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 $1,371,278 to Northwestern University over approximately 5 years from March 2025 to November 2029. The grant supports research to investigate patient, partner, and provider determinants of postpartum contraception and inter-pregnancy intervals. The goal is to address the issue of...
This federal Project Grant award of $697,269 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA Program 93.865 (Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will fund the "Partnering with Antenatal Navigators to Transform Health in Pregnancy (PATH)" study. The study aims to test the efficacy of an innovative antenatal care patient navigation model to extend and expand care for 550 low-income, racially and ethnically diverse, nulliparous...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) totaling $692,141 will fund research to address employment-related barriers to prenatal care for minoritized pregnant patients. The primary awardee, Duke University, will develop and pilot test the PROMOTE (Provider Remote Obstetric-related Employment Education) intervention to educate obstetric clinicians on federal employment...
This $360,000 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) will enable Northwestern University to adapt and pilot test the EMPOWER strategy. EMPOWER is a technology-enabled, primary care-based health literacy intervention to empower cisgender women with increased vulnerability to HIV to make informed decisions about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The project aims to: 1) adapt the EMPOWER...
This $1,163,796 Project Grant, awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will support a 4-year study entitled "Adaptations and Impacts Understanding Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs" (AIM-UP). The study aims to advance understanding of how evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs can be effectively adapted and replicated, with a focus on four key areas:...
This Project Grant award of $512,244, provided 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 develop and pilot test a pediatric clinic-based intervention to address unmet postpartum contraceptive needs. The project's objectives are to: 1) qualitatively assess intervention preferences among women and healthcare providers, 2) develop the pediatric clinic-based postpartum...
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...
The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a $1,078,000 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). The grant, awarded on August 22, 2024, will fund a research project titled "Informing Optimal Investments along the Preconception to Postpartum EMTCT Continuum." The project aims to evaluate the population-level effectiveness and...
This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services' Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) (CFDA 93.384), aims to create scalable solutions to unlock and integrate previously underutilized nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech and language pathology data with routinely collected medical data. The $9,846,428 project, with a performance period from September 2024 to September 2026, will target two common interprofessional...
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 $2,114,125.00 from September 15, 2024 to June 30, 2029 to determine the impact of telehealth on severe maternal morbidity (SMM) and SMM disparities, and develop guidelines for implementing telehealth to address equity issues and reduce SMM disparities. The key products and services to...
The Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health National Institute of Child Health and Human Development awarded Northwestern University a $4,122,304 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) on September 23, 2022.
The grant will fund the implementation and testing of the Supporting Transitions to Primary Care Among Under-Resourced, Postpartum Women strategy through August 31, 2025. Commonly known as STEP-UP, the strategy leverages technology and a stepped-care approach to improve continuity of care as high-risk postpartum patients transition from obstetric to primary care within under-resourced community health centers. Specifically, the grant will test STEP-UP compared to usual care across four outcomes measures at four safety-net health centers in Chicago, Illinois serving approximately 788 patients over three years. Relevant sub-awards will support implementation of specific STEP-UP components at AllianceChicago and Cook County Health.