ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS (PI or co-PI)
2023–2026 – Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), SOR4D programme
Strengthening Mental Health and Human Capital in a Social Programme for Vulnerable Youth in Colombia. PI., CHF 1’000’000. https://wp.unil.ch/youthwellbeing/
2021–2027 – Wellcome Trust (UK)
ALIVE: Improving Adolescent Mental Health by Reducing the Impact of Poverty
Co-PI. US$5’855’606 (PI: Crick Lund and Jordans Marks, KCL). https://www.alive4mentalhealth.org/
2024–2029 – US National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (AD/ADRD). Co-PI. US$1’300’000 at Unisanté (total US$24.7 million). https://gatewayexposome.org/
2023–2027 – UK Medical Research Council (MRC)
Improving Adoption of Mental Health Interventions among Low-Income University Students in Brazil Co-I. US$3’130’397 (PI: Sara Evans-Lacko). https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN41098310
2025–2029 – Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), PNR83
Improving primary care physicians and nurses’ cultural competence on LGBTI health: Effectiveness of the I-CARE e-learning program. Co- PI., CHF 587’412 (PI: Raphaël Bize). https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN93781961
2025–2027 – US National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Expanding the Gateway Infrastructure: Supporting Causal Research on Childhood Education and AD/ADRD Outcomes. Co-PI. US$608’628 at Unisanté (PI: Jinkook Lee, University of Southern California). https://g2aging.org/policy-explorer/overview
2023–2026 – Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), PNR80
COVID-19 Policies and Inequalities in Adult Well-being: Building Back Fairer from the Pandemic in Switzerland Co-I. CHF 410’475 at Unisanté (PI: Joachim Marti). https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/210142
COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS IN THE LAST 5 YEARS
2022–2024 – US National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Expanding the Gateway Research Infrastructure for Exposome Studies in Global Ageing Cohorts Co-PI. US$2’400’000, PI: Jinkook Lee (CHF 548,411 at Unisanté). https://g2aging.org/policy-explorer/overview
2019–2026 – UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Centre for Society and Mental Health
Co-PI. £7’000’000 centre grant (King’s College London, PI: Craig Morgan). https://www.kcl.ac.uk/csmh
2019–2022 – UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
Poverty Reduction, Mental Health and Life Chances of Young People in Six LMICs
Co-PI. £1’200’000 (PI: Sara Evans-Lacko). https://www.lse.ac.uk/cpec/research/projects/chances-6/chances-6
2016–2020 – European Commission Horizon 2020
Mindmap: Promoting Mental Well-being in the Ageing Urban Population
Co-PI and Co-lead. CHF5’740’000 total. https://www.mindmap-cities.eu/
2015–2019 – European Commission Horizon 2020
Life-course Biological Pathways Underlying Social Differences in Healthy Ageing
Co-PI and Work Package Lead. CHF6’000’000 total. https://www.lifepathproject.eu/
2016–2020 – National Institute for Health Research (NIHR, UK)
ASSET: Health System Strengthening in Sub-Saharan Africa
Co-PI. CHF8’800’000 total programme (PI: Martin Prince, KCL) https://healthasset.org
OTHER COMPLETED PROJECTS
2011-2016: European Research Council (ERC) Starting Independent Researcher Grant: Economic Cycles, Employment and Health: Disentangling Causal Pathways in a Cross-National Study (PI) (€1,273,280). https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/research/research-clusters/alpha/projects/healthcycle
2016-2019: European Joint Programme Initiative, ESRC: Impact of interventions and policies on prolonging working life in good health: an international study (Co-PI, total €639,254). https://jp-demographic.eu/projects/worklong/
2012-2018: National Institute on Aging (NIA), RO1 (PI: Lisa Berkman): Social protection, work and family strain: Cumulative disadvantage effects in the US and Europe (Co-PI) (US$ 1.5 million)
2013-2018: ESRC Dementia Initiative: comprehensive approach to modelling outcome and cost impacts of interventions for dementia (Co-investigator, PI: Martin Knapp) (£3,000,000). https://www.lse.ac.uk/cpec/research/projects/modem
2013-2014: McArthur Foundation, Research Network on Ageing: Socioeconomic status, intergenerational support and mental health: Understanding the role of policy in the United States and 17 European countries (PI) (US$ 65,000). https://www.macfound.org/programs/pastwork/research-networks/research-network-on-an-aging-society
2013-2014: LSE research seed grant: Economic shocks, health insurance coverage and mortality in low- and middle-income countries: The case of Latin America (PI) (£17,694)
2012- 2013: LSE research seed grant: Effects of economic downturns on mental health and the role of public policies in mitigating this impact: a preliminary study (PI) (£24,200)
2011-2014: Netherlands Scientific Organization, VIDI grant, January: Economic Cycles and Health (PI) (€800,000)
David Bell Fellowship, Harvard University, September 2008: two-year fellowship at the Harvard Center for Population and Development studies
2007-2010: Netherlands Scientific Organization, VENI award: international comparisons of socioeconomic difference in health across the life-course (PI) (€200,000)
2007-2011: Erasmus University Fellowship: The biological pathways of socioeconomic differences in health across the life-course (PI) (€200,000)
National Institute on Aging (NIA), United States, 2010-2015, 60 months, Co-PI (Funding ID R01AG037398): From Understanding to Reducing Health Disparities: A Model-Based Evaluation (PI: Titus Galama, University of Southern California).
European commission –seventh framework programme grant, 2008-2011: The potential for reduction of health inequalities in Europe: an application of the Global Burden of Disease methodology(co-investigator) (€700,000)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Harvard University, 2007-2008: Socioeconomic disparities in health across borders: A comparison of Europe and the United States (PI) (US$ 10,000)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Harvard Center for Population and Development studies, 2009-2010:Unemployment insurance policies and the effects of life-course income, wealth, and employment status on late life health: disentangling causal effects (PI) (US$ 10,000)
European commission -sixth framework programme grant, 2006-2009: Health promotion through obesity prevention in Europe (co-investigator) (€1 million)