This federal 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), provides $738,693 to Brandeis University to develop and evaluate an online continuing education program for practicing obstetricians. The program aims to address ableism and improve provider knowledge and clinical practices in delivering perinatal care to disabled patients. Key activities include...
The Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) provides $170,420.00 to New York University School of Medicine to conduct research aimed at optimizing decision-making to improve maternal outcomes in high-risk pregnant patients with hypertensive disorders. The key objectives of the research project are to: 1) use a large dataset to compare maternal health...
This federal Project Grant award of $414,026, provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, will support research to determine the mechanism by which maternal interleukin-10 (IL-10) restricts fetal emergency myelopoiesis, with the goal of improving neonatal outcomes. The research, conducted by Childrens Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, aims to: 1) identify the...
This $831,046 Project Grant award from the National Human Genome Research Institute (CFDA 93.172 - Human Genome Research) aims to generate strategies and resources to facilitate informed decision-making by pregnant patients about prenatal genetic screening and diagnostic tests (PS&D) amidst a rapidly changing landscape of options. The study has three key objectives: 1) Determine how changes in PS&D and post-diagnosis options impact the resources and support needed by patients to make...
This $684,290 Project Grant was awarded by 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 will support a research project led by Weill Medical College of Cornell University to develop risk models for predicting severe maternal morbidity (SMM) using multimodal clinical and social determinants of health (SDOH) data. The project aims to: 1) Characterize a cohort of over 365,000...
This $1,414,384 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) aims to determine the impact of telehealth on severe maternal morbidity (SMM) and SMM disparities, and develop guidelines for implementing telehealth to address equity issues. The University of Pennsylvania is the prime awardee, collaborating with sub-awardees New York University School of Medicine and Children's Hospital...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $193,582 to The Washington University in St. Louis to investigate the impact of the small intestine microbiota of undernourished mothers with environmental enteric dysfunction on vascular remodeling at the fetal-placental interface. The research aims to characterize the effects of the gut microbiota on placental and...
The federal Project Grant award R01HD116812, totaling $686,049.00, was 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). This project aims to examine the impact of changes in state-level abortion restrictions on the incidence of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) in the United States from 2019 to 2023. The primary objectives are to: 1) create a comprehensive dataset using...
This 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), provides $1,526,336.00 to The Washington University in St. Louis to conduct research on improving the dosing and management of oxytocin during labor induction. The key objectives of this 5-year project are to: 1) develop a predictive model for successful labor induction using advanced measures of uterine...
This federal 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), will fund a multi-site randomized clinical trial to evaluate the impact of a clinically-integrated financial coaching intervention on perinatal and postnatal parent mental health, birth outcomes, and child developmental outcomes. The $494,251 award, with a project period from March 2025 to February...