Awarded Research Grants

UCF College of Health Professions and Sciences

Health Sciences

Dog-Facilitated Physical Activity: A Culturally Tailored mHealth Intervention to Promote Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior Among Hispanic/Latinx Families with Children

  • PI: Qianxia Jiang
    • Amount: $12,000 | Timeframe: 03/01/2025 - 02/28/2026
    Funding Type: Internal
    Funding Agency: UCF Seed Funding Tier-1 2024-2025 cycle
    Health Sciences

    Feasibility of the Physical Activity and Connectivity for Testicular Cancer Survivors (PACT) program

  • PI: Michael J. Rovito
  • Co-PI: Keith Brazendale
    • Amount: $238,919 | Timeframe: 07/24/2025 - 06/30/2026
    Funding Type: Extramural Research
    Funding Agency: Florida Department of Health - Cancer Innovation
    Health Sciences

    Investigating the Impact of mHealth and Peer Health Coaching on Campus Recreation Participation Among Non-users

  • PI: A’Naja Newsome
    • Amount: $11,238 | Timeframe: 11/01/2025 - 10/31/2027
    Funding Type: Extramural Research
    Funding Agency: NIRSA Foundation
    Health Sciences

    Feasibility and Acceptability of a Pediatric Referral to Summer Day Camps to Treat Obesity in Children from Low-Income Households

  • PI: Keith Brazendale
    • Amount: $453,549 | Timeframe: 09/12/2025 - 08/31/2027
    Funding Type: Extramural Research
    Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health – NINR
    Health Sciences

    Drug Treatment as Disease Prevention: Reducing Sexually Transmitted Infection Risk among Women Who Use Drugs

  • PI: Joy D. Scheidell
    • Amount: $152,000 | Timeframe: 05/15/2024 - 04/30/2026
    Funding Type: Extramural Research
    Funding Agency: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
    Health Sciences

    Mediators of Disparity of Quality of Life in Hispanic Breast Cancer Survivors

  • PI: Eunkyung “Muriel” Lee
    • Amount: $98,692 | Timeframe: 07/01/2023 - 06/01/2024
    Funding Type: Foundation/Industry
    Funding Agency: FL Breast Cancer Foundation
    Health Sciences

    Dose-Response Effect of Exercise on Depression and BDNF in Sedentary Young Adults

  • PI: A’Naja Newsome
    • Amount: $10,000 | Timeframe: 07/01/2023 - 06/01/2024
    Funding Type: Foundation/Industry
    Funding Agency: American College of Sports Medicine Foundation (ACSM)
    Health Sciences

    Overdose Risk Management and Compensation in the Era of Naloxone

  • Co-PI: Joy D. Scheidell
    • Amount: $15,000 | Timeframe: 06/01/2023 - 05/01/2024
    Funding Type: Extramural Research
    Funding Agency: Sponsor: NYU, Prime: NIH
    Health Sciences

    RF: Development and Validation of the Collegiate Recreation Constraints and Negotiations Scale

  • PI: A’Naja Newsome
    • Amount: $9,055 | Timeframe: 10/01/2021 - 12/31/2024
    Funding Type: Foundation/Industry
    Funding Agency: NIRSA Foundation
    Health Sciences

    Cardiometabolic Status of Adults Living with HIV in Colón, Panama

  • PI: Humberto Lopez Castillo
    • Amount: $355,400 | Timeframe: 09/01/2022 - 06/30/2024
    Funding Type: Extramural Research
    Funding Agency: Fogarty International Center

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