Announcement: Winners of 2019 President’s Global Innovation Fund Grants

July 10, 2019

Provost John H. Coatsworth has announced the seventh round of grants from the President’s Global Innovation Fund.

The Fund awards grants for faculty members to leverage and engage the nine Columbia Global Centers. The program supports projects within and across these sites, in order to increase global opportunities for research, teaching, and service. The 14 projects receiving awards this year were selected by a review committee of senior faculty drawn from both the Morningside and medical campuses.

The projects selected in this round all make use of the network of Columbia Global Centers and provide opportunities for faculty and students to address pressing global issues. Many are highly collaborative, with faculty members working across University departments and schools, and partnering with other academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, and research consortia. Information on the program and the previous rounds of funded projects can be found here.

These awards follow six previous rounds of grants from the President’s Global Innovation Fund that have supported 87 projects. Collectively, these projects play an essential role in realizing the potential of the Columbia Global Centers to create new opportunities for faculty and students, and in defining in tangible ways what it means for Columbia to explore new frontiers of knowledge. The full list of funded projects can be found below.



 

PGIF Round 7 Awardees – List of Awards, PIs and Co-PIs

Addressing Research Gaps on Sexual Minority Health in Chile Using the 2016-2017 National Health Survey
Tonda Hughes
Henrik H. Bendixen Professor of International Nursing (in Psychiatry) at the Columbia University Medical Center
School of Nursing
 

Development of Novel Methods and Technologies for the Diagnosis, Monitoring and Treatment of Diabetic Foot Syndrome
Andreas Hielscher
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Radiology (Physics) and Electrical Engineering
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science and 
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Danielle Bajakian
Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Columbia University Medical Center
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
 

Evaluating an Export Promotion Scheme in Tunisia
Eric Verhoogen
Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics
School of International and Public Affairs and Faculty of Arts and Sciences


Health Promotion via Digital Technologies Among Young Refugees in Turkey 
Yanis Ben Amor
Assistant Professor of Global Health and Microbiological Sciences (in Pediatrics and in The Earth Institute) at the Columbia University Medical Center 
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Executive Director, Center for Sustainable Development in The Earth Institute

Goleen Samari
Assistant Professor of Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center
Mailman School of Public Health
 

Improving Capacity to Address Gender-Based Violence: A Public Health and Law Evaluation of a GBV Clinic in Kisumu, Kenya
Terry McGovern
Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center
Chair, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
Mailman School of Public Health

Wafaa El-Sadr
University Professor; Dr. Mathilde Krim-amfAR Professor of Global Health (in Epidemiology)
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
Department of Medicine, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Director, ICAP


Massive Entry of Renewable Energy in Chile: Operation, Storage and Intermittency
Dylan Possamaï
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research    
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
 

Measuring Human Rights Violations and Mortality Amongst Migrants and Refugees in the Sahel Region
Craig Spencer
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center 
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health
 

Oral Health Program Planning and Evaluation: Training for Action with New Partners
Kavita Ahluwalia
Associate Professor of Dental Medicine (Community Health) at the Columbia University Medical Center
College of Dental Medicine

Bill Bower
Special Lecturer in Population and Family Health
Mailman School of Public Health

Linda Cushman
Professor of Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center
Mailman School of Public Health


Planning Columbia-China Musculoskeletal Genetic Center
X. Edward Guo
Stanley Dicker Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Marcella D. Walker
Associate Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
 

Political Economy of Water and Environmental Sustainability in India
Nikhar Gaikwad
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
 

Establishing International Peace Summits in Brazil to Promote the Advancement of Mediation
Alexandra B. Carter
Clinical Professor of Law
School of Law


Starting a Simulation-Based Nursing Education Program in Rural India
Kellie Bryant
Assistant Professor of Nursing at the Columbia University Medical Center
School of Nursing

Jennifer E. Dohrn
Associate Professor of Nursing at the Columbia University Medical Center
School of Nursing
 

The Chilean Next Generation of Seasonal Climate Forecasts
Ángel G. Muñoz 
Associate Research Scientist in the International Research Institute for Climate and Society
The Earth Institute

Lisa Goddard
Director and Senior Research Scientist in the International Research Institute for Climate and Society
The Earth Institute
Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
 

The Sojourner Project South Africa: A Black Mobile Academy
Saidiya V. Hartman
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Mabel O. Wilson
Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Associate Director at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation