{"id":365,"date":"2020-07-09T16:56:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/social-health-lab\/?page_id=365"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:44:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:44:47","slug":"research-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/social-health-lab\/research-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Health Lab: Research Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-430 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/social-health-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1515\/2025\/12\/AdobeStock_1559749140-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/social-health-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1515\/2025\/12\/AdobeStock_1559749140-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/social-health-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1515\/2025\/12\/AdobeStock_1559749140-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/social-health-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1515\/2025\/12\/AdobeStock_1559749140-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/social-health-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1515\/2025\/12\/AdobeStock_1559749140-1536x861.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/social-health-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1515\/2025\/12\/AdobeStock_1559749140.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Areas of Research<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Improving health and well-being for young adults with cancer and members of their social support networks (partners, family, friends)\n<ul>\n<li>Social support and communication processes important for well-being<\/li>\n<li>Social network analysis<\/li>\n<li>Inflammation and biomarkers of stress<\/li>\n<li>Interventions for young adult couples coping with cancer<\/li>\n<li>Role of the neighborhood environment and activity spaces (geospatial methods) on health and well-being<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Current Funding<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>NIH\/NCI K01CA297648 (PI: Katie Darabos)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/social-health-lab\/projects\/\">Dyadic and social network influences on health and well-being among young adults with cancer<\/a><br \/>\nProject Period: 08\/07\/2025-07\/31\/2030<\/li>\n<li>New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research (NJCCR) Pilot Grant (PI: Katie Darabos)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/social-health-lab\/projects\/\">Development of a brief social connectedness and communication intervention among young adult couples with cancer: An application of the ORBIT model<\/a><br \/>\nProject Period: 07\/01\/2025-06\/30\/2027<\/li>\n<li>American Institute for Cancer Research, Investigator-Initiated Grant (PI: Katie Darabos)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/social-health-lab\/projects\/\">Real-Time tracking of neighborhood environments and activity spaces on health behaviors, perceived stress, and well-being among young adults with cancer<\/a><br \/>\nProject Period: 01\/01\/2026-01\/01\/2027<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Past Funding<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>New Jersey Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Research Center of Excellence Pilot Grant (PI: Katie Darabos)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/social-health-lab\/projects\/\">Assessment of social network change among adolescents and young adults with cancer: Relationships with health and well-being<\/a><br \/>\nProject Period: 07\/01\/2024-06\/30\/2025<\/li>\n<li>NIH\/NCI F99CA222727 (Hunter College); K00CA22727 (Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia) (PI: Katie Darabos)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/social-health-lab\/projects\/\">A biopsychosocial approach to behavioral oncology in young adults<\/a><br \/>\nProject Period: F99 (09\/14\/2017-05\/31\/2019); K00 (06\/01\/2019-07\/01\/2022)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Areas of Research Improving health and well-being for young adults with cancer and members of their social support networks (partners, family, friends) Social support and communication processes important for well-being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/social-health-lab\/research-program\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":420,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-365","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Social Health Lab: Research Program - Social Health Lab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Social Health Lab at Rutgers University; 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