POD Center NewsletterJune 2024
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POD Center Summer Break!
The POD Center will be going on summer break from July to August 2024. Our monthly POD Center meetings and bimonthly newsletters will resume in September for the fall!
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Investigator-Initiated Research in Genomics and Health Equity (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Funder: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Amount: $400,000
Details: The purpose of this initiative is to support investigator-initiated research in genomics and health equity, with the ultimate goal of developing approaches, generating and disseminating data, and implementing metrics or interventions that will advance the equitable use of genomics to improve health in U.S. populations. Awardees will conduct innovative and generalizable research in genomics and health equity spanning across genomic research areas and will incorporate a plan for enhancing diverse perspectives.This R21 Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) will support small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. The R21 grant mechanism supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology. Applications supporting New or Early Stage Investigators from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups traditionally underrepresented in the biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research workforce, as described in the NIH Notice of Interest in Diversity (NOT-OD-20-031), are encouraged.
Application Deadline: July 8, 2024
Amount: $2,000,000
Details: This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Center for Maternal and Child Health Medicaid Partnerships program. The purpose of the Center for Maternal and Child Health Medicaid Partnerships is to strengthen collaboration between state Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant (Title V) programs and advance innovative financing strategies that improve outcomes and reduce health disparities for maternal and child health (MCH) populations. The award recipient will build knowledge and shared priorities between state Medicaid, CHIP, and Title V programs and provide one-to-one, state-specific tailored capacity-building assistance directly to state Medicaid, CHIP, and Title V programs to support MCH. Support will include: (1) engaging state Title V, Medicaid, and CHIP programs to identify shared priorities and foster a common understanding of needs, opportunities, and best practices; (2) one-to-one, state-specific, tailored assistance to advance MCH financing; (3) support the development of innovative collaborative models leveraging HRSA, CHIP, and Medicaid funding, and (4) one-to-one capacity-building assistance to advance interagency agreements required by statute.
Application Deadline: July 10, 2024
Amount: $750,000
Details: This program will fund one entity to provide data support to rural maternal health care networks to assist efforts to improve maternal health care at the community- and regional-levels. This program will also fund the use of data to inform the improvement of rural maternal health care nationwide.
Application Deadline: July 15, 2024
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Recent Publications by POD Center
Affiliate Faculty & Trainees
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June 2024
Hoang Reede, D. H., Tancredi, D. J., & Schmidt, R. J. (2024). Maternal preconception and prenatal stressful life events in association with child neurodevelopmental outcome in MARBLES: A high familial likelihood cohort. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 114, 102364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2024.102364
Hoang Reede, D. H., Tancredi, D. J., & Schmidt, R. J. (2024). Prenatal perceived stress and urinary cortisol as risk factors for ASD and non-typical developmental outcomes in the MARBLES study. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 114, 102393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2024.102393
May 2024
Uttarwar, R. G., Mekonnen, S. A., Van Beeck, W., Wang, A., Finnegan, P., Roberts, R. F., Merenstein, D., Slupsky, C. M., & Marco, M. L. (2024). Effects of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BB-12 and yogurt on mice during oral antibiotic administration. Microbiological Research, 127794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micres.2024.127794
Parenti, M., Schmidt, R. J., Tancredi, D. J., Hertz-Picciotto, I., Walker, C. K., & Slupsky, C. M. (2024). Neurodevelopment and Metabolism in the Maternal-Placental-Fetal Unit. JAMA Network Open, 7(5), e2413399. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.13399
McKee, K., Bassis, C. M., Golob, J., Palazzolo, B., Sen, A., Comstock, S. S., Rosas-Salazar, C., Stanford, J. B., O’Connor, T., Gern, J. E., Paneth, N., Dunlop, A. L., & ECHO Cohort Consortium. (2024). Host factors are associated with vaginal microbiome structure in pregnancy in the ECHO Cohort Consortium. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 11798. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-62537-7
Sotelo-Orozco, J., & Hertz-Picciotto, I. (2024). The Association Between Gastrointestinal Issues and Psychometric Scores in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Developmental Delays, Down Syndrome, and Typical Development. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-024-06387-2
Céspedes, N., Fellows, A. M., Donnelly, E. L., Kaylor, H. L., Coles, T. A., Wild, R., Dobson, M., Schauer, J., Van de Water, J., & Luckhart, S. (2024). Basophil-Derived IL-4 and IL-13 Protect Intestinal Barrier Integrity and Control Bacterial Translocation during Malaria. 8(5), 371–383. https://doi.org/10.4049/immunohorizons.2300084
Sharifi, O., Haghani, V., Neier, K. E., Fraga, K. J., Korf, I., Hakam, S. M., Quon, G., Johansen, N., Yasui, D. H., & LaSalle, J. M. (2024). Sex-specific single cell-level transcriptomic signatures of Rett syndrome disease progression. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.16.594595
Chaney, A. M., Anderson, C. E., Arnold, C. D., Whaley, S. E., Ritchie, L., Pundi, G. R., Nguyen, C. J., & Au, L. (2024). Evaluating the Association of the Increase in the WIC Cash Value Benefit on the Diversity of MyPlate Fruits and Vegetables Redeemed and Consumed By Children in Low-Income Households. Current Developments in Nutrition, 103778. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2024.103778
Grodzki, A. C., Schelegle, E., & Lein, P. (2024). Chlorpyrifos-Induced Airway Hyperreactivity in Rats Is Dependent on NK1 Receptor Signaling. Physiology, 39(S1). https://doi.org/10.1152/physiol.2024.39.S1.2241
Watanabe, S., Souza, F. D. C., Kusumoto, I., Shen, Q., Nitin, N., Lein, P. J., & Taha, A. Y. (2024). Intraperitoneally injected d11-11(12)-epoxyeicosatrienoic acid is rapidly incorporated and esterified within rat plasma and peripheral tissues but not the brain. Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids, 102622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plefa.2024.102622
Patti, M. A., Croen, L. A., Dickerson, A. S., Joseph, R. M., Ames, J. L., Ladd-Acosta, C., Ozonoff, S., Schmidt, R. J., Volk, H. E., Hipwell, A. E., Magee, K. E., Karagas, M., McEvoy, C., Landa, R., Elliott, M. R., Mitchell, D. K., D’Sa, V., Deoni, S., Pievsky, M., … program collaborators for Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes. (2024). Reproducibility between preschool and school-age Social Responsiveness Scale forms in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes program. Autism Research : Official Journal of the International Society for Autism Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3147
Yeung, E., Biedrzycki, R. J., Gómez Herrera, L. C., Issarapu, P., Dou, J., Marques, I. F., Mansuri, S. R., Page, C. M., Harbs, J., Khodasevich, D., Poisel, E., Niu, Z., Allard, C., Casey, E., Berstein, F. M., Mancano, G., Elliott, H. R., Richmond, R., He, Y., Schmidt, R. J.,… Guan, W. (2024). Maternal age is related to offspring DNA methylation: A meta-analysis of results from the PACE consortium. Aging Cell, e14194. https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.14194
Anita, N. Z., Herrmann, N., Ryoo, S. W., Major-Orfao, C., Lin, W. Z., Kwan, F., Noor, S., Rabin, J., Marzolini, S., Nestor, S., Ruthirakuhan, M., MacIntosh, B. J., Goubran, M., Yang, P., Cogo-Moreira, H., Rapoport, M., Gallagher, D., Black, S. E., Lanctôt, K., … Taha A.Y., Swardfager, W. (2024). 173. Associations Between Cytochrome P450 - Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase Pathway Oxylipins and Cognition in People With Depressive Symptoms and Type 2 Diabetes. Biological Psychiatry, 95(10), S170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2024.02.408
McLellan, J., Croen, L. A., Iosif, A.-M., Ashwood, P., Yoshida, C., Berger, K., & Van de Water, J. (2024). Differences in mid-gestational and early postnatal neonatal cytokines and chemokines are associated with patterns of maternal autoantibodies in the context of autism. Cerebral Cortex, 34(13), 50–62. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae082
Lingampelly, S. S., Naviaux, J. C., Heuer, L. S., Monk, J. M., Li, K., Wang, L., Haapanen, L., Kelland, C. A., Van de Water, J., & Naviaux, R. K. (2024). Metabolic network analysis of pre-ASD newborns and 5-year-old children with autism spectrum disorder. Communications Biology, 7(1), 536. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06102-y
Kasap, B., Vali, K., Qian, W., Mo, L., Chithiwala, Z. H., Curtin, A. C., Ghiasi, S., & Hedriana, H. L. (2024). Transcutaneous Discrimination of Fetal Heart Rate from Maternal Heart Rate: A Fetal Oximetry Proof-of-Concept. Reproductive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43032-024-01582-z
Aris, I. M., Lin, P.-I. D., Wu, A. J., Dabelea, D., Lester, B. M., Wright, R. J., Karagas, M. R., Kerver, J. M., Dunlop, A. L., Joseph, C. L., Camargo, C. A., Ganiban, J. M., Schmidt, R. J., Strakovsky, R. S., McEvoy, C. T., Hipwell, A. E., O’Shea, T. M., McCormack, L. A., Maldonado, L. E., … ECHO Awardees and Cohorts. (2024). Birth outcomes in relation to neighborhood food access and individual food insecurity during pregnancy in the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-wide cohort study. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 119(5), 1216–1226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajcnut.2024.02.022
Haynes, S. C., Davidson, L., Tancredi, D. J., Burns, R. D., Garrison, S. L., & Marcin, J. P. (2024). Parent, physician, and therapist experience of in-person, hybrid, and all-virtual models of physiatry care for children with special healthcare needs. Academic Pediatrics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2024.04.011
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Partner Events, Publications, and Resrouces
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Undergraduate Ceremonies
Friday, June 14, 2024, 9AM and 2PM
Saturday, June 15, 2024, 9AM and 2PM
Sunday, June 16, 2024, 9AM
School of Education
Wednesday, June 12, 2024, 4PM-6PM
Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing
Thursday, June 13, 2024, 10AM-12PM
Graduate Studies – Masters Student
Thursday, June 13, 2024, 10AM
Graduate Studies – MFA and Doctoral Students
Thursday, June 13, 2024, 3PM
Graduate School of Management
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Summer Events
July 11, 2024, 10:00AM PT
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) Director's Lecture - Maternal Health
Join NINR at their upcoming Director’s Lecture as they feature maternal health expert Dr. Mahasin Mujahid, Professor at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. She will present her work on the social and structural determinants of maternal health and health disparities and risk reduction interventions to address the complex and growing morbidity and mortality concerns.
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Publications and Resrouces
Medicaid Leadership Exchange podcast: The Critical Role of Medicaid in Addressing Maternal Health Disparities
Addressing maternal health disparities is a key priority for many Medicaid agencies. This episode of the Medicaid Leadership Exchange podcast highlights the need to better address maternal health disparities, particularly for Black, American Indian, and Alaskan Native women, and people living in rural communities. It explores how Medicaid agencies are working to address maternal health disparities by collecting reliable data, engaging communities to tailor solutions, and keeping members at the heart of all decisions. The episode features perspectives from:
- Cheryl Roberts, Agency Director, Virginia Department of Medical Assistanc
- Drew Snyder, Executive Director, Mississippi Division of Medicaid
This episode is hosted by Mark Larson, former Vermont Medicaid director and senior vice president, Leadership and Capacity Building, Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS), and Jami Snyder, former Arizona and Texas Medicaid director and president and CEO, JSN Strategies.
NIH New Supplement: Gender, power, and health: Modifiable factors and opportunities for intervention
ORWH is sponsoring a new open-access supplement in Social Science & Medicine on “Gender, power, and health: Modifiable factors and opportunities for intervention” that will expand on conversations from the “2022 Gender and Health: Impacts of Structural Sexism, Gender Norms, Relational Power Dynamics, and Gender Inequities Scientific Workshop.” The supplement covers a variety of topics, including but not limited to, the health consequences of structural sexism, gender health equity, structural gendered racism, and maternal cardiovascular morbidities.
17 L.A. hospitals closed their labor wards. Inside the fight to keep one open.
Over the last decade, nearly 50 maternity wards have closed across California, with more than half shutting down in just the last four years. Seventeen of them were in Los Angeles County, where maternity ward closures have far outpaced the region’s declining birth rate. Driving the trend in L.A. are for-profit hospitals owned by multi-state corporations. For-profit companies owned 13 of the 17 hospitals that stopped delivering babies. State data shows more than half closed at a time when the hospital was making millions of dollars for investors. Those who lost the most access were the state’s poorest patients. One hospital that serves predominantly low-income patients was earning 13 times more than the median hospital operating margin in California when it shuttered its labor and delivery ward.
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