Project Grant R01HD119447
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health, awarded $440,000 to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston on August 15, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The award funds research to evaluate mechanistic pathways through which heat exposure during pregnancy triggers preterm birth, addressing a knowledge gap in understanding...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded Boston University (Trustees of Boston University, doing business as Boston University Medical Campus) $702,577 on September 1, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to conduct a longitudinal study examining heat exposure, placental health, and adverse pregnancy outcomes. The research leverages an existing cohort of 610 pregnant women who attended prenatal visits at...
- The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences awarded $758,827 to the University of California, Merced on July 10, 2026, under the Environmental Health program (CFDA 93.113) for research on wildfire smoke exposure, health effects, and mitigation solutions. The project studies the effects of wildfire particulate matter (PM2.5) on pregnant people and newborns in California, with particular focus on how maternal exposure to wildfire smoke affects adverse pregnancy and infant outcomes. The...
- The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences awarded Emory University $1.602 million on September 25, 2025, under the Environmental Health program (CFDA 93.113) to conduct a transdisciplinary study evaluating the effects of wildfire smoke on female fertility through population-level, clinical, and experimental approaches. The research employs three integrated aims: Aim 1 analyzes population-level data from the National Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance System, comprising...
- The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, awarded $465,667 to the University of California, Los Angeles on July 1, 2026, under the Environmental Health grant program (CFDA 93.113). The award funds epidemiological research examining how pregnant women and those at conception exposed to the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires (Pacific Palisades and Altadena fires) adopted and responded to risk mitigation strategies. The research...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded The General Hospital Corporation (Massachusetts General Hospital) $443,954 on June 1, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to conduct a four-year mixed-methods assessment of obstetric readiness in low-resource emergency departments. The research addresses the clinical gap created by closures of labor and delivery units that leave 2.3 million women of childbearing age in...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, awarded The Johns Hopkins University $1,176,983 on September 12, 2025, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to conduct a cluster randomized trial examining the relationship between periodontal disease and outcomes in small vulnerable newborns. The award addresses neonatal mortality among preterm and small-for-gestational-age infants,...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health, awarded $456,500 to The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center on June 1, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The award funds molecular characterization of human pregnancy-induced cervical epithelium through two research aims. First, the recipient will apply single-cell and spatial...
- The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded $990,342 to the Regents of the University of Michigan on August 13, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to conduct research on intergenerational programming of neurodevelopmental disorders. The research constructs a multigenerational cohort of more than 1.4 million grandmaternal-parental-offspring triads using linked nationwide Swedish registries to examine associations...
- The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences awarded Geisinger Clinic $3.379 million on September 25, 2025, under the Environmental Health program (CFDA 93.113) to characterize the relationship between extreme heat exposure and cardiovascular and pulmonary outcomes and identify health system intervention strategies in the context of climate change. The research will systematically assess how heat intensity, latency, and duration prompt or exacerbate acute events in asthma and...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded University of Maryland, College Park $515,009 on August 24, 2026, under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to quantify the individual and combined effects of extreme heat and wildfire smoke exposure on hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and gestational diabetes mellitus. The research leverages a healthcare claims dataset encompassing approximately 6.5 million births during the study period to evaluate preconception and prenatal exposures to extreme heat and wildfire smoke, determine how combined exposures vary across the United States, and explore potential modifications of these relationships by measures of social vulnerability. The study employs a novel wildfire smoke dataset including concentrations of total mass wildfire smoke-related PM2.5 (particulate matter 2.5 microns), individual PM2.5 constituents (sulfate, nitrate, elemental carbon, and organic carbon), and smoke-specific ozone. The analytical approach involves time-to-event epidemiological models, spatial clustering, Cox regression modeling within a distributed lag nonlinear framework, K-means spatial clustering, and machine learning kernel methods to estimate risk and quantify spatial heterogeneity. The period of performance runs through March 31, 2031, with place of performance at Roxbury, Massachusetts. The award is a Project Grant, which provides direct funding to the recipient to conduct specified research activities aimed at enhancing reproductive health and human development, with particular attention to addressing disproportionate impacts on marginalized communities.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $515.0k | 8/25/26 |