# ABCD-USA Consortium: Coordinating Center

> **NIH NIH U24** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · 2021 · $200,000

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
Here we request funds to continue work begun in the first funding period to pursue the following augmented aims
that expand the original scope of the ABCD study:
· Address important questions about the possible roles of gender identity, sexual identity, and sexual health
 in modifying important health, mental health, and other outcomes measured in ABCD.
· Enhance the capacity within ABCD to answer important questions about sexual health in adolescents,
 particularly about normative trajectories of gender and sexuality.
To accomplish these new aims, the ABCD consortium must make modifications to the design of the study,
adding, and sometimes developing, new methods for measuring, in a developmentally sensitive and
developmentally informed manner, the gender identity, sexual identity, and sexual health of participants in
the ABCD study.
Other modifications of the assessments across multiple domains are needed to ensure that the study can
adequately assess risks that may be increased in sexual and gender minority teens in the ABCD study;
risks that may contribute to health disparities previously reported in this group of youth.
Since receiving supplemental funding for this project, a new Gender Identity and Sexual Health (GISH)
workgroup was established, with membership from the ABCD investigator group, NIH, and CDC. As such
this workgroup functions like other expert workgroups in ABCD with responsibility for a specific set of
interactions with the CC, DAIRC, and other advisory and oversight groups within and external to the
consortium. In the proposal, we describe the CC-DAIRC-workgroup interactions required to generate,
evaluate, integrate, monitor, update, interpret, and share all data collected within the ABCD Study.
Continued funding is needed to continue revising gender assessments in ABCD, ensuring youth
acceptance and validity of proposed revisions, and to offset additional costs to the centers and sites of
expanding their assessment processes to include this set of protocol elements within the current ABCD study
design. As described above, the GISH workgroup relies on integrated support from both the CC and the
DAIRC to accomplish these aims.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10402051
- **Project number:** 3U24DA041147-07S2
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
- **Principal Investigator:** SANDRA A BROWN
- **Activity code:** U24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $200,000
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2021-05-06 → 2022-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10402051

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10402051, ABCD-USA Consortium: Coordinating Center (3U24DA041147-07S2). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10402051. Licensed CC0.

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