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Brown Faculty Awarded Inaugural Community-Academic Research Partnership Fund Support

March 20, 2024
To promote partnership between local community members, organizations and researchers at Brown, the School of Public Health has established new research awards, with inaugural funding for projects impacting Rhode Island’s children and older adults.
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Lower rates of COVID-19 testing and vaccination for night staff at nursing centers

March 21, 2023
Knowing how important staff vaccination coverage levels are to protect nursing center residents, Q&I researchers led efforts to understand barriers to staff vaccine coverage.
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Partnered research opportunity with IMPACT Scholar Program

November 16, 2022
The IMPACT Collaboratory released a new funding opportunity for researchers interested in the Health Care Systems Scholars program.
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Advancing grant writing skills for rehabilitation researchers

November 11, 2022
The LeaRRn program, with partners Center on Health Services Training and Research and The American Occupational Therapy Foundation, announces the second annual Workshop in Implementation Science and Health Services - WISH.
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Insights shared from people living with dementia and caregivers

September 27, 2022
As part of the IMPACT Collaboratory, which funds and supports research to improve dementia care, IMPACT researchers and the Alzheimer’s Association convened a panel of 12 persons living with dementia (PLWD) and care partners, to learn their thoughts about dementia research and related ethical challenges, and published two reports. 
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Transforming Dementia Care: IMPACT Collaboratory Funding Opportunities

July 22, 2022
The IMPACT Collaboratory will be sharing two new grant funding opportunities available to investigators seeking to conduct non-drug dementia studies. The Collaboratory provides funding and support to accelerate the conduct of embedded pragmatic clinical trials to improve care for persons living with dementia and their care partners.
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Community Champions to increase vaccine acceptance among nursing center staff

March 31, 2022
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing center staff have been providing care to vulnerable older adults. Knowing how important staff vaccination coverage levels are to protect nursing center residents, Q&I researchers led several efforts to understand staff vaccine hesitancy and strategies to increase vaccine coverage.
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Transforming Dementia Care: IMPACT Collaboratory Funding Opportunities

February 25, 2022
The IMPACT Collaboratory launched an updated website detailing the training and grant funding opportunities available to investigators seeking to gain skills in pragmatic research and to conduct non-drug dementia studies. The Collaboratory provides the resources necessary to accelerate the pace of embedded pragmatic clinical trials to improve care for persons living with dementia and their families.
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Infection control shift coaching program update

January 18, 2022
Although strict adherence with infection control practices is needed to curb the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in nursing centers, most facilities only have one staff member with specialized infection control training, the infection preventionist.
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Q&I training and infrastructure initiative: IMPACT Collaboratory

November 12, 2021
One of two Q&I training and infrastructure initiatives, the IMPACT Collaboratory provides training and grant funding to expand capacity for pragmatic research and propel efficacious non-drug dementia interventions to full-scale trials.
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Q&I training and infrastructure initiative: LeaRRn Rehabilitation Research Network

November 12, 2021
One of two Q&I training and infrastructure initiatives, LeaRRn provides funding and training opportunities to support expanded national capacity for research conducted in partnership with learning health systems.
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With $4.9M from the CDC, Brown researchers to study COVID vaccine effectiveness in seniors

September 8, 2021
The urgently needed research will be used to inform recommendations about vaccine booster shots for nursing home residents.
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IMPACT Collaboratory expands massive effort to track COVID-19 vaccine effects

May 10, 2021
The National Institute on Aging has awarded a $1.4 million grant to a research team based at Brown University and Hebrew SeniorLife to partner with Walgreens to add customer data to a massive monitoring system of the long-term safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccination for Medicare beneficiaries.

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Nursing home infection control shift coaching program available

April 29, 2021
Q&I's infection control shift coaching program, Infection Control Amplification in Nursing Centers (I CAN), is available to any interested nursing center leaders.
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Training Workshop and Retreat

January 6, 2021
Training Workshop and Retreat: Building Skills to Conduct Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trials Among People Living with Dementia and Their Care Partners
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Team to track adverse impacts of COVID vaccine in nursing home residents

December 22, 2020
This week, the National Institute on Aging awarded a grant to a team of researchers based at Brown University to design a monitoring system to identify and track adverse health impacts after elderly nursing home residents receive COVID-19 vaccinations.

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To examine the effects of COVID-19 on communities, Brown researchers turn to data

December 15, 2020
Funded by the Research Seed Fund, University projects examine effects on nursing homes and medical care.
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Vince Mor describes new study to examine nursing home COVID-19 testing strategies

October 7, 2020
We are excited to announce a new study to test strategies to improve COVID-19 testing and reduce inequities in nursing homes, funded by the National Institutes on Health (NIH) as part of the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics -Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) initiative. We spoke with Professor Vince Mor about this new work:
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Nursing center research partners talk about their experience with tuned lighting

June 17, 2020
Eunice Noell-Waggoner, President of the Center of Design for an Aging Society, recently interviewed two leaders from the ACC Care Center in Sacramento, CA, about their experience implementing tuned lighting.
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IMPACT Collaboratory funds two pilot studies

May 27, 2020
The IMPACT Collaboratory has announced two pilot study awards, to Brent Forester, MD, MSc. at Mass General Brigham, and Ula Hwang, MD, MPH, at the Ican School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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$5.5M grant creates rehabilitation research network

May 19, 2020
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) recently funded our application to create the Learning Health Systems Rehabilitation Research Network (LeaRRn) -- a resource and incubator to advance stakeholder-partnered rehabilitation research that improves quality, demonstrates value, and enhances patient and systems outcomes.
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Talk presents findings from TREC nursing center trial involving performance feedback

April 22, 2020
On April 22, 2020, Matthias Hoben, RN Dr. rer. medic., presented "Improving Nursing Home Care Through Feedback On PerfoRMance Data: The INFORM cluster-randomized controlled trial."
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Talk on COVID-19 care for geriatrics available

April 9, 2020
On April 9, 2020, Dr. Stefan Gravenstein delivered a lecture on "COVID-19 concepts and their application to geriatrics."
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Tuned lighting has a positive effect on sleep

November 29, 2019
A technical report led by Naomi Miller, pictured, and published by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) provides a first glimpse at results from Q&I's feasibility study of programmable, tunable LED lighting in a California nursing home.
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