# Core B: Data and Research Methods

> **NIH NIH P20** · RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL · 2021 · $427,336

## Abstract

Project Summary 
Despite their public health significance, interventions focusing on opioid use disorder and overdose prevention 
often suffer from a lack of rigorous design and evaluation. The Data and Research Methods (DRM) Core will 
support COBRE Project Leaders and pilot investigators in overcoming the methodological, analytical, and 
translational challenges that have traditionally stymied research project success and public health impact. By 
providing quantitative expertise, research infrastructure, and technological resources, the DRM Core will 
strengthen the quality of the work produced by COBRE Project Leaders, and enhance their data 
use/management capacity. DRM Core services will include: 1) methodological consultation on study design 
issues such as sampling, matching, survey development, and data harmonization; 2) statistical support, such 
as the use of statistical models, model-building procedures, model specification, and methods to handle 
missing data; 3) “dashboarding” and other visualization services to generate user-friendly, interactive data 
outputs for dissemination and translation of information; 4) providing a HIPAA-compliant data management 
system which will provide multi-tier access, back-ups, and de-identification; 5) providing access and linkage to 
existing and new statewide overdose-related databases, as well as record matching services to enrich 
outcomes across projects; and 6) providing training on and facilitating the exchange of methodological, 
computational, and analytic ideas related to the study of overdose and opioid-related harms. 
DRM Core Director Dr. Brandon Marshall is an established CDC- and NIH-funded investigator with extensive 
experience in cohort study design, survey development, and the use of advanced quantitative methods, 
including simulation approaches, to evaluate non-randomized public health interventions. His leadership will be 
supplemented by highly trained staff with expertise in epidemiological methods, project management, database 
development, programming, data visualization, and biostatistics.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10256005
- **Project number:** 5P20GM125507-04
- **Recipient organization:** RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL
- **Principal Investigator:** Brandon David Lewis Marshall
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $427,336
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-01 → 2023-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10256005

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10256005, Core B: Data and Research Methods (5P20GM125507-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10256005. Licensed CC0.

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