Current Grant Funding
Financial Motivations to Quit Smoking and Prevent Related Economic Costs
FUNDING SOURCE: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
GRANT NUMBER:1R21DA032905
TOTAL FUNDING:$413,750
CURRENT YEAR DIRECT COSTS:$125,000
ROLE: Principal Investigator (PI)
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI):Jody L. Sindelar
PROJECT DATES:September 15, 2011 – August 31, 2013
MAJOR GOALS: Prevention of future tobacco-related morbidity, mortality and medical care expenses in all smokers, and especially low-income smokers through development of new intervention potentials.
Incentives to Quit Smoking in CT Medicaid: Role of Medical Homes
FUNDING SOURCE: State of Connecticut (U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid pass-through)
GRANT NUMBER: Pending
TOTAL FUNDING:$657,491 (Yale only)
CURRENT YEAR DIRECT COSTS:$122,922 (Yale only)
ROLE:Principal Investigator (PI)
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI):Jody L. Sindelar
PROJECT DATES:September 12, 2011 – September 11, 2016
MAJOR GOALS: Comprehensive pre-implementation efforts and evidence based treatments to enhance the effectiveness of Connecticut’s approach to smoking cessation.
Yale Training Program in Addiction, Economics and Policy
FUNDING SOURCE: National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
GRANT NUMBER:1 T32 DA031104
TOTAL FUNDING:$834,205
CURRENT YEAR DIRECT COSTS:$170,400
ROLE:Principal Investigator/Project Director
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI):Jody L. Sindelar
PROJECT DATES:July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2016
MAJOR GOALS:Training and development of active and independent investigators whose future research will advance the field of addiction policy and health services research.
Types of stressors and their impact on health related addictions: smoking, drinking and BMI
FUNDING SOURCE: National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
GRANT NUMBER:RL1 AA017542
TOTAL FUNDING:$1,211,112
CURRENT YEAR DIRECT COSTS:$157,950
ROLE:Principal Investigator
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI):Jody L. Sindelar
PROJECT DATES:September 30, 2007 – June 30, 2013
MAJOR GOALS:Examining the impacts of stress on the interplay among multiple addictions in adults. Part of a larger NIH 'Roadmap' Consortium grant (PI - Rajita Sinha).
Aging Research at the 2010 through 2014 ASHEcon Biennial Conferences
FUNDING SOURCE:National Institute on Aging (NIA)
GRANT NUMBER:1R13AG038089
TOTAL FUNDING:$125,000
ROLE:Principal Investigator/Project Director
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI):Jody L. Sindelar
PROJECT DATES:June 1, 2010 – May 31, 2015
MAJOR GOALS:2010 through 2014 Biennial Conferences of the American Society of Health Economists (ASHE) to provide a forum for emerging ideas and empirical results of health economics research, and in particular, aging related issues.
National Implementation of Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Plan CAHPS Survey
FUNDING SOURCE:Rand Corporation via Harvard School of Public Heath
GRANT NUMBER:9920120015
ROLE:Investigator
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI):Paul Cleary
PROJECT DATES:Juy 1, 2012 – June 30, 2013
MAJOR GOALS:Development of data collection guidelines, training materials and procedures, data submission guidelines, a data submission tool, and other materials and procedures necessary to support CMS's national implementation of the Medicare Advantage and the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan CAHPS Survey. This is an award to Harvard from the Rand Corporation with a subaward to Yale.
Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems
FUNDING SOURCE: Agecy for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)
GRANT NUMBER:5U18HS016978
ROLE:Investigator
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI):Paul Cleary
PROJECT DATES:April 1, 2011 – September 29, 2017
MAJOR GOALS:Program of research, development, and evaluation with respect to the design, collection, and use of consumers' assessments of health care for informing health care choices and quality improvement.

