Family Well-being Research: First FAMNET Grantee Retreat

The Family Well-being Research Network (FAMNET), a collaborative project with CHDS faculty Eve Wittenberg as a principal investigator, held the first bi-annual grantee retreat via Zoom. The network is a joint effort among investigators at the Harvard Chan School, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pittsburgh. Funded by multiple institutes within NIH, and part of a larger network of 6 networks across the US, FAMNET’s goal is to advance the science of family well-being measurement across the lifespan, including a focus on pediatric quality of life. The retreat included grantee recipients of FAMNET’s Research Scholar Corps and Pilot Projects, the three PIs, Lisa Prosser, Janel Hanmer, and Wittenberg, co-investigators, and grantee mentors. Grantees presented their research progress and networked among themselves and with the faculty and investigators.

Eight individuals have received awards to date:

Gina Clarkson, PhD, APRN, NNP-BC, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, College of Health, Idaho State University
Marie E. Heffernan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Associate Director, Voices of Child Health in Chicago, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Yuchen Liu, master’s student, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Lindsay May, MD, FRCPC, Associate Professor, Pediatrics, University of Utah
Anne Schuster, PhD, Research Scientist, Department of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, Ohio State University
Elizabeth Sloss, PhD, MBA, RN, CNL, Postdoctoral Fellow, College of Nursing, University of Utah
Hadley Stevens Smith, PhD, MPSA, Assistant Professor, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute
Justin A. Yu, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Division of Palliative and Supportive Care and Pediatric Hospital Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

A call for applications for the next round of funding will be announced soon. Sign up for FAMNET’s email list to receive network announcements.

Learn more: Read about FAMNET’s work on measuring family well-being
Learn more: Read more about NIH networks to advance emotional well-being research