MCH Research Program

Program Announcements

November 2000-Seventeen New Research Projects Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau in FY 2000

Thirty-one (31) of the 65 new research applications reviewed by the MCH Research Study Section in FY-2000 were scored and thus judged to have merit; 17 out of the 31 were subsequently funded. The first-year costs for the 17 funded projects total $4,612,034. When the approved multi-year requests of the 17 projects is considered, the Bureau's investment in new research increases to $14,306,265.

Six (6) of the17 funded projects address one or more of the 15 research priorities established recently by the Bureau for FY2000-2003. Nine (9) of the 17 address health and developmental concern of minority mothers and children. All the nine projects restrict their investigation to one racial or ethnic group.

Fourteen (14) of the 31 research applications judged to have merit in FY-2000 were not funded because of a lack of additional program funds. The first year funds requested by this group of applications total $4,185,538.

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For more information about the MCH Research Program, contact Kishena Wadhwani, c/o Maternal and Child Health Bureau, 5600 Fishers Lane, Parklawn Building Room 18A-55, Rockville, Maryland 20857; phone: (301) 4443-2927; e-mail: kwadhwan@hrsa.gov.