Janice, Tony, Mira receive Population and Health Seed Grant Won!

Congratulations are in order.
Anthony Roberto, Janice Raup Krieger, and Mira Katz (Public Health) have been awarded $59,510 through the Population and Health Targeted Investment in Excellence initiative with funds provided by the Provost's Office for their proposal, Development of a Community-based Intervention to Improve Acceptance of the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine in Appalachia.
This is a really exciting opportunity to develop a major funded line of research on this timely topic with a population with unduly high cervical cancer rates.
And I can say (as a member of the review team--recused of course from review of their proposal) that this seed money competition involved many senior scholars and sophisticated proposals from around campus; this award meant that a diverse review group including representation from economics, psychology, and public health all found the proposal exciting and well-conceived.