The Steering Committee of the National Institutes of Health Climate Change and Human Health Working Group invites feedback on the approaches NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices can take to enhance research on the health implications of climate change in the United States and globally. Responses will be accepted through August 30, 2021. For more information:…

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Data from TransPop, the first national probability sample of transgender individuals in the United States, is now available through Data Sharing for Demographic Research (DSDR). A primary goal of the TransPop study is to provide researchers with a representative sample of transgender people in the United States. The study examines a variety of health-relevant domains including health…

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New research supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the National Institutes of Health aims to deepen public understanding of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and inform the response. This list of recently published journal articles shows the ways current and former NICHD-funded Population Centers are contributing…

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The NICHD Decoding Maternal Morbidity Data Challenge has launched! NICHD is seeking innovative approaches to secondary analyses of data collected from the Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers-to-be (nuMoM2b). Using fresh and unique methods of computational analysis, data mining, or learning approaches, Challenge innovators can help identify factors and interventions that can reduce maternal morbidity and severe maternal morbidity….

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NIH launched an effort to end structural racism in biomedical research through a new initiative called UNITE. NIH Director Francis Collins issued a statement committing NIH to instituting new ways to support diversity, equity, and inclusion, and identifying and dismantling any policies and practices that may harm our workforce and our science. NIH has also…

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NICHD has published funding opportunity announcements for P2C and R24 applications: Population Dynamics Centers Research Infrastructure Program FY 2022 (P2C Clinical Trial Not Allowed) : RFA-HD-22-013 Coordinating Center for the NICHD Population Dynamics Centers Research Infrastructure Program FY 2022 (R24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) : RFA-HD-22-014

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