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Howard, John (CDC/NIOSH/OD)
CDC All - NIOSH Personnel
NORA FY14 Intramural Funding Opportunity Announcements
Thursday, May 09, 2013 8:58:05 AM

Colleagues:

I am pleased to announce the projects selected for funding under the NORA FY14 Intramural Project Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA).

The selected projects advance the top research priorities of NIOSH and the Sector and Cross-Sector Programs. Total Worker Health™ and Oil and
Gas Extraction, including hydraulic fracturing, were the emphasis area programs. Project Officers submitted twenty proposals for peer review.
Given our existing budget constraints, we are currently able to fund twelve projects.  See the list below.

All Project Officers have received a summary statement from the external peer review of their proposal. The Project Officers and their supervisors
are encouraged to consider this input and implement changes in their projects in response to the comments provided by the external peer
reviewers. I have asked the Communication and Research Translation Office (CRTO), the office that manages r2p, to work with Project Officers
and their managers to assure effective r2p plans are incorporated into each funded project.

Please join me in congratulating the Project Officers listed in the Table below for their outstanding efforts in developing high quality projects.
If you have any questions about this funding announcement, please contact Sid Soderholm, NORA Coordinator, at 202-245-0665 or by email at
[email protected].

JH

DLO

Project Officer(s)

Title

Sponsoring Program

DRDS

Paul Henneberger; Michael Humann

Association of Spirometry with Occupational Exposures in
a Rural Community*

Agriculture, Forestry and
Fishing

DSHEFS

Elizabeth Masterson

Noise Exposure Data for Occupational Hearing Loss
Surveillance

Hearing Loss Prevention

DART

William J. Murphy

Developing Hearing Protector Performance Metrics

Manufacturing

APRO

Michael Breitenstein; Kyla Retzer

Addressing Occupational Safety and Health Hazards in Oil Oil and Gas Extraction
& Gas Drilling & Servicing

HELD

Jeffrey S. Fedan

Fracking: Toxicological effects of silica & diesel exhaust
exposure**

Oil and Gas Extraction

DRDS

Aleksandr B. Stefaniak

Office Equipment Emissions, Exposures, Asthma, and
Controls 

Respiratory Diseases

DSHEFS

Sherry Baron

Using Electronic Health Records and Clinical Decision
Support to Enhance Worker Health

Surveillance

DSHEFS

Alysha Meyers; Steve Wurzelbacher

Effect of a Wellness Grant on Worker Health and Safety

Total Worker Health™

DART

Paula L. Grubb; Rashaun K. Roberts

National Worksite Data and Employer Resources for Achieving
Total Worker Health**

Total Worker Health™

DSHEFS

Cynthia Robinson-Sieber

NOMS III--Capturing Chronic Disease by Occupation and
Industry Combined 2011-2014

Transportation,
Warehousing and Utilities

DSHEFS

Sara E. Luckhaupt

National Health Interview Survey - Occupational Health
Supplement, 2015

Transportation,
Warehousing and Utilities

DSR

Hope M. Tiesman

Evaluation of an Occupational Motor-Vehicle Crash
Prevention Program in Law Enforcement**

Traumatic Injury

* The AFF project will only be funded if the FY14 Budget continues sufficient funding for the AFF Program.
** The Project Officer’s written responses to the review critiques must be approved by the host DLO and a NIOSH OD review group established by the NIOSH Director before
project funding will be released.