🎉 February 2026 — Congratulations to Former TIDAL Trainee Dr. Millan AbiNader on Receiving the Catherine Barber Award
We are delighted to congratulate Dr. Millan AbiNader, a former TIDAL trainee, on receiving the prestigious Catherine Barber Award, presented by the American Public Health Association (APHA) in partnership with the Joyce Foundation.
This distinguished honor recognizes Dr. AbiNader’s outstanding contributions to advancing research methodologies for investigating intimate partner violence–related fatalities using national datasets. Her work exemplifies the rigor, innovation, and real-world impact that TIDAL aims to foster, and we are incredibly proud to see her leadership and scholarship recognized at the national level. Congratulations, Dr. AbiNader, on this well-deserved achievement!
🎉 11/24/2025 – TIDAL Research Assistant Snigdha Peddireddy won the 2nd Place Award for the Young Investigator Award at AMIA Annual Symposium. Congratulations!
Ref: Peddireddy, S., Yan, S., Kim, S., & Xiao, R. (in press). Intimate partner homicide among women of childbearing age: Identifying multilevel risk factors with machine learning. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. (Kim, S. shares senior authorship with Xiao, R.)
🗞️ 11/17/2025 – TIDAL Research Assistant Snigdha Peddireddy will present the team's work at AMIA Annual Symposium 2025
Date: 11/17/2025 Time: 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM EDT Session Code: S50
Ref: Peddireddy, S., Yan, S., Kim, S., & Xiao, R. (in press). Intimate partner homicide among women of childbearing age: Identifying multilevel risk factors with machine learning. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. (Kim, S. shares senior authorship with Xiao, R.)
🎊 6/27/2025 – Congratulations to the First Cohort of TIDAL Scholars!
We are proud to announce that the inaugural class of the Project TIDAL (Trauma-Informed Data Science for Abuse Prevention in Lives of Women) Summer Intensive at Emory University has successfully completed their in-person training session.
During this four-day intensive (June 24–27, 2025), participants engaged in hands-on workshops on big-data analytics (R programming), machine learning, trauma-informed mHealth design, and ethical research practices with vulnerable populations.
Best wishes to all of the scholars as they proceed with designing their research ideas and manuscripts, and thank you to the faculty and partners who made this launch possible!
🎉 4/3/2025 – Co-PIs Sangmi Kim and Ran Xiao received Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance Team Science Award of Distinction for Early Stage Research Teams ($2,500)
The Team Science Award of Distinction for Early Stage Research Teams recognizes and promotes excellence in developing multi-disciplinary research teams within the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance (Georgia CTSA). This award will be presented to a developing multi-disciplinary research team that demonstrates great potential for innovative and impactful advances in clinical and translational science.
Ref: https://georgiactsa.org/news-events/news/2025/discovery/conf-highlights/index.html
🗞️ 4/7/2025 – Co-PI Sangmi Kim presented Project TIDAL at 2025 SAVIR Annual Conference
Ref: Kim, S., & Xiao, R. (2025, April 7–9). Project TIDAL: Training future researchers to address intimate partner violence in perinatal period through trauma-informed data science and digital solutions [Roundtable presentation]. 2025 SAVIR Annual Conference, New York, NY, United States.
🗞️ 4/1/2025 – TIDAL Research Assistant Snigdha Peddireddy presented the team's work at Annual Workshop on AI for Maternal and Child Health, Emory University
Ref: Peddireddy, S., Yan, S., Jahangir, T., Xiao, R., & Kim, S. (2025, April 1–2). Leveraging novel data sources for predicting intimate partner violence during the perinatal period: A scoping review [Poster presentation]. Annual Workshop on AI for Maternal and Child Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States.