This $127,722 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) supports a research project conducted by Teachers College Columbia University. The project aims to examine the longitudinal associations among maternal stress, accelerated epigenetic aging, and cognitive and behavioral development in early childhood. Specifically, the study will: Investigate stress-related alterations in...
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), will fund research to evaluate the effects of the unconditional income received by families through the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act's expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC). The $187,715 award, effective from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2027, will be administered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The key...
This $249,000 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 research at the University of Southern California (USC) to evaluate the impact of prenatal housing assistance on adverse birth outcomes. The study aims to: (1) estimate the effect of prenatal housing assistance on birth outcomes using quasi-experimental methods; (2) determine if the effect varies by type or...
This National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Project Grant award (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $332,000 in funding to the University of Southern California (USC) to conduct a longitudinal study examining the long-term impacts of an early childhood development intervention program in rural Kenya. The project aims to follow up on a previous NICHD-funded study (R01HD090045 and R21HD098508) that demonstrated short-term...
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) supports research to examine the association between persistent intergenerational disadvantage and the burden of diarrheal disease and acute respiratory infection among children under five years old. The study will also investigate how disadvantage impacts healthcare utilization and whether spatial remoteness...
The federal Project Grant award of $200,000.00 was issued on September 30, 2024 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families under the Child Care Mandatory and Matching Funds of the Child Care and Development Fund (CFDA 93.596) program. The award will be used by the non-profit research organization Child Trends, Inc. to study how child care subsidy policies affect access to child care for families of children with disabilities. The research project...
This $199,362 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families under the Child Care Mandatory and Matching Funds of the Child Care and Development Fund (CFDA 93.596) program will support the "Secondary Analysis of Data on Early Care and Education: The Effects of Childcare Subsidy Policy Generosity on Equity of Program Outcomes" at the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR). The project, with...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a Project Grant (CFDA 93.865) to the University of South Carolina to conduct research on "EARLY PREDICTORS OF INFANT-PARENT COORDINATED ATTENTION AND WORD LEARNING IN PRETERM AND FULL-TERM INFANTS". The $214,925 award, which runs from August 7, 2024 to July 31, 2026, will support scientific research to explore fundamental biological mechanisms, clinical interventions, and translational research across...
The University of Southern California 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 grant, titled "Parental Well-Being and Child Development," aims to develop and test the Msingi Bora Familia (MBF) intervention, which integrates father-inclusive, gender-equitable, and family-focused curricula into the existing Msingi Bora (MB)...
This Project Grant award of $672,498.00 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (under CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) aims to estimate the impacts of social safety net program generosity on rates of neglect and physical abuse in young children. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing and expanding a safety net benefits calculator to estimate the combined benefits from major social safety net programs...