This federal Project Grant award of $187,715 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 on the effects of the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act's expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) on child protective services (CPS) involvement and child well-being. The research aims to evaluate the impact of the unconditional CTC cash transfers on CPS...
This 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 fund a $693,365 research project to evaluate the longer-term impacts of a medical-financial partnership (MFP) intervention delivered through pediatric care. The MFP intervention provides financial coaching to low-income families, with the goal of improving child developmental...
This Project Grant award of $606,824.23, 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), supports research on the effects of the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement during the COVID-19 public health emergency on postpartum coverage and maternal and infant care after childbirth. The award recipient, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, will...
This federal Project Grant award of $510,492 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 research on maternal health outcomes and the impact of state policies expanding public insurance coverage for non-qualified immigrant populations before, during, and after pregnancy. The key objectives of this 5-year project are to: 1) examine differences in...
This 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 fund a multi-site randomized clinical trial to evaluate the impact of a medical-financial partnership (MFP) intervention on perinatal and postnatal parent mental health, birth outcomes, and child developmental risk. The $494,251 award will support a community-partnered study...
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...
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $1,313,046 Project Grant under CFDA 93.865 (Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota. The overarching goal is to identify the impact of social safety net policies, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, on child neglect, physical abuse, and related injuries. Key innovations include using a...
This Project Grant award, provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA Program 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, will support research to estimate the impact of recent state-level reproductive and pregnancy health policy changes, such as the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision, on fertility, maternal health, and infant health outcomes over time and across subgroups in the U.S. The $713,558...
This Project Grant award 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, totaling $211,935, supports research to trace the spillover effects of maternal trauma and racism on children's stress regulation in families of color. The study will examine the daily associations between maternal posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), parenting, and child...
This Project Grant award of $669,250.00, 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), aims to understand the impact of housing policy on neighborhood context and infant and maternal health outcomes in the United States. The project will leverage data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) study, a randomized trial of 16,000 individuals in 4,600...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under CFDA Program 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, will fund a $2,068,239 research project conducted by Tulane University from August 2024 to May 2029. The goal is to empirically test the effects of six state-level economic security policies, including paid family leave, paid medical leave, child care and development fund, earned income tax credits, minimum wage, and temporary assistance for needy families, on maternal mental health outcomes and disparities across the U.S. over the last 20 years. The research will use legal policy surveillance, quasi-experimental methods, and population datasets to provide causal estimates of the independent and combined effects of these economic security policies on a range of maternal mental health indicators. The findings are intended to guide policymakers toward evidence-based interventions to promote population maternal health, particularly for structurally disadvantaged groups.