Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities and Their Effects on the Health of Children

Grant not currently being offered. 

Goals:
  • To foster research within the SPP by providing funds to investigators who study the effects of racial and socioeconomic disparities on the health of children, in an effort to better understand these inequities and strive to improve the health of all children by addressing them.
  • To fund a pilot project which will lead to long-term research support from other granting agencies.

Use of Funds:

The funds are to be used to facilitate basic or applied scientific research that focuses on how racial and or socioeconomic disparities affect the health of children. Diseases studied can included, but are not limited to infectious, neoplastic, biochemical, behavioral, physiological, and genetic diseases. The research must include some examination of pathologic variables; either laboratory or anatomic characteristics and the principal investigator must in the field of pediatric pathology. Collaborators in other disciplines are encouraged. Appropriate expenditures include capital equipment, reagents and supplies, research-related travel, salary supplementation, service costs (e.g., electron microscopy, histology), and animal care costs. Indirect costs are not allowed.

Past Grant Winner

Year Name Institution Research Project
2021 Alexa Freedman, MD NorthShore University Health System Racial disparities in fetal growth: the role of fetal gene expression”