The Pilot and Feasibility Program fosters innovative and transformative research designed to eliminate disparities in diabetes. Pilot projects focus on T3/T4 translational research in diabetes and obesity prevention.
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2019 Pilot & Feasibility Program Awardees
Abigail Barker, PhD
– “The impact of sustained vs. temporary price changes for healthy and unhealthy foods: policy implications for low-income families”
Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft, PhD
– “Developing and piloting a virtual reality experience to address childhood obesity”
Proscovia Nabunya, PhD
– “Food and dietary traditions, acculturation and associated health outcomes of new immigrants and refugees from Eastern Africa living in St. Louis”