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

> **NIH NIH UG1** · THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $601,958

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
Building on a history of more than two decades of successful collaboration among Thomas Jefferson University
(TJU), Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (JNMC), and the NICHD Global Network for Women's and Children's
Health Research, we seek to ensure the continued growth, development, and sustainability of our partnership
via the next cycle of the Global Network (GN). Specific project aims include:
• Provide experienced leadership within the GN fostering innovation, research excellence, and conduct of
 common protocols addressing major causes of maternal/child morbidity/mortality in LMICs, and incorporating
 implementation research aiming to scale up successful interventions and influence public health policy;
• Identify and address gaps in maternal and child health research, utilizing a team-based approach to
 design, develop, implement, and evaluate promising health interventions, focusing on those addressing public
 health crises that impact the health of pregnant/lactating women and their offspring, and promoting progress
 toward achievement of the NICHD Strategic Plan 2020 and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals for
 maternal, newborn, and under-5 mortality, and, as appropriate, health financing, and workforce development;
• Engage local stakeholders by continuing to involve the Ministries of Health at the local, state, and national
 level; incorporating ASHA workers and auxiliary nurses into the research team (with approval of the MOH);
 and establishing a local Community Engagement Board comprising lay community members to provide local
 perspective on research outcomes of most benefit to participants, support dissemination of research findings,
 and promote translation of research evidence into practice;
• Expand research capacity and catchment areas within Karnataka, as well as to other states in India –
 specifically Maharashtra, Rajasthan, and Odisha – resulting in greater generalizability of findings to all regions
 and populations of the country and other low resource settings globally;
• Conduct GN approved common protocols with high recruitment and retention rates encompassing a
 range of study designs (e.g., RCTs, formative, translational, mixed methods, observational, and
 implementation research) initiated by GN investigators, as well as those proposed by outside investigators;
• Apply the guiding principles of NICHD-supported multi-site clinical research which are: 1) Enhance rigor
 and reproducibility, 2) Promote greater availability of multisite clinical trial infrastructure to support trials from a
 wider range of investigators, 3) Facilitate data sharing and access to biospecimens, 4) Facilitate greater
 involvement of diverse populations in multisite clinical trials;
• Disseminate research findings with the goal of influencing health policy and system changes and to scale
 up evidence-based interventions to promote meaningful and sustainable health improvements.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10897219
- **Project number:** 5UG1HD076457-12
- **Recipient organization:** THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** RICHARD J DERMAN
- **Activity code:** UG1 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $601,958
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2013-07-01 → 2030-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10897219

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10897219, TJU-JNMC Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research Unit (5UG1HD076457-12). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10897219. Licensed CC0.

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