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Watch our December 3, 2024, pre-application technical assistance SDAR Grantee Webinar, for more information about the open funding opportunities: Maternal and Child Health SDAR (HRSA-25-023) and Autism SDAR (HRSA-25-024).
Applications are due by February 25, 2025.
The SDAR program supports research focused on maternal and child health (MCH) that only uses existing national databases and records that are publicly available. The goal is to better understand how to improve the health of mothers and children.
We give grants for two types of SDAR studies:
MCH SDAR
We gave funding to five organizations in fiscal year 2024 (FY 24). Each award is about $120,000 per year for one year.
Read the closed notice of funding opportunity (HRSA-23-068).
Autism SDAR
We gave funding to three organizations during FY 24. The award is about $120,000 for one year.
Read the closed notice of funding opportunity (HRSA-23-069).
The research studies look at national data. The goal is to make public health systems better at the community, state, and national levels.
Both the MCH SDAR and Autism SDAR programs speed up research by using existing data and records. With this data, researchers:
This approach is different from collecting new data, which can be more expensive and take more time.
The funding usually goes to universities. The studies focus on:
MCH SDAR studies should help make health care services better, more efficient, and easier to access.
Autism SDAR studies should help look for the best ways to improve the health of children and youth with autism and other developmental disabilities.
The research usually focuses on groups that need more support, like families with low-income, racial and ethnic minorities, people living in rural areas, and children with special health care needs.
This research program wants clinical, health, and social service settings to use the results. Awardees share their findings through publications and conferences.
The goal is to use research to make better policies, practices, and resource decisions that improve the health of mothers and children.
Our EnRICH webinar series happens about four times a year. They give researchers and practitioners a chance to share new solutions to current challenges in applied and translational maternal and child health research and practice. Each event features one or more experts in the field.
Stay up to date with the MCHB Division of Research. Sign up for the MCH Research listserv for alerts about grants, research, partnerships, and EnRICH webinars.
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Need more information, or have a specific question? Email MCHSDAR@hrsa.gov