This $160,052 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), awarded under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will fund a study by Dr. Elizabeth Salazar at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute. The study aims to examine how two key hospital factors - financial health and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) strain - influence neonatal morbidity, mortality, and disparities in...
This federal Project Grant award of $251,250 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 support a randomized trial to explore the effects of enriched parent-infant interaction on infant and parent health outcomes. The study will examine the impacts of a smartphone-based music intervention, where parents either receive training to sing interactively with their infants or...
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 a randomized trial to evaluate the effects of in-hospital and post-discharge food support interventions for low-income families with children admitted to the hospital. The $690,147 award, which runs from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2029, will support two key research aims: 1) Determining the...
This federal 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 $736,279 to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to conduct research on reducing disparities in access to high-level neonatal intensive care and improving neonatal outcomes. The key objectives of this 5-year project are to: (1) determine how state-level maternal and infant transfer...
This federal 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 $178,000.00 to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to conduct research on early life phenotyping of very preterm infants. The two-year project aims to create a novel patient selection framework for early life interventions by integrating perinatal variables to categorize infants into...
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), aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the factors influencing child growth and development in preterm infants in Ghana. The $373,358 award to Oakland University, with a period of performance from May 2024 to April 2027, will be used to: Identify child, family, and social factors that mediate and...
This Project Grant award of $494,251 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 a community-partnered, multi-site randomized trial to evaluate the impact of a clinically-integrated medical-financial partnership (MFP) intervention on perinatal and postnatal parent mental health, infant low birthweight, child developmental delay, and related health and economic...
This federal Project Grant award of $174,954 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 support research to examine the relationship between caregiving quality and the development of attention and executive function in children born very preterm. The research aims to: (A) identify child-, caregiver-, and family-related predictors of caregiving quality, and (B) investigate...
This federal 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 investigate the variability in physical therapy (PT) delivered to ambulatory children with cerebral palsy (CP) following orthopedic multi-level surgery (MLS). The $180,635 award to the Childrens Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio will support a pilot study to capture and...
The U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $170,748 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). The objective of this 4-year grant, with an end date of May 31, 2028, is to develop and pilot test a scalable pediatric clinic-based intervention designed to identify and address unmet postpartum contraceptive needs among new mothers....