TRIP Newsletter - Message #13

TRIP Scholar Receives SoIC Award

Congratulations to TRIP Scholar, Professor Saptarshi Purkayastha, director of Health Informatics at the IUPUI School of Informatics and Computing (SoIC), on receiving a SoIC Award. This award recognizes the exceptional contributions of SoIC staff and instructors that help the school and its students to thrive and excel. Professor Purkayastha has a lab, the Purkayastha Lab for Health Innovation explores research areas including biomedical data analysis, cybersecurity in health care, electronic health records, mobile health and radiology information systems. His lab has received National Science Foundation grants of $599,998 for ”Development of a Secure and Privacy-Preserving Workflow Architecture for Dynamic Data Sharing in Scientific Infrastructures,”   and $826,795 for “Measuring learning gains in man-machine assemblage when augmenting radiology work with artificial intelligence.”

TRIP Scholar Receives Sustainable Development Goals Grant

Congratulations to Professor Becky Liu-Lastres on receiving a Sustainable Development Goals Grant for her research project "Tourism and Sustainable Development in the United States." Her project will evaluate US tourism destinations' performances as they relate to sustainable development goals (SDG). The project will offer a critical evaluation of US tourism destinations' performances, provide best practice solutions for replication and further advancement of the sustainable development goals across the industry, and help guide future research by calling attention to specific challenges destinations are facing towards advancing their work around the SDGs.

TRIP Scholar Receives Sustainable Development Goals Grant

Congratulations to Professor Ukamaka Oruche on receiving a Sustainable Development Goals Grant for her research project "Children's Food Insecurity and Malnutrition in Nigeria." She will lead a project in Nigeria that serves children from 0-5 years old experiencing food insecurity and malnutrition in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic by engaging undergraduate students in nursing courses and supporting parents within the local population. In addition to aiding in the physical development and wellbeing of the children and providing parents with educational resources to promote proper nutrition, the project will enhance students' knowledge of nutritional needs within the global community and examine the role nurses play in promoting good health and wellbeing. 

TRIP Scholar Receives Virtual Global Learning Fellows Grant

Congratulations to Professor Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow on receiving a Virtual Global Learning Fellows Grant. The Virtual Global Learning Fellows Grant Program provides support for a cohort of IUPUI, IUPUC, and IUFW faculty and staff members to facilitate curricular and co-curricular global learning activities in a virtual environment through the use of video conferencing technology, as well as discussion boards, collaborative platforms, and messaging tools. 

TRIP Scholar Receives Virtual Global Learning Fellows Grant

Congratulations to Professor Chalmer Thompson on receiving a Virtual Global Learning Fellows Grant. The Virtual Global Learning Fellows Grant Program provides support for a cohort of IUPUI, IUPUC, and IUFW faculty and staff members to facilitate curricular and co-curricular global learning activities in a virtual environment through the use of video conferencing technology, as well as discussion boards, collaborative platforms, and messaging tools. 

TRIP Scholars Receive Global Impact Research Grant

Congratulations to Professor Broxton Bird and Professor Gabriel Filippelli on receiving the Global Impact Research Grant for their project called "Builing Community Resilience to Climate Shocks in the Indian Himalayan." Together with the Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi School of Advanced Studies, IUPUI will lead a two-day workshop focused on tackling Zero Hunger, Gender Equality, Climate Action, and Partnerships for the Goals. The goals of the workshop are: 1.) To help participants, including academics, policy planners, and civil society and non-governmental organization representatives, to understand the water resource and agricultural challenges faced by mountain communities, and 2.) For participants to create an action plan that can be utilized in their home communities to address these challenges. Following the workshop, IUPUI will work with the Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development, and the National Science Foundation to conduct research and continue to work with participants. Professor Lixin Wang and Professor Suzanne Babich are also members of the research team.

TRIP Scholars Receive Global Impact Research Grant

Congratulations to Professor Khadija Khaja and Professor Ukamaka Oruche on receiving the Global Impact Research Grant for their project called "Community Engaged Assessment of Mental Health Services and Research Infrastructure to Improve Access to Care for Adults with mhGAP Disorders in Nigeria." IUPUI, in collaboration with Nigerian universities Nnamdi Azikiwe University and the University of Port Harcourt, will lead research aimed at advancing Good Health and Wellbeing and reducing unequal care of patients with mental, neurological, and substance use disorders in low- and middle-income countries, including the south-eastern region of Nigeria. Investigative teams at the universities will recruit participants and lead focus group discussions to explore differing perspectives on treatment pathways with patients living with these disorders. In addition to the focus group discussions, the World Health Organization Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems will be gathered from ministry of health representatives to gain a more complete picture of mental health in the region. Professor Jane von Gaudecker is also a member of the research team.