# Component A: New York City Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, a surveillance system of maternal experiences and behaviors around the time of pregnancy to inform local programs and policies

> **NIH ALLCDC U01** · NEW YORK CITY HEALTH/MENTAL HYGIENE · 2020 · $144,018

## Abstract

Component A: Core Surveillance
Project Summary/Abstract
The Bureau of Maternal, Infant, and Reproductive Health (BMIRH) of the New York City (NYC)
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) proposes to continue the Pregnancy Risk
Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) in NYC. PRAMS is a surveillance system to identify and
monitor maternal experiences and behaviors around the time of pregnancy. The overall goal of
BMIRH is to achieve equitable and improved maternal, infant, and reproductive health outcomes in
NYC. Three overarching objectives are to: 1) reduce racial and ethnic inequities in infant mortality; 2)
reduce racial and ethnic inequities in preventable severe maternal morbidity and maternal mortality;
and 3) reduce racial and ethnic inequities in access to contraceptive information and services among
youth ages 13-19. Data gathered from PRAMS will be linked to items from the birth certificate,
offering a unique source of information on maternal, infant, and reproductive health in NYC.
Each month approximately 180 women who gave birth in the previous two to four months will be
randomly selected from NYC birth certificate records to participate in PRAMS. Women who give
birth to low birthweight infants (<2,500 grams) will be oversampled. Women will be contacted by
mail, with telephone follow-up for non-respondents. To ensure adequate participation, women will be
sent $20 cash with the first mailing of the survey. Additionally, the PRAMS survey will be available in
English, Spanish, and Chinese. The data collection cycle for each monthly sample will lasts up to 95
days. The DOHMH will contract with the Bloustein Center for Survey Research (BCSR) at Rutgers,
the State University of New Jersey, for data collection and management activities. BCSR has
experience working with several PRAMS jurisdictions and consistently produces high-quality data
while adhering to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) protocol.
PRAMS data will be weighted by CDC to represent NYC resident women giving birth in NYC. The
specific aims of the project are to use PRAMS data to inform NYC's priorities related to improving
maternal and infant health, and its choice of programs, policies, and activities toward that end.
PRAMS data will also serve as a NYC-specific data source for monitoring key Healthy People 2030
and Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Maternal and Child Heath Bureau
indicators. The DOHMH will partner with academics, community groups, providers, government
agencies, and professional organizations to ensure PRAMS data are used to support programs and
policies to improve maternal and infant health.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10236828
- **Project number:** 1U01DP006588-01
- **Recipient organization:** NEW YORK CITY HEALTH/MENTAL HYGIENE
- **Principal Investigator:** Hannah Searing
- **Activity code:** U01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** ALLCDC
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $144,018
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2021-05-01 → 2026-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10236828

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10236828, Component A: New York City Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, a surveillance system of maternal experiences and behaviors around the time of pregnancy to inform local programs and policies (1U01DP006588-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10236828. Licensed CC0.

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