This Project Grant award of $606,824.23, 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), supports research on the effects of the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement during the COVID-19 public health emergency on postpartum coverage and maternal and infant care after childbirth. The award recipient, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, will...
This $156,000 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 research project at the University of Colorado-Denver to study the long-term effects of Mexico's universal public health insurance program, Seguro Popular, on child health and household outcomes. The project will leverage the longitudinal, nationally representative Mexican Family Life Survey to identify the causal...
This federal Project Grant award of $325,000 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 supports research investigating the effects of government-led cash transfer programs on health outcomes among women and young children in low- and middle-income countries. The research team at the University of Pennsylvania will use longitudinal mortality data from 37 countries to...
This Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the federal Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $170,296 to Teachers College, Columbia University to conduct a longitudinal study examining the relationships among maternal stress, epigenetic aging, and cognitive/behavioral development in early childhood. The 2-year project aims to: 1) Investigate stress-related...
This federal Project Grant award of $510,492 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 research on maternal health outcomes and the impact of state policies expanding public insurance coverage for non-qualified immigrant populations before, during, and after pregnancy. The key objectives of this 5-year project are to: 1) examine differences in...
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 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $160,400 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) to study the impact of U.S. immigration policies on dietary acculturation and childhood obesity among children of Mexican immigrants. The 2-year project (8/9/2024 - 7/31/2026) will analyze nationally-representative data linked to state and local immigration policy data to...
This federal Project Grant award of $187,715 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 research on the effects of the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act's expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) on child protective services (CPS) involvement and child well-being. The research aims to evaluate the impact of the unconditional CTC cash transfers on CPS...
The federal Project Grant award R21HD116227, totaling $263,134.00, was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The funding supports a research project led by the University of Southern California to investigate the impact of COVID-19-related child care center closures on the developmental outcomes of infants and toddlers in low-income families receiving home visitation...
The Regents of the University of Michigan was awarded a $2,010,598 Project Grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to investigate the association between persistent intergenerational disadvantage and disparities in diarrheal disease, acute respiratory infection, and healthcare utilization among children under five. The research project aims to: 1) estimate the link between persistent...