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Community Child Health Network Principal Investigator of the Chicago Site: Madeleine Shalowitz Co-investigators: Emma Adam, Greg Duncan, Christopher Kuzawa, Thom McDade This NICHD-funded project is a unique academic-community collaboration, initiated with the aim of using a community-based participatory research model to improve our understanding of how economic and social environments contribute to early health and developmental disparities along racial and economic lines. This longitudinal study will be fielded in a representative sample of families from 5 U.S. regions, and is being designed and coordinated by a team including both an academic and a community member P.I. at each site. Our theoretical model and research design emphasize the potential impact of social and economic environments on physiological stress and health in mothers and fathers during the prenatal and interparturitional (between pregnancy) periods. The impact of maternal and paternal stress on prenatal and early childhood development, through both physiological and social pathways, will be examined. The Community Action for Child Health Equity (CACHE) is the Chicago site which explores how community, family and individual influences interact with biological influences and results in health disparities in perinatal outcome and infant and early childhood mortality and morbidity. Funding Source: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development For More Information Please Contact: beth.kauffman@gmail.com |