This federal Project Grant award, provided through the Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110) by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), will support the Center for Health Policy Development in delivering a $792,334 initiative focused on improving maternal and child health outcomes and reducing disparities through policy innovation. Over the 3-year award period from September 2024 to September 2027, the Center will leverage its expertise in working...
This $25,869,224 federal Project Grant award is provided by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant to the States program (CFDA 93.994). The grant funding supports the Florida Department of Health in delivering comprehensive maternal and child health services to improve the health and well-being of mothers, children, and families across the state. Key services and initiatives funded through this two-year award include...
This $600,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110) will support maternal and child health research activities at the University of Michigan. The award, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2027, will enable the University to conduct cutting-edge research to enhance healthcare services, training, and innovative approaches to address critical maternal and child health...
This $356,829 Project Grant award, provided by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau under the Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110), aims to reduce health disparities in maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes. The key objectives are to: Examine cannabis communication received during prenatal care visits across states and over time, including variations in communication received across maternal sociodemographic characteristics, social determinants of health,...
The U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $1,200,000 Project Grant under the Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110) to the Public Health Law Center Inc., a non-profit organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota. The project aims to deliver legal capacity-building technical assistance to accelerate state and local policy innovation for improving maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes, with a focus on policies to increase access to...
This $400,000 Project Grant was awarded on September 30, 2024 by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) under the Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110). The grant supports the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) in providing technical assistance and education to state legislators and staff to build their capacity to develop, implement, and evaluate innovative state-level policy initiatives that improve outcomes and reduce health disparities for...
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 for $480,000.00 was made by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (CFDA 93.110 Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs) to the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) on July 1, 2024. The award will fund a 2-year research project to conduct secondary data analysis on maternal and child health topics. UCHC, a leading academic medical center, has an extensive portfolio of federal grants and contracts supporting cutting-edge biomedical...
This $823,769 federal project grant, awarded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau under the Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs (CFDA 93.110), will support the Florida Department of Health's Office of Deputy Secretary for Operations in expanding pediatric mental health care access. The grant, effective from July 31, 2024 through September 29, 2025, will enable the agency to deliver a range of specialized services, including medical screening, public health surveillance,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under CFDA program 93.865 (Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research), is funding a $677,945 mixed-methods study to examine the impacts of telehealth policies on inequities in perinatal behavioral health care access and outcomes. The study aims to: 1) develop a dataset on the evolution of state-level telehealth policies relevant to perinatal behavioral healthcare for Medicaid...
This $480,000 three-year Project Grant award from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (CFDA 93.110 Maternal and Child Health Federal Consolidated Programs) will support a research project at Florida State University examining biopsychosocial determinants of maternal and child health (MCH) disparities in rural, low-income areas. The project aims to: 1) identify risk and resilience profiles differentiating MCH outcomes over 3 years postpartum, 2) analyze time-sensitive risk and resilience factors predicting MCH, 3) investigate racial stress and discrimination as moderators of risk/resilience factors on MCH among rural, low-income Black families, and 4) compare MCH outcomes across rural low-SES, urban low-SES, and urban middle-class families. The project will leverage three national longitudinal datasets to conduct advanced statistical modeling and disseminate findings to academic, healthcare, policy, and public audiences. This research seeks to address critical gaps in understanding MCH disparities and inform programs and policies to improve maternal and child health, especially for underserved rural and minority populations.