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Past Research Support
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National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control (prime), CDC-RFA-EJ20-2025<\/h4>\n

Project Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Strengthening environmental health capacity (EHC) to detect, prevent, and control environmental health hazards through data-driven, evidence-based approaches<\/p>\n

Year(s):\u00a0<\/b>2021-2023<\/p>\n

DWJL Projects Supported<\/b>: Tennessee Community Water System Estimated Service Area Boundary Digitization Process<\/a><\/p>\n

PI: <\/strong>Dr. Mary-Margaret Fill, Tennessee Department of Health<\/p>\n

Site PI:\u00a0<\/b>Dr. Yolanda J. McDonald<\/a><\/p>\n

Research Assistants:<\/b> Marie Caiola<\/a> (Lead), Austin Fernandez<\/a>, Minoli Fernando<\/a>, Ashley Kim<\/a> (Lead), Aakash Manapat<\/a>, & Meena Muthusubramanian<\/a><\/p>\n

National Environmental Health Association, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (prime), CDC-RFA-EH15-1507<\/h4>\n

Project Title:<\/strong> Private Wells Project<\/p>\n

Years:<\/strong> 2021<\/p>\n

DWJL Projects Supported: <\/strong>Tennessee Private Wells Project<\/a><\/p>\n

PI:<\/strong> Dr. Mary-Margaret Fill, Tennessee Department of Health<\/p>\n

Site PI:\u00a0<\/b>Dr. Yolanda J. McDonald<\/a><\/p>\n

Research Assistants:\u00a0<\/b>Mariah D. Caballero<\/a> (Lead) & Austin Fernandez<\/a><\/p>\n

Vanderbilt Interdisciplinary Discovery Grant<\/h4>\n

Project Title: <\/b>Water, Water Everywhere: What drops are safe to drink?<\/p>\n

Year(s):\u00a0<\/b>2019-2021<\/p>\n

DWJL Projects Supported: <\/strong>Tennessee Community Water System Estimated Service Area Boundary Digitization Process<\/a>, United States Community Water System Estimated Service Area Boundary Geospatial Database<\/a>, Tennessee Public Water Operator Survey<\/a>, and United States Comprehensive Drinking Water Database<\/a><\/p>\n

PIs: <\/b>Dr.\u00a0George M. Hornberger<\/a>, Dr. Yolanda J. McDonald<\/a>, Dr. Doug H. Fisher<\/a>, Dr. Jonathan Gilligan<\/a>, Dr. Brad Hawkins<\/a>, Dr. Patrick Greiner, Dr. Michelle Marcus, & Dr. Janey Camp<\/p>\n

Research Assistants:\u00a0<\/b>Kayla M. Anderson<\/a>, Mariah D. Caballero<\/a>, Marie Caiola<\/a>, Mia Dillon<\/a>, Ke Jack Ding<\/a>, Austin Fernandez<\/a>, Rachel Flores, Ashley Kim<\/a>, Ujjwal Jian<\/a>, Aakash Manapat<\/a>, Juan C. Martinez<\/a>, Rachel McKane, Meena Muthusubramanian<\/a>, Adrienne Parks<\/a>, & Dmitry Semenov<\/a><\/p>\n

Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core Mini-Grant. Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (CTSA) award number UL1TR000445 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences<\/h4>\n

Project Title<\/b>: Behind the Pipes: Tennessee Public Water Systems Operators Insights on the Challenges of Ensuring a Safe Drinking Water Supply.<\/p>\n

Year(s):\u00a0<\/b>2019-2021<\/p>\n

DWJL Projects Supported: <\/strong>Tennessee Public Water Operator Survey<\/a><\/p>\n

PI:<\/strong> Dr. Yolanda J. McDonald<\/a><\/p>\n

Community Partner(s): <\/b>Bob Freudenthal, Tennessee Association of Utility Districts<\/a><\/p>\n

Research Assistants:\u00a0<\/b>Kayla Anderson<\/a> (Lead), Cate Paxton<\/a>, & Mia Dillion<\/a><\/p>\n

CDC Safe Water for Community Health (prime), CDC-RFA-EH15-1507 \u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Project Title<\/b>: Environmental Health Services Support for Public Health Drinking Water Programs to Reduce Drinking Water Exposures<\/p>\n

Year(s)<\/b>: 2018-2020<\/p>\n

DWJL Projects Supported:<\/strong> Tennessee Community Water System Estimated Service Area Boundary Digitization Process<\/a><\/p>\n

PI: <\/strong>Dr. Mary-Margaret Fill, Tennessee Department of Health<\/p>\n

Site PI:\u00a0<\/b>Dr. Yolanda J. McDonald<\/a><\/p>\n

Research Assistants:<\/b> Dmitry Semenov<\/a> (Lead), Ashley Kim<\/a>, Aakash Manapat<\/a>, & Rachel Flores<\/a><\/p>\n

Student Funding<\/h2>\n

Past Funding<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program, Littlejohn Summer Research Scholar<\/h4>\n

Project Title<\/strong>: Association between Fluoride Levels in Tennessee Community Water Drinking Water Systems and Caries<\/p>\n

DWJL Projects Supported: <\/strong>Tennessee Dental Caries Prevention: Fluoride Levels in Community Water Systems<\/a><\/p>\n

Year(s)<\/b>: 2021<\/p>\n

Undergraduate Student Researcher:\u00a0<\/b>Ashley Kim<\/a><\/p>\n

Faculty Advisors:\u00a0<\/b> Dr. Yolanda J.\u00a0McDonald<\/a>, Dr. Ke Jack Ding<\/a>, & Dr. Derek K. Smith<\/p>\n

Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program, Littlejohn Summer Research Scholar<\/h4>\n

Project Title<\/strong>: Forever chemicals in Tennessee? Potential Public health consequences of PFAS<\/p>\n

DWJL Projects Supported: <\/strong>Machine Learning approach to predicting PFAS contamination in Community Water Systems<\/a><\/p>\n

Year(s)<\/b>: 2021<\/p>\n

Undergraduate Student Researcher: <\/b>Aakash Manapat<\/a><\/p>\n

Faculty Advisors:\u00a0<\/b>Dr. Yolanda J.\u00a0McDonald<\/a> & Dr. Ke Jack Ding<\/a><\/p>\n

Vanderbilt University, Peabody College, Russell G. Hamilton Student-Faculty Summer Research Grant<\/h4>\n

Project Title<\/strong>: Tennessee Public Water Operator Survey<\/a><\/p>\n

Year(s)<\/b>: 2019<\/p>\n

Graduate Student Researcher: <\/b>Kayla M. Anderson<\/a><\/p>\n

Faculty Advisors:\u00a0<\/b>Dr. Yolanda J.\u00a0McDonald<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Past Research Support National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control (prime), CDC-RFA-EJ20-2025 Project Title:\u00a0Strengthening environmental health capacity (EHC) to detect, prevent, and control environmental health hazards through data-driven, evidence-based approaches Year(s):\u00a02021-2023 DWJL Projects Supported: Tennessee Community Water System Estimated Service Area Boundary Digitization Process PI: Dr. Mary-Margaret Fill, Tennessee Department of Health Site…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":0,"parent":205,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/dwjlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/dwjlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/dwjlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/dwjlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/dwjlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/dwjlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/dwjlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264\/revisions\/1350"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/dwjlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/dwjlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lab.vanderbilt.edu\/dwjlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}