Federal Project Grant Award Summary

Florida State University's Sponsored Research Administration Division received a $540,915 project grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), awarded on February 25, 2026, with a completion date of November 30, 2030. This award supports comprehensive research examining multi-level structural factors influencing maternal and infant health outcomes across U.S. states, with particular emphasis on racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes.

The project delivers several key research products and services designed to advance scientific understanding of maternal and infant health inequities. Specific deliverables include: (1) development and public release of the most comprehensive state-level structural context measures to date, intended to accelerate future scientific research; (2) detailed analysis of relationships between state-level structural factors and a wide range of maternal and infant health outcomes while controlling for individual-level covariates; (3) investigation of how established perinatal risk factors mediate connections between structural contexts and health; and (4) examination of whether structural factor associations with maternal and infant health vary by mothers' race and ethnicity. The research leverages 20 years of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Pregnancy Risk and Monitoring Study covering 765,809 births across 45 states to achieve these analytical objectives.