# Achieving Maternal Equity and Transforming Health through Implementation Science and Training (AMETHIST@Penn)

> **NIH NIH U24** · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · 2024 · $2,743,930

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY (ABSTRACT)
Achieving Maternal Equity and Transforming Health through Implementation Science and Training
(AMETHIST@Penn)
The NIH Implementing a Maternal Health and PRegnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE) initiative
aims to reduce maternal mortality, improve pregnancy, perinatal and postpartum care, and to address the factors
that have led to severe disparities in outcomes for marginalized groups. The University of Pennsylvania (Penn)
proposes creating the Achieving Maternal Equity and Transforming Health through Implementation Science and
Training (AMETHIST@Penn) Implementation Science Hub to support IMPROVE Maternal Health Research
Centers of Excellence (CoEs) and other IMPROVE investigators, and to coordinate with NIH Staff Scientists,
Project Staff, and the Data Innovation and Coordinating Hub. AMETHIST@Penn will be led by MPIs Meghan
Lane Fall, MD, MSHP, and Rebecca Hamm, MD, MSCE, who bring complementary and necessary strengths in
implementation science (IS) and maternal health. Dr. Lane-Fall is Executive Director of the Penn Implementation
Science Center at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (PISCE@LDI). She is an internationally
recognized acute care IS expert with an independent IS research program. She has 8 years of experience as a
collaborator and consultant advising investigators on: selection of IS theories, models, and frameworks, including
those focused on equity; implementation mapping and strategy selection; implementation outcome selection;
data integration across multiple types and sources; and advanced analytic procedures to elucidate change
mechanisms. Dr. Hamm is a maternal fetal medicine specialist who has established herself nationally as a
researcher at the crossroads of obstetrics and IS. Together they will orchestrate the work of AMETHIST@Penn,
leading an interdisciplinary, interprofessional group of more than 45 scientists and community partners. The
AMETHIST@Penn Hub will comprise five Cores, each with two Co-Leads and 2-4 Core Investigators:
1) Administration, Leadership, and Evaluation; 2) Equity, Community and Stakeholder Engagement (with an
Equity Advisory and Oversight Board to advise and hold investigators accountable for incorporating equity into
their research); 3) Design, Methods, and Analysis (including a Consultant Panel with Methods, Equity, and
Clinical subpanels to meet the anticipated consultation and technical assistance needs of the CoEs); 4) Policy,
Dissemination, and Communication (with skills building in messaging and media training); and 5) Training and
Capacity Building (featuring an innovative academic-community partner training program and a comprehensive
mentored research experience for both new and established investigators). In addition to establishing and
administering the Hub, a research aim includes prospective mixed methods research on IS investigators,
community partners, and institutions to characterize predictors of project-based implementation su...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10901913
- **Project number:** 5U24HD113146-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
- **Principal Investigator:** Rebecca Feldman Hamm
- **Activity code:** U24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $2,743,930
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2023-08-15 → 2030-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10901913

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10901913, Achieving Maternal Equity and Transforming Health through Implementation Science and Training (AMETHIST@Penn) (5U24HD113146-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10901913. Licensed CC0.

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