Cooperative Agreement U01DP006093

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), is supporting the implementation and evaluation of a technology-based collaborative care model called RI-SPHERES. The goal is to reduce short- and long-term morbidity associated with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) and improve preventive care attendance among postpartum patients in Rhode Island. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), is providing $128,506 to Rogers Memorial Hospital Inc. to study the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of first-line obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) treatments for perinatal women. The study aims to: 1) determine which interventions are administered to perinatal patients with OCD in a naturalistic setting; 2) evaluate the efficacy, safety, and...

This $400,000 Project Grant award, provided by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110), will support the Delaware Perinatal Quality Collaborative (DPQC) in implementing the Postpartum Discharge Transition (PPDT) patient safety module of the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) across six participating birthing hospitals in Delaware. The key objectives are to: 1) increase postpartum...

This federal Project Grant award of $418,178 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to provide mechanistic insights into the neurobiological mechanisms by which maternal sensitivity is compromised by postpartum depression. Specifically, the University of Massachusetts (UMass), through its Office of Grant & Contract Administration, will use intersectional viral...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a 5-year, $1.3M Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to the University of Illinois to conduct a clinical translational study and experimental animal model research aimed at determining the role of the microbiota-gut-brain axis (MGBA) in perinatal depression (PND). The study will recruit 158 racially diverse pregnant women (55% Black, 30% Latina) to longitudinally assess...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (CFDA 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs) totaling $945,397 provides funding to the Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation, with a sub-award to the University of Pittsburgh, to adapt and evaluate a collaborative care model (CCM) for treating pregnant persons with opioid use disorder (OUD) in low-resource obstetric settings. The key objectives are to: 1) adapt the CCM for rural and low-resource...

The Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded Northwestern University a $4,122,304 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) on September 23, 2022. The grant will fund the implementation and testing of the Supporting Transitions to Primary Care Among Under-Resourced, Postpartum Women strategy through August 31, 2025. Commonly known as STEP-UP,...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $1,440,659 to Duke University to develop a novel pregnancy-specific dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills intervention to target emotion dysregulation and improve maternal and infant health outcomes. The research aims to test whether the DBT-P intervention can increase maternal emotion regulation skills or physiological regulation, and in turn...

This $258,301 Project Grant award was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to develop and validate a new measure of patient-centered peripartum contraceptive care. The objective is to create the "Patient-Centeredness of Peripartum Birth Control Counseling (PPBC)" measure, which will assess the patient experience of contraceptive care during pregnancy and...

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,...