This $1,324,642 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 (Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will fund a 1-year exploratory sequential mixed methods study on the impact of the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision on pregnancy loss care. The study has three key aims: 1) characterize clinician attitudes, knowledge, and decision-making related to pregnancy loss care in states with new abortion...
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 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), provides $449,886 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to leverage medical records data to understand the underreporting of abortion before and after the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson's Women's Health Organization decision. The key objectives are to: (1)...
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....
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a Project Grant in the amount of $156,000.00 to the University of Maryland, College Park on September 19, 2023 under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The primary objectives of this award are to: Develop and test an "abortion list experiment" indirect questioning method to overcome underreporting of abortion in survey data. This will enable more accurate...
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 will provide $154,706 in funding to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco to conduct research on the effects of state-level initiatives to reduce early-term elective deliveries (EEDs) on maternal and newborn outcomes. The key objectives are to investigate and compare the effects of...
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 two-phase, $873,810 study on barriers to pregnancy care in the Midwest following recent policy changes restricting abortion access. In the first 6-month R61 phase, the research team will recruit 500 pregnant individuals seeking abortion information online to identify and...
This Project Grant award of $276,622 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will create a new comprehensive longitudinal dataset to identify spatial variation in access to contraceptive, maternity, and abortion care at the U.S. county-level from 2009-2021. This "Reproductive Healthcare Deserts" dataset will be used to document changes in access over time, identify disparities, and...
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 Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will provide $1,616,157 to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco to conduct a longitudinal observational study examining the health and economic consequences faced by individuals who sought abortions before and after the implementation of state-level abortion bans following the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The study aims to document pregnancy outcomes and the immediate and long-term effects of this policy change, assess the effectiveness of abortion access helplines, and conduct in-depth interviews to deepen the understanding of vulnerable populations' experiences. The award period runs from September 2024 through May 2029.