Nursing and Health Innovation Research

News: ASU Nursing and Health Cracks Top 20 on NIH College Research Funding List for First Time

The range of our faculty research in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation Research Centers is as broad as it is diverse. The ASU College of Nursing and Health Innovation has had more than $27.5 million in awards from the National Institutes of Health, Health Resources and Services Administration, private foundations and community/corporate agencies since 2005, compared to $11 million for the previous five years. Grant awards through Fiscal Year 2010 to date total $9.2 million compared to $2 million for last year at the same time. Active NIH awards total approximately $6.9 million currently. New NIH funding for the past five years totals nearly $11.4 million. Funded Grants

Active nursing research projects range from child obesity among young children to Spanish Translation and Validation of Sleep Measures to mental and behavioral problems among children of Chinese immigrants to removing barriers to exercise and physical activity among older Hispanic women. Many of our initiatives are intended to reduce the higher incidences of health disparities among minority populations in the Southwest, including Arizona.

The successful research focus of ASU nursing and health is an example of the economic benefit a research university can bring to its state. In this case, the benefit has short and long-term consequences. In the short term, Arizona benefits economically from grant funding. In the longer term, Arizonans benefit from research findings that identify preventive and health promotion interventions to improve patient outcomes and help reduce costs.

Each year, Arizona universities pump almost $1 billion into the Arizona economy from their research, most of which is funded by the US government and entities from outside the state. Research money brought in by universities is restricted money that can only be used for the research activity it supports.