Cooperative Agreement U58DP005931

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), provides $803,701.38 to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to conduct research on the relationships among mothers' adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), positive childhood experiences (PCEs), maternal sensitivity, and immune regulation in infants and toddlers of mothers with opioid dependence. The...

This Project Grant award of $158,500 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support research to illuminate how a parent's adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and neighborhood environment influence their child's obesity risk. The study, led by Temple University, will create a Neighborhood ACEs Index (NAI) to examine how neighborhood characteristics associated with ACEs...

This $579,715 Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health Trans-NIH Research Support program will fund a longitudinal study at the University of Texas at Austin examining how relationship dynamics influence health outcomes in same-sex and different-sex marriages over time. Specifically, the researchers will follow up with 419 married couples initially surveyed in 2015 to analyze how patterns of risk and resilience within marital relationships,...

This R21 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) provides $234,750 to Emory University to develop and pilot test a culturally-responsive mental health support intervention called "WEYERA" for Ethiopian and Eritrean (Habesha) emerging adults in Atlanta, Georgia. The key objectives are to: 1) develop the WEYERA intervention in collaboration with a Habesha youth advisory...

The University of South Carolina was awarded a $1,266,498 Project Grant by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) to implement the "Linking Exercise for Advancing Daily Stress (LEADS) Management and Resilience in Black Families" intervention. The goal of the LEADS intervention is to promote physical activity and healthy behaviors among overweight African American adolescents and their families by...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $584,259.00 to Emory University to test the efficacy and sustainability of a carepartner-integrated telerehabilitation program for persons with stroke. The primary goals are to: 1) Determine the effects of the "Carepartner and Collaborative Integrated Therapy (CARE-CITE)" program on stroke survivor upper...

This Project Grant award of $149,000 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research (CFDA 93.865) program aims to examine the impact of longitudinal patterns of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on adolescent sexual and reproductive health. The research will utilize innovative analytic methods applied to longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to: 1) uncover patterns of...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $176,255 to the University of Nevada, Reno to conduct research on the social contextual factors contributing to racial inequities in maternal and infant health outcomes. The study aims to uncover how adolescent social developmental contexts shape biological and social stress pathways that impact maternal health and birth...

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), will fund the development and experimental testing of the "Msingi Bora Familia (MBF)" intervention. MBF integrates father-inclusive, gender-equitable, and family-focused curricula into the existing "Msingi Bora (MB)" responsive parenting intervention, which was previously shown to improve...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), supports research on caregiver-child proximity and attachment security. The $198,125 award to Vanderbilt University will enable the recruitment of 100 families with 12-month-old children from diverse backgrounds. The researchers will use a wearable device called "TotTag" to dynamically...