Project Grant 4H000651B000000

The U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $736,922 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). The funding will support a 5-year effectiveness-implementation trial of the "I-CAN" intervention, which aims to train and deploy experienced contraception users as peer mentors to provide informational, instrumental,...

This $110,901 federal Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will support a research project titled "Non-Preferred Contraceptive Method Use in Low-Resourced Settings: Exploring Inappropriate Medical Contraindications and Person-Centered Care." The project aims to 1) estimate the impact of two social accountability interventions on non-preferred...

This Project Grant award of $118,320 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 assess the impact of a postpartum intrauterine device (IUD) intervention on contraceptive decision-making in Tanzania and Nepal. The key objectives are to: (1) determine if the postpartum IUD intervention led to perceived pressure to adopt contraception that influenced...

This Cooperative Agreement award in the amount of $910,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Adolescent Health is part of the Teenage Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program (CFDA 93.297). The purpose of the award is to support the replication of effective teen pregnancy prevention program models that have been shown to be effective through rigorous evaluation. The awardee, Child Trends, Inc., a nonprofit research organization, will implement medically accurate,...

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), aims to identify risk profiles for short birth intervals among postpartum women in Ethiopia and the individual, interpersonal, and health system factors that predict those risk trajectories. The $318,750 award will support a 24-month study using longitudinal survey data from approximately...

This Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program will fund the development and evaluation of an online contraception decision aid, titled "ContraceptionForAll", for transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) individuals assigned female at birth (AFAB). The $391,458 award will be used to: (1) engage TGNC AFAB individuals in participatory design to enhance an existing...

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 $985,308 to the University of Washington to advance the delivery of primary STI and HIV prevention services for cisgender adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) through pharmacy-based interventions. The project aims to investigate strategies to increase STI testing, expedited...

This federal Project Grant award of $499,140.00 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will fund the "TSEPAMO NEXT GENERATION: OPTIMIZING HIV TREATMENT AND PREVENTION STRATEGIES FOR PREGNANT WOMEN IN BOTSWANA" research project at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The key objectives of this 5-year project are to: 1) investigate the safety and efficacy...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the HIV-Related Training and Technical Assistance program (CFDA 93.145) to Heart To Hand Inc., a non-profit organization in Largo, Maryland. This grant aims to strengthen organizational infrastructure and increase capacity to provide high-quality HIV care services to Black persons living with HIV in Prince George's County. Key products and services...

This $723,900 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Nursing Research (CFDA 93.361 Nursing Research) supports the evaluation of an integrated group postpartum and well-child care model to improve maternal and child health outcomes in low-resource settings. The Johns Hopkins University, the grant recipient, collaboratively adapted an evidence-based group healthcare model and co-designed an integrated program that extends postnatal care to 12 months while integrating it with well-child...