NIH Announces Maternal Health Challenge Winners
NIH announced the final winners of its Connecting the Community for Maternal Health Challenge.
Eight nonprofit organizations received cash prizes for their efforts to develop, implement and conduct research projects to improve maternal health outcomes in their communities.
NICHD sponsored the two-year challenge as part of NIH’s Implementing a Maternal Health and PRegnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE) initiative, which seeks to reduce preventable causes of maternal deaths and improve health before, during and after pregnancy.
HeroX, in partnership with FedTech, supported the design, implementation and management of the challenge on behalf of NIH through a multi-award contract from NASA.
Nurturely of Eugene, Ore., received first place for “Carrying for the Culture,” a project to test the effect of an infant-carrying intervention on lactation and postpartum depression among Black parents.
Second place was awarded to Central Jersey Family Health Consortium of North Brunswick, NJ. Their project, “Can It Happen to Me? Developing a Pre-Pregnancy Maternal Morbidity Risk Algorithm,” seeks to develop a data-driven tool to identify maternal risk factors and pregnancy outcomes.
Learn more about the challenge and the winning organizations at https://go.nih.gov/8mke0Ed.