders: Sean N Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health
Development and Testing of a Prehospital Maternal Emergency Obstetric Warning Score (MEOWS) in India
Primary Investigators: Peter Acker, Matthew Strehlow, Sindhya Rajeev
Funders: Stanford King Center for Global Development, Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global HealthREAD MORE ABOUT THE 2021 GLOBAL HEALTH SEED GRANTS
2020 Seed Grant Award Winners: Special COVID-19 Call
Pilot for CA-FACTS (Californians Fighting Against Coronavirus Together Study)
Principal Investigators: Julie Parsonnet, Jason Andrews, Taia Wang
Research Team: Bela Matyas, Sara Cody
Point-of-Care N95 Respirator Decontamination Using Humid Heat
Principal Investigators: Paul Yock, Craig Comiter, Tulio Valdez
Research Team: Lawrence Domingo, Avril Jiao, Niki Panich, Jacqueline Speed, Jason Qian, Bryce Yao
Quantitative, chip-based anti-SARS-Cov2 antibody detection with optical metasurfaces
Principal Investigators: Jennifer Dionne, Scott Boyd, Mark Holodniy, Manu Prakash, Butrus Khuri-Yakub, Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, Stefanie Jeffrey
Research Team: Mark Lawrence, Lisa Poulikakos, Amr Saleh, Doa’a Saleh
Rapid development of guidelines for low-cost PPE evaluation and decontamination for resource-limited settings
Principal Investigators: Manu Prakash, Thomas Weiser, Stephen Luby
Research Team: Thomas Baer, Ashley Styczynski, Shailabh Kumar, Laura Kwong, Yasmin Reyes, Marlene Wolfe, Alliya Qazi, Helen Pitchik, Yoshika Crider, Nicole Starr, Ajay Pillarisetti
Effects of COVID-19 on Health Seeking Behavior, Stigma and Livelihoods, and Disease Surveillance in Urban Slums in Mumbai
Principal Investigators: Grant Miller, Suhani Jalota
Research Team: Myna Mahila Foundation, India
2020 Seed Grant Award Winners
School Health Promotion in Grenada: Empowering Youth as Lifelong Agents of Change
Principal Investigator: Desiree LaBeaud
Research Team: Abby King and the Grenadians
Sub-clinical disease and gut microbial carriage of Schistosoma mansoni in adult women in rural Burkina Faso
Principal Investigator: Ami Bhatt
Research Team: Scott Hazelhurst, Hermann Sorgho
Integrating kidney health assessment in a natural farming experiment in India
Principal Investigator: Shuchi Anand
Research Team: Nikhil Srinivasapura Venkateshmurthy, Lindsay Jaacks
Identify DNA methylations associated with measures of obesity in mother-child pairs in the deprived and global multi-ethnic birth cohorts
Principal Investigator: Mohsen Fathzadeh
Research Team: Mark Cullen, Thomas Quertermous, Michael Snyder, Deborah Lawlor, John Wright, Dan Mason, David Rehkopf, Manuel Rivas, Themistocles Assimes
The Cutaneous Microbiome in Burn Patients: A Novel Source of Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Principal Investigators: Kovi Bessoff, Faith Muchemwa, Michael Snyder
Research Team: Ami Bhatt, David Katzenstein, Prof Emer, John Coller
Leptospirosis in Informal Urban Settlements in Indonesia and Fiji
Principal Investigator: Ben Pinsky
Research Team: Joelle Rosser, Stephen Felt, Giulio De Leo, Stephen Luby, Amelia Turagabeci, Renne Galloway, Ancha Ansariadi
Elucidating the effects of physical and sexual violence on HIV viral load suppression and ART adherence among adolescent girls in Kenya: Prevalence, associations, and targets for future intervention
Principal Investigators: Clea Sarnquist, Yvonne Maldonado, Hellen Barsosio
Research Team: Michael Baiocchi
Perinatal Transmission Dynamics of Antimicrobial Resistance in Bangladesh: A comparison of hospital- and home-based births
Principal Investigators: David Relman, Eric Foote
Research Team: Ashley Styczynski, Mohammed Badrul Amin, Utpal Mondal, Md. Mahbubur Rahman, Fahim Tajwar
2019 Seed Grant Winners
Peter Meaney, Charles G. Prober, Joshua Salomon, Ambrose Agweyu, Adolfine Hokororo, Christine L. Joyce, Segolame Setlhare, Kathryn A. Taubert: Development, Feasibility and Pilot Testing of a Digital Learning and Performance Assessment Platform for Healthcare Providers who care for Seriously Ill Children
Nicolas Cuttriss, Yvonne (Bonnie) Maldonado, Jason Wang, Diana Naranjo, Linda Baer, Paulina Mantilla, Manuel Baldeon, Marco Fornasini: Leveraging patient registries and educational outreach models to build capacity for underserved global type 1 diabetes communities: Project ECHO T1D pilot and feasibility in Ecuador
Lawrence Wein, Halwest Mohammed: Sequential Optimization of the Demining Process
William Tarpeh, Becaye Sidy Diop: Creating Value from Fecal Sludge: Producing Ammonia Disinfectants Electrochemically in Dakar, Senegal
Pascaline Dupas, Dedevi Saka Marie Christine Apedo Amah, Yao N’dri: Remote Assistance and Coaching Helpline (REACH): an innovative approach to improving the quality of public healthcare in rural Cote d’Ivoire with community participation.
Lambertus Hesselink, Maya Ramachandran, Ashwini Ramamoorthy, Anna Von Wendorff: Scopi, Low-cost Nasoendoscope
Giulio De Leo, Michele Barry, Kinari Webb, Susanne Sokolow, Isabel Jones, Andrea Lund, Zac Liu, Andy Chamberlin: Relationship between health care, rainforest conservation, and human well-being: evaluating impact of a 10 year program in Borneo
Kristen Aiemjoy, Jason Andrews, Jivan Shakya, Biraj Karmacharya, Benjamin Arnold: Integrated serologic surveillance for infectious disease transmission and vaccine-acquired immunity by fingerstick dried blood spots
2018 Seed Grant Winners
Niaz Banaei, in the Department of Pathology: Noninvasive diagnosis of tuberculosis through detection of cell-free DNA in plasma and urine
Sherry Wren, in the Department of Surgery, and Paul Wise, in the Department of Pediatrics: Improving the humanitarian response to civilians injured on the modern battlefront
Pascaline Dupas, in the Department of Economics: Mobile-izing community health workers: A randomized controlled trial in Malawi
Gary Darmstadt, in the Department of Pediatrics, and Natalie Fischer in the Department of Medicine-Infectious Diseases: Impact of a novel barrier repair therapy on the skin and gut microbiome and the prevention of atopic diseases in children in Bangladesh
David Relman, in the Department of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology, and Elizabeth Costello, in the Department of Medicine: Gut microbiota acquisition and maturation over the first two years of life in a cohort of rural Bangladeshi children assessed for environmental enteric dysfunction
Robert Chang, in the Department of Ophthalmology: Machine learning for eye care in Nepal: Expanding access and improving care
Jason Andrews and Alexander Yu, in the Department of Medicine-Infectious Diseases: Relationship of typhoidal Salmonella in water with human typhoid fever and climate
Clea Sarnquist, in the Department of Pediatrics, and Michael Baiocchi, in the Department of Medicine: Mental health issues and violence among adolescents in the Nairobi slums: Can empowerment programs prevent or mitigate both?
Jennifer Keller, in the Department of Psychiatry: Linguistic and cultural adaptation of the Building Empowerment and Resilience Program for adolescent girls in Gujarat, India
2017 Seed Grant Winners
Desiree LaBeaud, in the Department of Pediatrics: Complex Data and Deep Learning for Disease Outbreak Prediction
Jennifer Newberry, in the Department of Emergency Medicine: Impact Analysis of a Comprehensive Gender-Based Violence Helpline in Gujarat, India
Homero Rivas, in the Department of Surgery: Scaling access to care in rural Mexico via Digital Health, Telemedicine and Drones
Robert Shafer, in the Department of Medicine-Infectious Diseases: Building HIV Drug Resistance Testing Capacity in LMICs – A Multidisciplinary Approach
Shruti Sheth, in the Department of Medicine: Point-of-care breast cancer capacity building and molecular diagnostic classification in Nigeria
Rebecca Walker, in the Department of Emergency Medicine: Improving Access to Quality Prehospital Emergency Care in Rural Nepal Through the Creation and Implementation of a Prehospital Care Protocol Mobile Application
2016 Seed Grant Winners
Shuchi Anand, in the Department of Medicine – Nephrology: CKDu in Sri Lanka: developing standard clinical criteria and a laboratory model
Ami Bhatt, in the Department of Medicine-Hematology: Microbiome in the extremes of BMI in the African continent
Lynn Hildemann, in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Designing preferred windows to maximize household ventilation in urban slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Erin Mordecai, in the Department of Biology, and Desiree LaBeaud, in the Department of Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases: Predicting dengue transmission in a changing climate
Krish Seetah, in the Department of Anthropology: Integrating climatic, genomic and archeo-historic data: a proof-of-concept study to improve malaria ‘early-warning’ predictive models
Samuel So, in the Department of Surgery: A novel, smartphone-based point of care diagnostic device for quantitative and multiplexed testing of chronic hepatitis B infection, infectivity, immunity, and treatment response
2015 Seed Grant Winners
In response to an urgent need to combat the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, seed grant funding in 2015 was awarded to teams of investigators to developing novel drugs and diagnostics and mapping the epidemic to help prevent further outbreaks. Read more about the Ebola Innovation grants and winning proposals.
Ann Arvin, Vice Provost and Dean of Research: Development of a novel high-throughput, virus-free assay to identify antibodies and drugs that interfere with Ebola infection by blocking virus entry into host cells
Utkan Demirci, Associate Professor of Radiology: Rapid Detection of Ebola Virus in Resource-Limited Settings
Shirit Einav, Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Microbiology and Immunology: Saftey and Efficacy of approved anticancer drugs as novel strategy to combat Ebola
Zhiyuan Song, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology: Dynamically evaluating and mapping Ebola outbreak risks in West and Central Africa in response to social-environmental changes
Eugene Richardson, postdoctoral scholar in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine: Social Epidemiology of Ebola
2014 Seed Grant Winners
Shirit Einav & Vijay Pande, in the Department/Division of Medicine/Infectious Diseases & Chemistry: Repurposing entacapone as an antiflaviviral drug
Ian Connolly, Jeffrey Yang, James Patell, in the Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Graduate School of Business, & miraclefeet.org: Miraclefeet Brace
Laura Kwong & Steve Luby, in the Departments of Civil/Environmental Engineering & Medicine: Exposure Assessment to Pesticides, Heavy Metals, and Fecal Contamination of Children under 24 Months Old in Rural Bangladesh
2013 Seed Grant Winners
Julie Parsonnet, in the Department/Division of Medicine/Infectious Diseases: Exploratory study of sustainability of probiotic use in Bangladeshi infants
Eran Bendavid, in the Department of Medicine/General Medical Disciplines: HealthTrax: Solving Health Transportation Challenges Using a Geographic Information Systems Tool in Southern Zambia
Abby King, in the Department of Health Research & Policy: Nuestra Voz – Mexico
Saraswati Kache & Eric Nelson, in the Department of Pediatrics: Advancing Cholera Outbreak Management with Mobile Technology
2012 Seed Grant Winners
Paul Yock & Anna Messner, in the Department/Division of Med/CV-Med & Otolaryngology: Newborn hearing screening in the developing world – toward implementation of a novel device and innovative model of service delivery
Sakti Srivastava, in the Department of Surgery/Anatomy: An Automated, Text Message-Based Reminder System to Improve Childhood Vaccination Rates in Delhi and Warangal, India
Sindy Tang & Jianghong Rao, in the Departments of Mech. Engineering & Radiology: Point-of-care diagnosis of Tuberculosis by digitization and concentration of reporter enzyme fluorescence in microfluidic picoliter droplets
Paul Blumenthal & Jayakumar Rajadas, in the Departments/Division of Ob/Gyn & BioADD Service Center: Initiative for Innovative Longer-Acting Injectable Contraceptives