# Database and Statistical Core

> **NIH NIH P50** · NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE DBA RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC · 2022 · $130,311

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY 
The Database and Statistical Core (DBSC) provides comprehensive data-related services for all 
Conte Center projects and cores, including research design, statistical consultation and 
manuscript review, data system development and implementation, quality assurance, data 
security and backup. Specifically, the intention is that the DBSC will: 1) Provide the highest level 
of statistical consultation to all Center investigators at all stages of each of the six proposed 
research projects; 2) Establish state–of-the-art data management services and ensure close 
coordination of staff responsible for each component database (clinical, psychological autopsy, 
MRI, PET, genetic/epigenetic, and animal); 3) Enforce rigorous protocols to ensure data integrity, 
quality and confidentiality; 4) Prepare well documented data sets for all planned and ad hoc 
analyses, integrating data elements as needed from each of the component databases and 
developing algorithms for the creation of derived variables; 5) Conduct all required data analyses 
and participate in preparation of manuscripts for publication; 6) Develop and implement innovative 
applications of statistical techniques and data processing for suicide research. Notable resources 
available to the DBSC in achieving these goals include a) the staff and facilities of the Columbia 
Mailman School of Public Health (MSPH) Biostatistics Department, where two DBSC members 
have faculty appointments and b) the staff and information technology resources of the New York 
State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI)/Columbia MSPH Data Coordinating Center, headed by Dr. 
Howard Andrews, who is co-PI of the DBSC. Because of the highly sensitive nature of the data 
collected in this project, and increasing concern regarding electronic data breaches, state-of-the- 
art procedures are in place to safeguard Conte Center data from the point of data collection and 
entry, through database storage and backup, to the generation and use of analytic files for report 
generation and statistical analysis. To ensure that future as well as current challenges to data 
security are addressed, the DBSC is in constant communication with the NYSPI PsyIT 
department, and the Columbia University IT Department-Security Division.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10408802
- **Project number:** 5P50MH090964-10
- **Recipient organization:** NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE DBA RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC
- **Principal Investigator:** Hanga Galfalvy
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $130,311
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2013-07-19 → 2026-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10408802

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10408802, Database and Statistical Core (5P50MH090964-10). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10408802. Licensed CC0.

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