The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a 5-year, $1,858,413 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct a randomized controlled trial of a multi-component family intervention called MILAP (Meaning "Unity and Reconciliation" in Nepali). The intervention aims to lower depression and address intimate partner violence (IPV) among young women in Nepal. UCSF is partnering with...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $2,856,918 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to evaluate the efficacy of an enhanced counseling intervention, the Friendship Bench, in improving perinatal depression and engagement in HIV care among women living with HIV in Malawi. The project aims to conduct a fully powered randomized controlled trial to assess the intervention's impact on perinatal mental...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for CFDA Program 93.242 "Mental Health Research Grants" will assess the effects of a multisectoral climate-smart agricultural intervention called "Shamba Maisha" (SM) on the reproductive and sexual health of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Western Kenya. The $3,640,897 award to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) will fund a school- and home-based cluster randomized trial...
The federal Project Grant awarded to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, valued at $5,393,812, supports a longitudinal study investigating the impact of changes in social determinants of health (SDOH) on the mental health of adolescents and young adults (AYA) in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research is funded through the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) administered by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The study...
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has been awarded a $709,872 Project Grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855). The grant will fund the development and pilot testing of a couple-based intervention to address perinatal depression and improve adherence to prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV in Malawi over a 3-year period from Jul 2024 to Jul 2027....
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), will provide $214,160 to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct a pilot trial. The objective is to evaluate how the Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) platform in Burkina Faso can be leveraged to deliver co-interventions that may augment the efficacy of SMC and reduce the...
This federal Project Grant award for $692,043, awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under its Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), will support research to investigate the role of presynaptic homeostatic plasticity in mental health disorders, including autism and intellectual disability.
The research, conducted by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), aims to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying homeostatic plasticity in the...
This $689,409 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) to the University of Illinois will support a clinical translational study to determine the role of the microbiota-gut-brain axis (MGBA) in perinatal depression (PND). The research aims to establish the causal influence of new MGBA signatures on depressive symptom severity during pregnancy and the postpartum period using a...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) in the amount of $499,452 aims to develop a quality assessment tool that can be completed by mental health service users in low-resource settings. The tool will be co-created with patients, caregivers, and healthcare system stakeholders to evaluate factors such as provider communication, clinical space, medication availability, and educational resources. The tool will be piloted...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under CFDA Program #93.242 (Mental Health Research Grants) aims to assess the effectiveness of the Sibling Support for Adolescent Girls in Emergencies (SSAGE) intervention to prevent mental health disorders among forcibly displaced adolescent girls in Colombia. The $666,125 award to the Washington University Office of Sponsored Research Services will fund a pilot randomized control trial to test the SSAGE...