Training and Research Grants

The College of Health Sciences faculty and administrators compete successfully in obtaining research and training grants to supplement the dwindling funding from the state government. The following grants were received from 2000 to date:

• 2011-2015: Facilitating Occupational Therapists’ Collaboration in Urban School Settings (FOCUS) funded by the U.S. Department of Education to enhance the number of highly qualified occupational therapists prepared to work in urban schools; $ 1.2 million.

• 2010-2014: An NIH RO1 collaborative grant between the HIV/AIDS Research Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Pacific Institute for Research; $1.60 million. 

• 2007-2010: Nursing Enrichment, Chicago Community Trust Foundation, $100,500.

• 2008-2011: Training Occupational Therapists to Practice in Schools (TOPS). US Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, $ 800,000.

• 2007-2010: Transitional Allied Health Partnership. FY 2008 Innovative Grants: State of Illinois Board of Higher Education, $300,000.

• 2008: HIV/AIDS Research and Policy Institute, Illinois State Department of Public Health, $59,240.

• 2007:  African American HIV/AIDS Response Act Incarceration Study Awarded to the HIV/AIDS Research and Policy Institute, Illinois General Assembly, $400,000.

• 2007: Nursing Enrichment. CIGNA Foundation, $5,000.

• 2007: Assessment of the Institute’s capacity to provide HIV/AIDS prevention services and linkages to case management and treatment in African American communities, HIV/AIDS Research and Policy Institute, Illinois Department of Public Health, $50,000.   

• 2006: HIV/AIDS Research and Policy Institute. Illinois Department of Public Health; Supplemental award in support of the incarceration study, $ 60,000.

• 2006: African American HIV/AIDS Response Act Incarceration Study Awarded to the HIV/AIDS Research and Policy Institute, Illinois General Assembly, $480,000.

• 2006: HIV/AIDS Research and Policy Institute, Illinois Department of Public Health,   $180,000.

• 2005-2008: Chicago State University’s Access to Nursing Care through Service Learning, Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration,   $744,717.

• 2005: African American HIV/AIDS Response Act Incarceration Study Awarded to the HIV/AIDS Research and Policy Institute, Illinois General Assembly, $400,000.

• 2005: HIV/AIDS Research and Policy Institute, Illinois Department of Public Health,   $150,000.

• 2004: African American HIV/AIDS Response Act Incarceration Study Awarded to the HIV/AIDS Research and Policy Institute, Illinois General Assembly, $600,000.

• 2004-2007: Diabetes Education Outreach Project. National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Research Network for Health Services and Health Disparities, Subcontract for $32,000.

• 2003-2006: Chicago State University’s Nursing Career Ladder Project. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, $746,312.

• 2003-2006: Project PROGRESS: Chicago State University's Nursing Diversity Porject. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Service Administration. $659,374.