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Pathways to integrate maternal-child health and nutrition interventions to transform equity and human potential

Award Number: U01HD115256
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/23/2021
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2026

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Pathways to integrate maternal-child health and nutrition interventions to transform equity and human potential - SUMMARY ABSTRACT Maternal and child health is critical to achieving the Healthy People 2030 Goals. Investing in integrated nurturing care interventions from preconception through childhood and adolescence defines one’s developmental trajectory with benefits that accumulate across the life course and promote social justice (i.e., taking equity one step further by fixing the systems for generations to come). COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted essential nurturing care services such as prenatal, perinatal, and pediatric services. As a result, over a million preventable child and maternal deaths globally are projected to occur due to extreme poverty and household food insecurity (HFI; lack of consistent access to enough healthful food for an active, healthy life due to limited financial resources). Amid the COVID-19, HFI in the US tripled among households with children (~19.5%), disproportionately burdening marginalized low income and families of color. HFI is strongly linked with racial/ethnic inequities and adverse maternal-child health and nutrition outcomes. Integrating effective food security interventions within nurturing care services as a COVID-19 response & recovery efforts is an achievable strategy to promote equity. The West Las Vegas Promise Neighborhood (WLVPN) is an intervention addressing social determinants of health to reduce structural racism amid COVID-19 in historically racial/ethnic marginalized communities in the Southwest US. The WLVPN is implemented by over 50 multi-sector partners in key life domains (health, education, employment, housing, and social justice) coordinated by Nevada Partners, Inc., with whom we have a solid and long-term collaboration. While WLVPN social intervention is a unique opportunity and platform to address endemic inequities in maternal-child mortality and food insecurity levels, it lacks focus on maternal-child health and nutrition. Therefore, our partnership with Nevada Partners, Inc. is well-placed for promoting the maternal-child component within WLVPN and advancing implementation and equity research. Our community-based participatory approach will use a racial equity framework to co-create WITH the community an intervention to integrate maternal-child health and nutrition consisted of a bundle of effective food security interventions retrieved from the literature (e.g., universal screening, community referral, monitoring system, and nutrition-focused counseling strategies) adapted and integrated into the nurturing care services within WLVPN communities. A Hybrid Type III quasi-experimental within-site will be designed to 1) develop and implement an equity-focused system-level intervention to integrate maternal-child health and nutrition and 2) assess the effectiveness of this intervention in decreasing levels of food insecurity and/or improve health outcomes of pregnant women and their young children under the age of 3, which will nurture their potentials, enabling them to thrive. This project is designed to inform how best multi-sectoral interventions (maternal-child health and food insecurity interventions) can be integrated to promote transformation on the maternal-child health and nutrition of historically marginalized communities.


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 = $813,346 )
2025	2025	BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4505 S MARYLAND PKWY	LAS VEGAS	NV	89154	CLARK	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	004	4	7/24/2025	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$64,365
2025	2025	BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4505 S MARYLAND PKWY	LAS VEGAS	NV	89154	CLARK	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	002	4	5/6/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$748,981
2025	2024	BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4505 S MARYLAND PKWY	LAS VEGAS	NV	89154	CLARK	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	3	4/23/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2025	2024	BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4505 S MARYLAND PKWY	LAS VEGAS	NV	89154	CLARK	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	3	5/5/2025	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$0
2025	2024	BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4505 S MARYLAND PKWY	LAS VEGAS	NV	89154	CLARK	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	003	3	7/10/2025	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$0
														Subtotal = $813,346

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $1,012,045 )
2024	2024	BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4505 S MARYLAND PKWY	LAS VEGAS	NV	89154	CLARK	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	003	3	8/27/2024	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$53,432
2024	2024	BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4505 S MARYLAND PKWY	LAS VEGAS	NV	89154	CLARK	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	004	3	9/24/2024	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	-$53,432
2024	2024	BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4505 S MARYLAND PKWY	LAS VEGAS	NV	89154	CLARK	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	002	3	7/23/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$217,370
2024	2024	BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4505 S MARYLAND PKWY	LAS VEGAS	NV	89154	CLARK	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	001	3	6/12/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$517,750
2024	2024	BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4505 S MARYLAND PKWY	LAS VEGAS	NV	89154	CLARK	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	005	3	9/25/2024	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$53,432
2024	2023	BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4505 S MARYLAND PKWY	LAS VEGAS	NV	89154	CLARK	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	2	5/1/2024	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$223,493
														Subtotal = $1,012,045

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $792,921 )
2023	2023	BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4505 S MARYLAND PKWY	LAS VEGAS	NV	89154	CLARK	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	001	2	9/1/2023	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$158,620
2023	2023	BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4505 S MARYLAND PKWY	LAS VEGAS	NV	89154	CLARK	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	002	2	9/2/2023	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$0
2023	2023	BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION	4505 S MARYLAND PKWY	LAS VEGAS	NV	89154	CLARK	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	2	8/17/2023	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$634,301
														Subtotal = $792,921

Grand Total All Awards = $2,618,312

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Pathways to integrate maternal-child health and nutrition interventions to transform equity and human potential

Award Number: U01HD115256

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

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

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/23/2021

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2026

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