Maternal and child health news, resources and funding for global health researchers

Fogarty has a strong commitment to improving the health of children, adults, families and communities throughout the world. Several Fogarty programs currently address issues related to maternal and child health, including vaccinations, trauma, birth defects, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), fetal alcohol syndrome and childhood nutrition.

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) leads NIH research efforts in the fields of child health and development, including pregnancy and fertility. The NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) works in partnership across NIH to ensure that women's health research is part of the scientific framework at the NIH and throughout the scientific community.

Fogarty participated in the MAL-ED program to investigate linkages between malnutrition and intestinal infections and their effects on children in the developing world. Fogarty and NIH partners also support research to reduce household air pollution from elemental stoves for cooking or heating, which impacts women and children.

Fogarty Grants

View a full list of active and recent grant awards focusing on maternal and child healthresearch

Recent Maternal and Child Health News

• WHO and UNICEF launch free online course to address children’s environmental health
  WHO news, March 13, 2024
• Identifying barriers to life-saving diarrhea care
  NIH Research Matters, March 5, 2024
• Progress Toward Rubella and Congenital Rubella Syndrome Elimination — Worldwide, 2012–2022
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, February 29, 2024
• Intervention reduces likelihood of developing postpartum anxiety and depression by more than 70%
  NIH news, February 26, 2024
• Progress Toward Measles Elimination — World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region, 2019–2022
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, February 22, 2024
• Utilization of opportunistic cervical cancer screening in Nigeria, co-authored by Fogarty Emerging Global Leader Jonah Musa
  Cancer Causes and Control, January 2024

NIH News and Resources

• NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH): Global Health Research
• Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD): Office of Global Health (OGH)
  

Other US Government Resources

• United States Agency for International Development (USAID): maternal and child health
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): maternal and infant health
• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): Maternal and Child Health Bureau

Other Online Resources

• Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), supported in part by the NIH: Harmonized international survey data on maternal, child and reproductive health
• Kaiser Family Foundation Fact Sheet: The U.S. Government and Global Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
• Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development
  USAID, the Government of Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, DFID and KOICA
• World Health Organization:
  • WHO on Maternal Health
  • Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents Health 2016-2030, published 2015
  • WHO report: Air pollution and child health: prescribing clean air, published October 2018
• UNICEF Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
  • Maternal Health
  • Child Mortality 
• UNICEF annual State of the World's Children reports
  

Updated March 21, 2024