The Center for Engagement in Disability Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (CEDHARS) selected Fedora Biney, Ph.D. and Huacong Wen, Ph.D. as recipients of its spring 2023 pilot grant funding opportunity, “Secondary Data Analysis to Advance Health or Rehabilitation Outcomes Research in People with Disabilities.”

Fedora Biney, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation was selected for her research project “The Impact of Pre-injury Psychiatric Difficulties and Post-injury Emotional Distress on Caregiving Needs in Caregivers of Traumatic Brain Injury Survivors”.

Huacong Wen, Ph.D., Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Postdoctoral Researcher, will receive funding for her research project “The Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on Causes of Death and Mortality rate among People with Spinal Cord Injury”.

Each researcher will each receive $25,000 for one year.

The overarching mission of the UAB Center for Engagement in Disability Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (CEDHARS) is to advance scientific discovery, translational research, education, and engagement in the fields of disability health and rehabilitation sciences. This pilot program aims to support the advancement of disability health research, and this specific funding cycle intended on increasing the field of inclusion sciences, adapting traditional research to be inclusive of people with disabilities.

To read the abstracts for each of the projects, click here.