Sponsored Project Awards

Patricia Stone, PhD, FAAN, Co-Director PhD Program, Director of the Center for Health Policy, Centennial Professor in Health Policy, received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) for the public health grant, “Qualitative Study of the Implementation of Legal Interventions to Reduce Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI).” This study aims to examine the variation and implementation of state HAI reporting regulations. Jacqueline Merrill, RN, MPH, DNSc, and Julie Regan, PhD, JD, are the study co-investigators. (05/01/2012)

Jingjing Shang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Nursing, received funding from the Center for Health Policy for her study "Using the Outcome and Assessment Information Set Dataset to Study Healthcare Associated Infections in Home Care Settings." This pilot study will describe the epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in home care settings, addressing an important challenge in clinical practice, where nurses play a critical role. (04/01/2012)