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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
- Can home blood pressure monitoring during pregnancy lower risks to moms and babies?
Global Health Matters, January/February 2026 - Longer breastfeeding linked to blood-pressure lowering effects of certain infant gut bacteria
NHLBI News, March 4, 2025 - Glutathione peroxidase 3 is a potential biomarker for konzo , co-authored by Fogarty International Research Scientist Matthew Bramble
Nature Communications, September 6, 2024 - When overweight and undernourished live under one roof
Global Health Matters, July/August 2024 - Empowering women and children from Nepal to the Amazon
Global Health Matters, July/August 2024 - Exploring the genomic traits of infant-associated microbiota members from a Zimbabwean cohort , co-authored by Fogarty trainee Danai Tavonga Zhou
BMC Genomics, July 25, 2024 - Umbilical cord milking does not appear to increase risk of neurodevelopmental delay in non-vigorous infants
NIH News, July 1, 2024
- 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)
- 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
- 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 - UNICEF Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
- UNICEF annual State of the World's Children reports
Updated February 26, 2026
- Notice of Special Interest: Research to Improve Pre-Pregnancy Care and Enhance Healthy Birth Intervals NOT-HD-23-003
Expiration date: September 8, 2024 - Notice of Information: NIMH High-Priority Areas for Research on Women's Mental Health during the Perinatal Period (NOT-MH-21-270)
Released June 23, 2021 - Funding opportunities from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- Funding opportunities from the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH)