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Drug Use, Suicide, and Homicide Account for More Than a Fifth of Pregnancy-Associated Deaths

In the United States, more than 20% of deaths during pregnancy and the first year after childbirth are due to drug use, suicide, or homicide, suggests a study funded by…

Children Born During Pandemic May Experience Slight Neurodevelopmental Delays

Infants born during the pandemic—regardless of whether their mothers had COVID-19 during pregnancy—scored slightly lower on certain tests of neurodevelopment at six months old, compared to a similar group of…

New NICHD COVID-19 Funding Opportunity

NICHD is interested in grant applications that examine the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the social determinants of health and the health of underserved and health disparities populations. NICHD…

NIH Invites Feedback on Climate Change and Health Initiative

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…

NICHD-funded TransPop Data Now Available

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…

NICHD Decoding Maternal Morbidity Data Challenge

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…