# TJU-JNMC Global Network for Women's & Children's Health Research Unit

> **NIH NIH UG1** · THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $607,360

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
Under a cooperative agreement with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development (NICHD), Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) and its partner, KLE University’s Jawaharlal
Nehru Medical College (JNMC), have the long-term objective of continued participation in the Global Network
for Women's and Children's Health Research and continued collaboration in the operation of the TJU-JNMC
Women’s and Children’s Health Research Unit. As a member of a multicenter international research network,
the TJU-JNMC Research Unit will participate in the design and implementation of research addressing gaps in
scientific knowledge associated with disease processes and treatment strategies that can affect health
outcomes of mothers and infants globally, but especially in low and lower-middle income countries.
A goal of the Global Network is “to conduct cost-effective, high impact, multi-center, large scale clinical studies
targeted at understanding the best method to reduce maternal and infant mortality and morbidity among global
populations with the highest burden of death and disability” (RFA-HD-18-009). Specific aims of the TJU-JNMC
Research Unit to achieve the goal during the next five-year cycle include:
 • To ensure continued growth, development and sustainability of the TJU-JNMC Research Unit, which
 oversees the program of women's and children's health research based at JNMC in Belagavi, Karnataka,
 India; and to build research capacity within new areas of Karnataka State to facilitate study participation
 among targeted populations that have especially high prevalence of poor pregnancy outcomes,
 • To function as a member of the Global Network collaborative group, fostering communication, innovation
 and research excellence and thereby strengthening the Network’s role in global health research and
 ensuring a significant Global Network research agenda and the conduct of multiple, common research
 protocols that address the major causes of morbidity and mortality in women and their infants and young
 children in low-resource settings,
 • To identify and address gaps in maternal and child health research and utilize a team-based approach to
 collaboratively design, develop, implement and evaluate promising health interventions—especially those
 directed at reducing preterm birth, and to conduct formative, translational and implementation research,
and
 • To disseminate research findings and promote progress toward Sustainable Development Goal targets for
 maternal, newborn and under-5 mortality and influence health policy and health system changes based
 upon research evidence generated in India and other low- and lower middle-income countries.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10160941
- **Project number:** 5UG1HD076457-09
- **Recipient organization:** THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** RICHARD J DERMAN
- **Activity code:** UG1 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $607,360
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2013-07-01 → 2023-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10160941

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10160941, TJU-JNMC Global Network for Women's & Children's Health Research Unit (5UG1HD076457-09). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10160941. Licensed CC0.

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