Notice of Supplemental Award; Maternal Health Research Collaborative for Minority-Serving Institutions Coordinating
HRSA is announcing a supplemental award to Morgan State University (MSU), a current HRSA awardee for the Maternal Health Research Collaborative for Minority Serving Institutions...
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department of Health and Human Services
ACTION:
Notice of supplemental award.
SUMMARY:
HRSA is announcing a supplemental award to Morgan State University (MSU), a current HRSA awardee for the Maternal Health Research Collaborative for Minority Serving Institutions (MH-RC-MSI) Coordinating Center (CC). HRSA administers this grant using funding made available by the Department of Health and Human Services' Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation's Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund. The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation's Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund supports this multi-agency data linkage project to build further data capacity. The recipient of the MH-RC-MSI CC, MSU, does not need to submit special documentation to establish eligibility. If this exception is not granted, MSU will not have the funds to test the data linkage.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Evva Assing-Murray, Senior Health Scientist, Division of Research, Office of Epidemiology and Research, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, HRSA, at
eassing-murray@hrsa.gov
and 301-594-4113.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Intended Recipient of the Award:
Morgan State University.
Amount of Non-Competitive Award:
One award for $400,000.
Project Period:
September 30, 2023, to September 29, 2028.
Assistance Listing Number:
93.110.
Award Instrument:
Non-competitive single-source supplement.
Justification:
The project,
Linking the Boston Birth Cohort and Pregnancy to Early Life Longitudinal Data System and Community-Level Health Databases: A Longitudinal Cohort of Mother-Child Dyads,
will create a dataset with a broad array of data on biological, socio-economic, home and neighborhood environment, behavioral risk and protective factors, health services and expenses across the developmental and life stages. In addition, this project intends to make this novel dataset shareable to other researchers.
This supplement will support testing the dataset, its user-friendliness, and the sharing process.
The MH-RC-MSI CC is uniquely qualified to test and validate the data linkage and sharing process through use cases and research studies because:
They have the current infrastructure and connections with 16 HRSA funded MH-RC-MSI Research Centers to ensure coordinated testing and validation;
They support numerous early-stage investigators through a mentorship program who can use the dataset to conduct research projects on maternal health; and
They have a record of successfully managing HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau-funded projects that examine a broad range of adverse maternal health outcomes since 2023 and have consistently met goals and objectives.
These data linkage activities run from September 2025 to July 2027, during years 3 through 4 of the 5-year Minority-Serving Institutions project period. Not making the award would preclude testing of the data linkage as described in the project proposal.
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“Notice of Supplemental Award; Maternal Health Research Collaborative for Minority-Serving Institutions Coordinating,” thefederalregister.org (September 30, 2026), https://thefederalregister.org/documents/2026-19937/notice-of-supplemental-award-maternal-health-research-collaborative-for-minority-serving-institutions-coordinating.
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