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Nora Kahn Piore Award

These awards are made annually to support undergraduate, graduate, and medical students who wish to undertake research in health services, with a focus on health status and access to health care by people experiencing poverty and who are medically underserved.

Nora Khan Piore
Nora Kahn Piore

The Nora Kahn Piore Award was established in recognition of the lifetime work of health policy expert, Nora Kahn Piore through the generosity of Margot Piore Onek, MD ’64, P’91 and Joseph N. Onek. These awards are made annually to support undergraduate, graduate, and medical students who wish to undertake research in health services, with a focus on health status and access to health care by people experiencing poverty and who are medically underserved.

The award provides funding of up to $3,000 for research, travel, and related costs.

Prior examples of research expenses include the purchase of access to data, transcription services, travel to a research meeting, open-access publication fees, or research participation fees. Student stipends are not permissible.

Congratulations to our 2024 awardees

  • Mallory Go, undergraduate:
    Vaccination Rates and Adverse Outcomes in Infants with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
  • Hamid Torabzadeh, undergraduate:
    Private Equity and Social Determinants of Health: Geographic Variation in Private Equity Acquisitions of Cardiology Outpatient Practices in the U.S. and Implications for Medically Underserved Americans
  • Carl Porto, Bio-Med/MD:
    Improving stroke awareness and outcomes in a free clinic population
  • Nicole Giron, Ph.D. candidate in Health Services Research:
    Examining Federally Qualified Health Center Utilization in Medicare Advantage
  • Patrick Kelly, Ph.D. candidate in Behavioral & Social Health Sciences:
    A Qualitative Exploration of Fentanyl Adulterated or Associated with Xylazine: Perspectives from People who use Drugs and Healthcare Providers
  • Amelia Bailey, Ph.D. candidate in Behavioral & Social Health Sciences:
    Understanding methadone and buprenorphine use during incarceration and upon release through a socioecological lens
  • Marquisele Mercedes, Ph.D. candidate in Behavioral & Social Health Sciences:
    Accounting for Harm: A Qualitative Investigation into Intersectional Stigma Experienced by Fat Black Patients in the United States
  • Kalli Koukounas, Ph.D. candidate in Health Services Research:
    The Impact of Extended Medicaid Access on Postpartum Health Service Utilization and Continuity
  • Alison Weber, Ph.D. candidate in Behavioral & Social Health Sciences:
    Social policy for equitable postpartum mental health outcomes: Understanding paid leave, social support, and postpartum mental health conditions among women living in the United States

Previous recipients

  • Rachel Gunderson, undergraduate:
    State-level Description of Medicaid Financed Assisted Living by License Type
  • Julia Teck, MPH candidate:
    Lessons in Advanced Virtual Facilitation to Improve Efficacy of ECHO Programs Operating in Western Kenya
  • Alison Kim, undergraduate/MPH candidate:
    Expanding Critically Needed Support for Successful Navigation of the Healthcare System After Release from Prison or Jail in Rhode Island
  • Stella Ng, undergraduate/MPH candidate:
    Designing and Implementing a Social Prescribing Framework to Improve Healthcare Outcomes among Low-Income Households in Hong Kong: A Public Policy Approach
  • Siena Napoleon, Ph.D. candidate in Behavioral & Social Health Sciences:
    Development of Normative Data Feedback Concepts for Substance Use Prevention in Adolescents and Young Adults Within a Primary Care Setting
  • Joyce Sunday, MPH candidate:
    Regional Variations in Nigeria's Healthcare Workforce Availability and its Effects on Maternal Mortality
  • Yulia Yun, Ph.D. candidate in Health Services Research:
    Association Between Discontinuity of Care from Clinicians and Outcomes of Nursing Home Residents
  • John Guigayoma, Ph.D. candidate in Behavioral & Social Health Sciences:
    HIV Self-Test Program Preferences and Willingness to Pay Among Black and Latino Sexual Minority Men in the Southern United States
  • Courtney Johnson, Ph.D. candidate in Health Services Research:
    Impact of Acute Myocardial Infarction on Statin Adherence among Medicaid Beneficiaries in 14 States from 2001 to 2015
  • Haley Adrian, Master's student in Global Health — Acceptability of Long-acting Injectable Pre-exposure Prophylaxis among Underserved and Vulnerable Men in Coastal Kenya
  • Teresa DeAtley, doctoral candidate in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences — Subjective Experiences and Policy Perceptions of Very Low Nicotine Content Cigarettes among Smokers with Affective Disorders
  • Emma Tucher, doctoral candidate in Health Services Research — Understanding Drivers of Health Care and Social Services Partnerships to Address the Social Needs of High-Risk Older Adults
  • Neha Reddy, student in the Warren Alpert Medical School — Experiences of Patients involved with Rhode Island Child Protective Services due to Healthcare Provider Mandatory Reporting Policies
  • Pablo Kokay Valente, doctoral candidate in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences — PrEP Implementation among Transgender Women: Healthcare Providers’ Perspectives
  • Katyayni Seth, doctoral candidate in Anthropology — Caring for Children with Seizures in Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Haley Appaneal, doctoral candidate in Health Services Research —  Inappropriate Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections Across Veterans Affairs Nursing Homes
  • Ashley Gomez, doctoral candidate in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences — Health of Migrant Latina Direct Care Workers
  • Anthony Surace, doctoral candidate in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences — The Role of Minority Stress/Strengths on Alcohol Use among Sexual Minorities: Utilizing Formative Research and Ecologically Momentary Assessment to Inform Intervention Efforts
  • Kathryn Thompson, doctoral candidate in Health Services Research — The Effect of Provider Characteristics on Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence and Racial Disparities among U.S. Medicaid Beneficiaries
  • Eulalia Karina Santamaria, doctoral candidate in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences — Assessing Elements of Decision Making, Acculturation and the Stages of Change for PrEP Uptake: Implications for HIV Prevention Services Tailored to Latinx Men Who Have Sex with Men
  • Rebecca Thorsness, doctoral candidate in Health Services Research — Validation of Reported Race and Ethnicity for Incident End-Stage Kidney Disease Patients
  • Navya Baranwal, undergraduate student in Biology and Public Policy — Racial Disparities in Preemptive Transplantation among Adult ESRD Incident Patients, 2006-2018
  • Rachel Yorlets, doctoral candidate in Epidemiology — Assessing the Impact of Migration on Predictors and Patterns of Health Care Utilization in South Africa: A Qualitative Study
  • Courtney Choy, doctoral candidate in Epidemiology — A Multilevel Model Approach to Understand Childhood Growth and its Association with Body Composition, Obesity, and Cardiometabolic Risk among Samoan Children in the Ola Tuputupua’e “Growing Up” Cohort
  • Kira DiClemente, doctoral candidate in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences — Improving Treatment and Access to Mental Health Care for Central African Refugee Women Living with Trauma: Applications of Implementation Science and Community-Based Systems Dynamics
  • Shekinah Fashaw, doctoral candidate in Health Services Research — The impact of the CMS National Partnership on racial disparities in the use of antipsychotics among nursing homes residents
  • Marga Kempner, MD Candidate — Patterns of Disability, Eviction, and Criminal Legal System Involvement among Individuals Experiencing Homelessness in Rhode Island
  • Alice Larotonda, doctoral candidate in Anthropology — Breastfeeding and Breastmilk Donation: The Global Human Milk Banks' Network
  • Lacey Loomer, doctoral candidate in Health Services Research — The Impact of the Medicare Home Health Rural Add-on payment on Beneficiary Access
  • Ashleigh LoVette, doctoral candidate in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences — A mixed methods approach to understanding resilience and health among young women and girls in the context of sustained HIV risk
  • David Meyers, doctoral candidate in Health Services Research — How well does the Medicare Advantage 5-Star Rating System Capture the Experience of Marginalized Patient Populations?
  • Xinqi Li, doctoral candidate in Health Services Research — The Impact of Involuntary Disenrollment Due to Plan Exits on Coverage Continuity Among Medicaid Enrollees
  • Margot Schwartz, doctoral candidate in Health Services Research — How do I choose? Home Health Agency Star Ratings and Disparities in Agency Selection and Patient Outcomes
  • Arjee Restar, doctoral candidate in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences — Integrating Socio-ecological Model (SEM) and Social Network Theory (SNT) to Increase Access to and Uptake of HIV Treatment and Prevention Services among Sexually Active Gay and Transgender Women who have Sex with Men (GTSM) in Manila, Philippines: A Quantitative Assessment Approach
  • Xuan Zhang, Economics — Expanding Health Insurance to Parents: Effects on Children's Health Care Use and Health
  • Narae Kim, MPH — Disparity of Senior Health Opportunity in Seoul, South Korea: Development and Evaluation of Senior Health Opportunity Index in Seoul
  • Tara Boutan, Biomed — Use of bedaquiline for treatment of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in Worcester, South Africa: a retrospective cohort analysis
  • Courtney Choy, doctoral candidate in Epidemiology — Intensive follow-up assessment of nutritional status among young children in the Ola Tuputupua "Growing Up" cohort study in Samoa
  • Augustine Kang, doctoral candidate in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences — Poor Sleep Quality Among Hispanic Children: Formative Research to Inform the Development of Intervention

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