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The following selection of recently awarded grants exemplifies the outstanding achievement and national recognition earned by members of the Harvard Chan School community. Each grant reflects not only the exceptional caliber of our faculty and researchers, but also the transformative impact of their work addressing critical public health challenges, advancing equity, and fostering innovation on a global scale. 

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Arnold Ventures awarded Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health up to $1.5M to evaluate how evolving federal and state reforms shape care delivery, market dynamics, coverage patterns, and outcomes for people dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Led by Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, the work encompasses a multi-institutional effort to understand strategies that can improve care and outcomes for this population.  

Jessalyn M. Ubellacker, MD, PhD ’18, Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Metabolism, received a $1M AACR Trailblazer Cancer Research Grant for Early-Stage Investigators from the American Association for Cancer Research to explore a novel approach to strengthening the body’s immune response to cancer. Her team will study whether triggering a specific stress response in cancer cells can help the immune system recognize and attack tumors more effectively, with the goal of reducing the likelihood of cancer spreading to other parts of the body.  

Jorge E. Chavarro, SM ’03, MD, ScD ’06, Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor in the departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, received an over $800K grant from Société des Produits Nestlé to investigate how nutritional factors shape women’s health across the menopausal transition using data from the Nurses’ Health Study 3. Leveraging detailed dietary assessments, symptom reports, and other data, the project aims to identify dietary patterns that may ease menopausal symptoms, influence the timing of natural menopause, and promote healthy aging in midlife women. 

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Rita Hamad, AB’03, MD, PhD, Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Social Policies for Health Equity Research Center, received nearly $300K from the William T. Grant Foundation to examine how changes in immigrant eligibility for state Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit policies shape economic, educational, and health inequalities among youth in immigrant families. Using 25 years of nationally representative survey data and cutting-edge experimental methods, Dr. Hamad will seek to generate policy-relevant evidence to inform federal and state debates on poverty reduction, immigrant inclusion, and racial equity in youth outcomes. 

Fundación ASISA has renewed its longstanding support of trainees within CAUSALab with a new $180Kpledge to the ASISA Fellowship Fund. This commitment will help train and support ASISA Fellows—early-career investigators advancing clinical research methods, with an emphasis on health care data, causal inference, and artificial intelligence—continuing a program that started in 2010 to develop leaders in this emerging field. Including this new pledge, Fundación ASISA has committed over $900K to the ASISA Fellowship program since its inception.  

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