Project Grant 59500070044

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $602,400 to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) funds research to test two low-cost interventions aimed at reducing dropout rates among low-income female university students due to unplanned pregnancies. The first experiment will assess the impact of combining financial incentives with targeted information to change beliefs about the perceived link between...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA Program 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, provides funding of $690,147 to the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio to conduct a randomized trial evaluating the impact of in-hospital and post-discharge food support interventions for low-income families with hospitalized children. The study aims to determine the effect of providing...

This federal Project Grant award of $325,000 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research supports research investigating the effects of government-led cash transfer programs on health outcomes among women and young children in low- and middle-income countries. The research team at the University of Pennsylvania will use longitudinal mortality data from 37 countries to...

This Project Grant award of $500,000 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 research by Brown University to examine the effects of early-life exposure to social safety net programs on children's health and development. Specifically, the research will: Assess the causal impacts of early-life safety net investments on health and...

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $385,000 Project Grant to Good Nutrition Ideas LLC, a woman-owned small business in Eugene, Oregon, to develop HOMEALS, a science-based clinical decision support system (CDSS) for nutrition in group homes serving adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). This CDSS web app will draw on nutrition knowledge bases to provide tailored, evidence-based nutrition recommendations to group home managers,...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Federal Grant Program 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, will support research to study the effects of armed conflict and climate shocks on the nutritional status of women and children in sub-Saharan Africa. The $160,300.00 award to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) will fund a cross-national analysis linking nutritional data on 725,619 women and...

This $310,000 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), will support a feasibility study for an adaptive intervention to improve food security and maternal-child health. The study aims to determine the feasibility of recruitment and retention, as well as the potential effectiveness of interventions, including WIC referrals, care navigation,...

This federal Project Grant award, totaling $641,647.00, was issued by 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). The primary awardee, Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc., will conduct a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial in rural Guatemala to assess an integrated intervention aimed at reducing the double burden of maternal-child malnutrition. The project...

This $750,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) will fund research at the University of California, Los Angeles to address college food insecurity and promote healthy eating among vulnerable student populations. Over the one-year period from December 2022 through November 2023, the grantee and sub-awardee Chico State Enterprises will develop a framework for understanding barriers to and motivators for food...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $160,000 supports a two-year postdoctoral fellowship focused on measuring the impacts of community seed banks on nutrition, food security, and food sovereignty in underserved regions of the United States. The research objective is to identify existing agrobiodiversity conservation initiatives, such as community seed banks, in high-poverty and food-insecure regions, and trace...