The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $163,003 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMass Medical). The purpose of this 4-year grant is to provide Dr. Nisha Fahey, an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics, with the research training, mentorship, and protected time necessary to develop a community-informed, optimized,...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to the University of South Carolina in the amount of $214,925.00, with a start date of August 7, 2024 and an ultimate completion date of July 31, 2026. This grant will fund research to investigate "EARLY PREDICTORS OF INFANT-PARENT COORDINATED ATTENTION AND WORD LEARNING IN PRETERM AND FULL-TERM INFANTS". The research aims...
This $178,000 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) supports research to develop an early life phenotyping framework for very preterm infants. The research aims to create 'perinatal phenotypes' by integrating variables such as reason for preterm birth, intrapartum care, and neonatal presentation, and then determine how these phenotypes contribute to...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $641,647.00, was issued 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). The primary awardee, Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc., will conduct a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial in rural Guatemala to assess an integrated intervention aimed at reducing the double burden of maternal-child malnutrition. The project...
This Project Grant award of $595,552 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), is for developing a two-way SMS platform to prevent and treat wasting among HIV-infected and HIV-exposed uninfected children. The project will create a novel intervention that combines a maternally administered malnutrition monitoring system (MAMMS) with infant and young child feeding (IYCF)...
The University of Southern California (USC) received a $830,053 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 award, which runs from April 15, 2025 to April 30, 2030, will fund the development and experimental testing of the "Msingi Bora Familia (MBF)" intervention. MBF is a responsive parenting and family well-being program that integrates...
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 $332,000 to the University of Southern California (USC) to study the long-term impacts of an early childhood development intervention delivered in rural Kenya. The study aims to follow up on a previous 8-month parenting intervention and a complementary 2-year "booster" program delivered by...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $1,033,334 Project Grant under CFDA 93.865 (Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania. The goal of this 5-year project, starting on September 16, 2024, is to improve understanding of stillbirth and neonatal mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa through the collection of new...
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...
This $779,911 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) aims to evaluate the impact of a music-based intervention (MBI) on preterm infant stress, brain development, and long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes. The MBI will be delivered to preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) between 32-40 weeks gestation, with outcomes assessed during the NICU stay and up to 2...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded the University of South Carolina a Project Grant (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) totaling $222,499 to enhance the survival of low birth weight infants in low-resource settings using an implementation science approach. The project aims to test the effectiveness of an intervention grounded in the Information, Motivation, and Behavior (IMB) model, which offers emotional, informational, and motivational peer support to mothers of low birth weight infants and provides a kit with low-cost, locally sourced neonatal care items to facilitate skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding. The project will conduct a hybrid effectiveness-implementation study, first testing the intervention's effectiveness through a randomized controlled trial, and then exploring the implementation process, barriers, and facilitators using mixed methods. Findings from this research will inform the development of effective models for scaling up kangaroo care, an evidence-based intervention to improve the survival and healthy development of low birth weight newborns, especially in low-resource settings.