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Rosie the Chatbot: Leveraging Automated and Personalized Health Information Communication to Reduce Disparities in Maternal and Child Health

Award Number: R01MD016037
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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PROJECT ABSTRACT/SUMMARY Stark racial/ethnic disparities are prevalent for infant mortality and birthing people mortality and morbidity due to the interacting effects of systemic racism, homophobia, and transphobia that hinder protective social determinants of health and barriers to affordable, high-quality, culturally competent, and affirming prenatal and postnatal healthcare. The Rosie project has the potential to alter the way health information is presented to vulnerable populations. Currently, some popular programs involve resource-intensive home visits (limited in scale due to staff and cost constraints) or non-personalized text messages (may not directly address an individual's questions). We developed Rosie the chatbot that addresses both of these possible limitations by representing a scalable tool that can have widespread reach across geographies and is personalized and responsive to an individual's specific informational needs. Our Parent Grant Specific Aims are: 1) Develop technology for a chatbot, Rosie, that will provide health informational support to vulnerable mothers the moment they need it; 2) Evaluate the use of Rosie on maternal and infant outcomes; and 3) Release an open- source packet for the construction of a chatbot. This supplement proposes extensions of the Rosie software to serve diverse sexual and gender minority (SGM) communities. Supplemental aims include: 1) Enable Rosie to serve diverse sexual and gender minority (SGM) communities, and 2) Explore the feasibility and acceptability of Rosie to serve diverse sexual and gender minority (SGM) communities. The supplemental activities extend the potential impact of the Rosie mobile app by making the software resource more responsive to the needs of SGM pregnant and new parents of color, accessible, interactive, and adaptable to the different needs of users, community organizations, and health researchers. Furthermore, the Rosie software importantly removes technical barriers associated with obtaining and constructing a chatbot that can be adapted to a variety of communities and health needs.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2025	2024	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	3112 LEE BUILDING	COLLEGE PARK	MD	20742	PRINCE GEORGES	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	4	1/2/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2025	2024	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	3112 LEE BUILDING	COLLEGE PARK	MD	20742	PRINCE GEORGES	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	4	12/13/2024	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$0
2025	2024	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	3112 LEE BUILDING	COLLEGE PARK	MD	20742	PRINCE GEORGES	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	002	4	1/2/2025	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $686,569 )
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	3112 LEE BUILDING	COLLEGE PARK	MD	20742	PRINCE GEORGES	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	4	8/20/2024	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$99,999
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	3112 LEE BUILDING	COLLEGE PARK	MD	20742	PRINCE GEORGES	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	4	6/23/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$586,570
														Subtotal = $686,569

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $826,610 )
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	3112 LEE BLDG 7809 REGENTS DR	COLLEGE PARK	MD	20742	PRINCE GEORGES	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	3	6/24/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$604,712
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	3112 LEE BLDG 7809 REGENTS DR	COLLEGE PARK	MD	20742	PRINCE GEORGES	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	3	9/10/2023	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$221,898
														Subtotal = $826,610

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $604,965 )
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	3112 LEE BLDG 7809 REGENTS DR	COLLEGE PARK	MD	20742	PRINCE GEORGES	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	2	6/27/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$604,965
2022	2021	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	3112 LEE BLDG 7809 REGENTS DR	COLLEGE PARK	MD	20742	PRINCE GEORGES	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	1	2/15/2022	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $604,965

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $597,635 )
2021	2021	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	3112 LEE BLDG 7809 REGENTS DR	COLLEGE PARK	MD	20742	PRINCE GEORGES	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	1	9/24/2021	NEW	$597,635
														Subtotal = $597,635

Grand Total All Awards = $2,715,779

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Rosie the Chatbot: Leveraging Automated and Personalized Health Information Communication to Reduce Disparities in Maternal and Child Health

Award Number: R01MD016037

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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