Center Awards Seed Grants to Projects In Human Rights, Gender and Migration

The Center for Human Rights, Gender and Migration announces seed grant funding for three projects led by WashU faculty and students working at the intersection of human rights, gender and migration. Each academic year, the center provides one to four seed, or urgent gap-filling grants. 2024 recipients will present their projects in fall, 2025.

The three projects awarded this year include:

Sibling-Support for Adolescent Girls: A whole-family, gender transformative approach to preventing mental illness among forcibly displaced adolescent girls
Primary Investigator: Ilana Seff, DrPH
Co-investigators: Lindsay Stark, DrPH; Byron Powell, PhD, LCSW; Arturo Harker Roa, PhD
Summary: In partnership with the Women’s Refugee Commission and Mercy Corps, and supported by an NIH grant, this project involves implementation science research around a sibling-centered intervention for families in humanitarian settings.