This federal Project Grant award of $131,657 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 investigating disparities in unintended pregnancies among sexual minority women (SMW). The key products and services to be delivered through this award include: Analyzing longitudinal data from the Growing Up Today Study (N=15,044) and Nurses' Health Study 3 (N>51,094)...
The University of Pennsylvania received a $1,783,402.98 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the federal Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The goal of this 5-year award, beginning on September 16, 2024, is to test the efficacy of the "Parents ASSIST" intervention, which aims to improve parent-adolescent sexuality communication and support for sexual minority male adolescents...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $1,287,000 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the University of Colorado-Denver. The grant will fund a 2-year feasibility study to assess the processes and outcomes related to gender-affirming care for transgender and gender diverse youth in the United States. The study aims to (1) establish the acceptability of study instruments and data...
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 $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 federal Project Grant award of $991,613 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program) aims to understand intersectional family relationships and their impact on mental health among Latinx sexual and gender minority (SGM) adolescents and their parents. The award has three key objectives: 1) adapt and validate a measure of parental acceptance for Latinx SGM adolescents, 2) examine how family...
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 $579,715 Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health Trans-NIH Research Support program will fund a longitudinal study at the University of Texas at Austin examining how relationship dynamics influence health outcomes in same-sex and different-sex marriages over time. Specifically, the researchers will follow up with 419 married couples initially surveyed in 2015 to analyze how patterns of risk and resilience within marital relationships,...
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 $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 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 characteristics on SGM couples' family planning, as well as qualitatively describe multilevel factors shaping their decision-making. It will also track changes in these influences over time through longitudinal surveys and interviews. This research is intended to reveal the multi-level needs of LGBTQ couples forming families, informing interventions to address related health disparities. The award period runs from September 2024 through June 2029.