The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $160,400 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to conduct research on the impact of immigration policies on child dietary acculturation and obesity among Mexican American children. The research project aims to analyze how the implementation of local-federal immigration enforcement programs, such as...
This 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), provides $711,791 to Kaiser Foundation Hospitals to conduct a longitudinal cohort study on the epidemiology of type 2 diabetes (T2D) among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander adolescents and young adults. The study aims to describe the incidence and temporal trends of youth-onset...
This federal Project Grant award for $158,500 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support a study to investigate the relationship between parents' adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), their children's obesity risk, and the role of neighborhood environment. The research team at Temple University will create a Neighborhood ACEs Index (NAI) to serve as a proxy for the...
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 $498,065.02 to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct research on the genomic, metabolomic, and behavioral factors influencing early childhood obesity and body composition. The objectives of this 3-year award are to: 1) use untargeted metabolomics to investigate the biochemical mechanisms underlying the...
This federal Project Grant award for $775,442 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will support research under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307). The goal is to analyze the impact of discrimination on obesity and related anthropometric outcomes among children and adolescents using data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study. The research will...
This federal 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), is intended to examine the relationship between household food insecurity, neighborhood food access, and childhood obesity. The $195,781 award to The Children's Hospital Corporation (doing business as Boston Children's Hospital) will fund a 5-year research project with three primary...
This 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), aims to evaluate physical activity and body composition among South Asian American youth and examine the relationships between cultural factors and physical activity behaviors. The $315,062 award will support secondary data analyses of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and the...
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) awarded a $611,203 Project Grant (CFDA 93.847 - Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research) to the University of Houston System to evaluate the role of ethnic microaggressions in obesity-related eating and physical inactivity behaviors among Latinx adults with obesity. The goal is to elucidate the concurrent and temporal impact of ethnic microaggressions on these obesity-related outcomes, as well as...
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 research to elucidate neighborhood and individual factors associated with pregnancy glycemia levels and childhood obesity risk. The $272,700 award to Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, through its Kaiser Foundation Research Institute division, will enable a multiphase research project examining how the...
This federal Project Grant award of $340,175 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 research project at American University to study the effects of federal funding for obesity prevention programs on weight-related health behaviors, obesity prevalence, and incidence of obesity-related chronic conditions. The project aims to leverage variation in...