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Women's Mental Health During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period (R21): PA-12-215

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FOA Purpose: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to outline priority areas for research related to women’s mental health during pregnancy and the postpartum period.  Priority areas include basic and clinical neuroscience, studies of clinical course, epidemiological factors and risk factors, as well as interventions and services research.  The NIMH, NICHD, and NIDA are committed to supporting research that will increase scientific understanding of and treatments for mental disorders experienced by women during and following pregnancy.  Reduction of the public health burden of mental disorders during this perinatal period will improve the health and well-being of new mothers, their children and families.

Companion Funding Opportunity:

Letter of Intent Due Date: Not Applicable.

Application Due Date(s) Standard dates apply, by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization.

Expiration Date: May 8, 2015

Funding

The project is supported by grant 8U54MD007587-03 (RCMI Clinical and Translational Research award, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus) from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NIMHD or NIH.

Consortium Institutions

The Puerto Rico Clinical and Translational Research Consortium is a collaborative project of the the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, Universidad Central del Caribe and Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences.