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Maryland Population Research Center, University of Maryland

  • Michael S. Rendall, Director
  • Sangeetha Madhavan, Associate Director

The Maryland Population Research Center draws together leading scholars from diverse disciplines to support, produce, and promote population-related research of the highest scientific merit.

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High Premature Birth Rates Among U.S. Black Women May Reflect the Stress of Racism and Health and Economic Factors

Racism-related stress may help explain why Black women in the United States are over 50% more likely to deliver a premature baby than white women. Just over 14% of Black women have premature births compared with 9% of white women.1 These stark racial disparities have been documented for more than a century, reports Catherine Cubbin…

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High Obesity Rates Plus Severe Coronavirus Cases Could Strain Rural U.S. Hospitals

As coronavirus cases rise in less densely populated states in the Midwest and West, the disease, combined with high levels of obesity in rural America, could pose major challenges for health care systems, suggests Mark Lee at the University of Minnesota. People of any age with obesity face a greatly increased risk of severe illness…

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Maryland Population Research Center, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

This list includes articles in PubMed as of January 6, 2021 with a PubMed entry date between October 1, 2019 and December 31, 2020 that reference P2C, R24, or T32 grant support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development and oversight by Population Dynamics Branch Program Officials. Recent Articles…

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Recent Journal Articles by NICHD-Funded Population Centers Show Breadth of Research on Emerging Health Issues

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) recently published a new Strategic Plan focused on the Institute’s research and training efforts to understand human development, improve reproductive health, enhance the lives of children and adolescents, and optimize abilities for all. PRB created a list of illustrative grants and recently…

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