Project Grant H4900051

This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the federal Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $736,279 to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to conduct research on reducing racial/ethnic disparities in access to high-level neonatal intensive care and neonatal outcomes. The research aims to determine how specific maternal and infant transfer policies...

The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) awarded a $147,486 Project Grant under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307) to the University of California, Berkeley. The grant supports research to test a community-engaged model of perinatal healthcare services, called Beloved Birth Black Centering (BBBC), and explore its impact on postpartum depression symptoms among Black birthing people. BBBC incorporates evidence-based practices...

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 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307), will provide $3,470,526 to Trustees of Boston University to study how Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) may improve access, quality, and equity of care for low-income pregnant and postpartum Medicaid enrollees. The specific aims are to: 1) characterize and compare quality of care measures for this...

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 Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110) provides $1,500,000 to the Pennsylvania Department of Health (PADOH) to reduce maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity through improved access to care, enhanced data surveillance, and implementation of innovative interventions. The key objectives of this 5-year project are to: 1) improve coordination of maternal health...

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 on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307), is providing $512,244 to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct research aimed at improving the long-term health of Black preterm infants. The key objectives of this 5-year project are to: 1) determine associations between neighborhood-level social drivers of health (SDH)...

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...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health under the Community Programs to Improve Minority Health (CFDA 93.137) program provides $1,169,384 to Illuminate Colorado Inc., a non-profit organization based in Denver, Colorado. The award supports enhanced implementation of the Family Connects model to increase access and utilization of postpartum services for underrepresented populations in Colorado, such as Black, Spanish-speaking, and...