This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health federal grant program (CFDA 93.113), aims to investigate the impact of historical structural racism on the neighborhood exposome and its influence on modern-day child mental health outcomes. The total award amount is $1,360,608.00, with a project period from July 2024 to April 2025. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Collecting and...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $211,935 Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to the Regents of the University of Michigan on May 2, 2025 to conduct research on the intergenerational transmission of trauma. The study aims to explore associations between maternal experiences of racism, daily maternal posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and parenting, and child hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)...
This federal Project Grant award of $176,255 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) supports a study to assess how social contextual stressors over the maternal pre-pregnancy life course contribute to racial inequities in maternal and infant health outcomes in the United States. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno, aims to uncover how adolescent social developmental...
This $1,901,976 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) supports a community-driven modeling approach to identify policy and community-level interventions that address the impact of structural racism and discrimination on adolescent substance use and mental health. The grant aims to leverage a large, longitudinal study (the CONTEXT study) to develop a theoretical model and...
This federal Project Grant award of $2,010,598 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will support research on the association between persistent intergenerational disadvantage and the burden of diarrheal disease and acute respiratory infection (ARI) in children under five years old. The research aims to estimate the link between disadvantage and childhood illness, examine how illness burden affects...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (CFDA 93.361 - Nursing Research) provides $726,639 to American University to conduct a multi-level, mixed-methods study examining the implications of structural racism in the domains of mass incarceration and housing on racial health inequities. The study aims to: Develop quantitative indices of structural racism related to mass incarceration and housing at the national and state levels in Connecticut, and analyze...
This $468,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) will fund a research project titled "Structural Racism and Youth Firearm Violence: Socioecological Mechanisms and Resilience" at the University of Michigan. The project will examine the relationship between structural racism and youth firearm violence, as well as identify factors that promote resilience in impacted communities. The research will be...
This federal Project Grant award of $438,625 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 support a multi-year study on neighborhood racial change and its impacts on trends in Black-White segregation over several decades. The key products and services to be delivered through this funding include: Developing a comprehensive neighborhood-scale database with consistent boundaries...
This Project Grant award of $235,564 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), supports a research project at Duke University examining the long-term health consequences of childhood maltreatment and foster care experiences. The project aims to: (1) extend the study of health outcomes from early adulthood to mid-life for individuals with histories of child maltreatment and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging's Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) provides $811,579 to Rutgers, The State University to conduct a longitudinal study examining the influence of historical and contemporary structural racism on racial disparities in aging-related disease risk trajectories. The research will leverage the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS) epidemiological dataset, tracking a sample of up to 800...