This federal Project Grant award of $2,156,700 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 a mixed-methods study to prospectively examine multi-level impacts on family formation plans among sexual and gender minority (SGM) couples. The study aims to quantitatively test the influence of factors like state-level structural stigma and couple...
This $1,055,984 federal 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) will support a longitudinal study examining the reproductive and sexual health trajectories of emerging adult community college students. The awardee, Innovation Research And Training, Inc. (IRT), a woman-owned small business in Durham, North Carolina, will leverage an...
This Project Grant award of $1,485,921.00 was provided 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 award supports a mixed-methods study to understand individuals' knowledge, attitudes, and intent to use state-level policy protections for confidential use of health insurance coverage for sensitive reproductive health services in Massachusetts. The...
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), will fund a $1,311,866 research project to investigate the impact of reduced access to contraception in Texas. The project will: Expand an individual-level longitudinal dataset, Reproduction in People's Lives (RIPL), to track women's fertility and human capital formation across the U.S....
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $2,516,511 to Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc. to elucidate how mental health during late adolescence and early adulthood (ages 18-24) is influenced by four types of LGBT-targeted policies: religious exemptions, gender-affirming healthcare bans, LGBT-restrictive school curricula, and LGBT-supportive school curricula. The project will use a multi-method...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $126,042 to Duke University to conduct a mixed methods study on intersectional discrimination and sexual health among young Black men who have sex with men (YBMSM). The overarching goals are to: Identify latent subgroups of YBMSM with different patterns of intersectional discrimination experiences. Determine the relationship between the...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will provide $686,049 from May 1, 2025 to February 28, 2029 to researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park. The project aims to examine the impact of state-level abortion restrictions on severe maternal morbidity (SMM) in 42 U.S. states. The researchers will create a comprehensive dataset using...
This $244,814 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will fund a mixed-methods research study to investigate the social and behavioral drivers of HIV risk among South African adolescent girls and young women (SA-AGYW). The primary objectives are to: 1) conduct secondary analyses of baseline data from an existing HIV prevention intervention to examine the roles of mental health...
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 $477,502 to The Johns Hopkins University to conduct research aimed at identifying drivers of women's sexual and reproductive health (SRH) empowerment and evaluating its effect on reducing unintended pregnancies. The project leverages existing longitudinal data from the...
This Project Grant award, ID K01HD111612, was provided 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 $287,202 award, with a project period from September 2024 to June 2029, will fund activities to train Dr. Littlejohn, a sociologist, to become an independent investigator studying risk perceptions and tolerance in contraceptive use among couples. Key...