This federal Project Grant award of $266,945, provided 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), will support the Yale Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Promotion (MNCHP) Training Program. The primary goal of this 5-year program is to train pre-doctoral students and post-doctoral research fellows on the co-design, implementation, evaluation, and scale-up...
This Project Grant award of $134,979 from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110) supports research, training, and innovative healthcare interventions to improve maternal and child health outcomes. The award was granted on June 1, 2025 with an ultimate completion date of May 31, 2030. The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as the Clinical...
This federal Project Grant award of $800,000 from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110) supports the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) in advancing maternal and child health (MCH) equity through policy initiatives. The key objectives of this 3-year project are to: 1) develop and implement a learning collaborative to support six cross-sector state-led teams in creating housing...
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,...
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)...
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 a $1,529,216 research study to reduce anemia among young, preconception women in Nepal. The study will test the effectiveness of the "Sumadhur" household-level behavior change intervention, which aims to improve nutrition knowledge, gender norms, household relationships, and the status of...
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 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 a randomized controlled trial of an agricultural livelihood intervention to improve maternal and newborn health and nutrition in Kenya. The $1,463,500 award, effective January 17, 2025 through December 31, 2029, will evaluate the impact of providing farming support and skills training to 410...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) totaling $692,141 will fund research to address employment-related barriers to prenatal care for minoritized pregnant patients. The primary awardee, Duke University, will develop and pilot test the PROMOTE (Provider Remote Obstetric-related Employment Education) intervention to educate obstetric clinicians on federal employment...
This federal Project Grant award of $418,178 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to provide mechanistic insights into the neurobiological mechanisms by which maternal sensitivity is compromised by postpartum depression. Specifically, the University of Massachusetts (UMass), through its Office of Grant & Contract Administration, will use intersectional viral...