Our Research Investments

We invest broadly in maternal and child health research.

Funding spotlight

  • Maternal Health Research Collaborative for Minority-Serving Institutions (MH-RC-MSI)
    Supports minority-serving institutions of higher learning to build capacity to conduct research and study the gaps in maternal health outcomes and identify and implement community-based solutions.
  • MCH and Autism Research Consortia (RC)
    • The MCH RC builds and sustains research infrastructure to address critical evidence gaps in pregnancy, postpartum, and pediatric populations. It supports interdisciplinary collaboration to conduct timely, high-quality, applied studies aligned with MCHB priority areas, with a focus on translating findings into practice to improve maternal and child health outcomes.
    • The Autism RC advances the evidence base on effective interventions, services, supports, and systems for children and adolescents with autism and other developmental disabilities (DD) across the lifespan.
  • Autism Single Investigator Innovation Program (Autism SIIP)
    Supports research using longitudinal data to better understand risk and protective factors for autism and other developmental disabilities, and to identify effective interventions that support the transition from pediatric to adult care.
  • Secondary Data Analysis Research Studies (Autism SDAR)
    Autism SDAR supports research that analyzes existing national data sets or administrative records to answer questions that can improve the health and well-being of children and adolescents with autism and other DD.

Not all projects are competed annually.

We conducts these research studies ourselves:

  • National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH)
    We fund and direct the largest annual survey on children's health and well-being in the United States that collects data at the national and state levels. We analyze and make these data publicly available so that policymakers, researchers, and others can use it to improve the health and wellbeing of children and their families.
  • NSCH – Longitudinal Cohort
    The NSCH-LC is an extension of the annual National Survey of Children's Health. It collected information in 2023-2024 about the health and well-being of children and young adults, aged 3 to 24 years, focusing on health outcomes and related experiences of children and their families since they first responded to the 2018 or 2019 annual NSCH.

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