Cooperative Agreement 1D1CMS331140

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $632,775 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to the University of Georgia Research Foundation. The grant aims to develop and pilot test the EMPOWER (Enhancing and Motivating PrEP Options among Women through Empowerment and Resilience) telehealth intervention to optimize pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake and persistence among African American women in the southern United States. The project...

This Project Grant award, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, supports a comprehensive $398,972 study on improving healthcare quality and equity for newborns with prenatal substance exposure. The study, conducted by the University of California, Davis in collaboration with the Better Outcomes through Research for Newborns (BORN) network and the EMPOWER stakeholder group, aims to:...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $680,644 to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to evaluate the "Healthy Families-PREP" intervention. This intervention aims to promote the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among periconception, pregnant, and postpartum women in rural Uganda to reduce HIV incidence. The 5-year project will first adapt the 3-session...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the CFDA 93.226 Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes program is funding the development and testing of a clinical decision support (CDS) tool to improve iron deficiency screening and management for pregnant individuals at high risk of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). Specifically, the $118,089 award will support a two-phase project at Massachusetts...

This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $249,000.00 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania, to enhance personalized insights into common obstetric disorders using longitudinal deep-phenotyping data. The project aims to compile a...

This $499,140 Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will fund the "TSEPAMO NEXT GENERATION: OPTIMIZING HIV TREATMENT AND PREVENTION STRATEGIES FOR PREGNANT WOMEN IN BOTSWANA" research study. The study has two key aims: 1) to assess the safety and efficacy of two-drug antiretroviral therapy (ART) with...

This $550,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development and validation of a non-invasive, multiplex blood test for the early detection of preeclampsia, a serious pregnancy complication. The project aims to advance the detection of vascular dysfunction, particularly preeclampsia, by optimizing a blood test that targets disease-inducing signaling proteins on the surface of...

This federal Project Grant award of $182,249, provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), supports the implementation and evaluation of a digitally enhanced intervention called EMPWR (Empowering Pregnant Women Receiving Medications for Opioid Use Disorder). The primary objectives of this grant are to: (1) Evaluate the feasibility of implementing the EMPWR intervention, which is designed to improve retention of pregnant...

The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded a $399,111 Project Grant under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). The grant aims to increase postpartum primary care engagement, quality, and experience by strengthening coordination between obstetric and primary care providers. The intervention includes default primary care visit scheduling,...

The Maternal and Child Health Research Consortium was awarded a $560,061 Project Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110). The grant will fund a series of collaborative research studies, known as Project PITCH (Perinatal Incentivized Treatment and Care for Hypertension), to improve outcomes for women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP). The key products and services to be...