This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will fund a $177,833 research study at Wayne State University to investigate the intergenerational impact of maternal childhood trauma on children's fear neurobiology and internalizing psychopathology risk. The 1-year study will enroll 120 Black American mother-child dyads to assess the relationship between maternal trauma history, PTSD symptoms, children's...
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 $225,306 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct a secondary data analysis study. The study aims to explore the underlying mechanisms by which maternal childhood maltreatment may be related to psychopathology among their adolescent offspring. The research leverages a longitudinal...
This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $176,255, 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 supports research 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 key objectives of the 2-year project are to: 1)...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $127,722, 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). The award supports a research project at Teachers College, Columbia University examining the longitudinal associations among maternal stress, epigenetic aging, and the cognitive and behavioral development of children during the first few years of life. Specifically, the...
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 $2,010,598 to the Regents of the University of Michigan to study the association between persistent intergenerational disadvantage and the burden of diarrheal disease and acute respiratory infection (ARI) among children under five years old. The research aims to: 1) estimate the relationship between persistent...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), awarded a $204,788 Project Grant (R21HD112694) to New York University (NYU) to adapt and collect preliminary data on the acceptability, feasibility, and evidence for the effect of a trauma-informed parenting intervention called Parenting-STAIR. This intervention aims to address trauma symptoms and parenting among military-connected...
The federal Project Grant award R01HD113752 for $1,892,487.00 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). The award supports a short-term longitudinal experimental investigation comparing the effects of acute stress on memory between maltreated and non-maltreated 12-17-year-olds. The research aims to provide critical insights into how child maltreatment shapes...
This $412,909 Project Grant award, effective September 1, 2024 through May 31, 2028, is funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The award supports a mixed-methods research project led by the University of Texas at Austin to investigate the links between exposure to early family member deaths and subsequent socioeconomic and family-building trajectories in young adulthood, as...
This $245,532 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) will support a study examining the relationship between maternal lifetime exposure to structural racism and inflammatory markers in neonatal dried blood spots. The collaborative research project between Henry Ford Health and Michigan State University Health Sciences aims to: Create a cumulative lifetime structural...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $588,063 Project Grant to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This 3-year grant, effective August 1, 2023, supports a collaborative research project to examine disparities in emotional resilience and mental health among mothers and their children facing high psychosocial stress. The research employs biocultural and...