NICHD Mission

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NICHD Mission

• to ensure that every person is born healthy and
  wanted, that women suffer no harmful effects from
  reproductive processes, and that all children
  have the chance to achieve their full potential
  for healthy and productive lives, free from
  disease or disability, and to ensure the health,
  productivity, independence, and well-being of all
  people through optimal rehabilitation.
• FY 2006 Budget 1.265 billion

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Child Development and Behavior Branch (CDB)

• Behavioral Pediatrics Health Promotion
• Social and Affective Development/ Child
  Maltreatment and Violence
• Developmental Cognitive Psychology, Behavioral
  Neuroscience, Psychobiology
• Human Learning Learning Disabilities
• Language, Bilingual Biliteracy Development
  Disorders Adolescent Literacy
• Mathematics Science Cognition Learning
• Early Learning and School Readiness
• http//www.nichd.nih.gov/crmc/cdb/cdb.htm

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Research on Adolescents Interests at CDB / NICHD

• Health risk behaviors
• Injury and disease prevention
• Health (pain, stress, sleep, illness)
• Infants born at risk (long term follow-up)
• Health communication/literacy (consent)
• Health promotion (physical activity, diet,
  spirituality, effects of media)
• Adherence to medical regimens
• http//www.nichd.nih.gov/crmc/cdb/p_behave.htm

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DBSB is always interested in funding research in
these areas

• Fertility contraception
• Mortality, morbidity health
• Migration population distribution
• Family household structure and processes
• Marriage and cohabitation

• Demographic methods
• Economic demography
• Behavioral research on HIV, STDs
• Fatherhood
• Population environment
• Child care
• http//www.nichd.nih.gov/cpr/dbs/dbs.htm

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Research on Adolescents Interests at NICHD

• Predicting adolescence functioning from early
  childhood performance and experiences
• NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth
  Development
• Web site http//secc.rti.org/
• Use of secondary data analysis
• PA-05-093 - Secondary Data Analyses Based on the
  NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth
  Development
• Best mechanism is R03 with a pay line of 15

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Funding Solicitations at NICHD

• PAR-06-110 Research on Pathways Linking
  Environment, Behavior, and HIV/AIDS
• PA-05-093 Secondary Data Analyses Based on the
  NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth
  Development
• PA-05-090 Methodology and Measurement in the
  Behavioral and Social Sciences
• PA-05-081 Research on Emergency Medical Services
  for Children
• PA-05-033 Mens Heterosexual Behavior and HIV
  Infection
• PA-05-029 Social and Cultural Dimensions of
  Health
• PA-05-027 Research on Mind-Body Interactions and
  Health

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Funding Solicitations at NICHD

• PAR-05-026 Community Participation in Research
• PA-04-057 Improving Care for Dying Children and
  Their Families
• PA-04-121 Understanding Mechanisms of Health Risk
  Behavior Change in Children and Adolescents
• PA-03-159 Chronic Illness Self-Management in
  Children
• PA-03-152 Biobehavioral Pain Research
• PA-02-101 The Identification and Prevention of
  Middle Childhood Precursors of Risky Sexual
  Behavior

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NICHD Contact Information

• Dr. Sarah Friedman
• [phone] friedmas_at_exchange.nih.gov
• Dr. Lynne Haverkos
• [phone] haverkol_at_mail.nih.gov
• Dr. Susan Newcomer
• [phone] newcomes_at_mail.nih.gov