# Florida Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Component

> **NIH ALLCDC U01** · FLORIDA STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH · 2020 · $87,982

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
The Florida Department of Health is submitting an application to the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention for funding in the amount of $120,524 for the first year of a five-year cooperative
agreement and $150,000 each year thereafter to conduct the Pregnancy Risk Assessment
Monitoring System (PRAMS). The Florida Department of Health and its state and local partners
continue to value and use the data collected by PRAMS to develop and evaluate policy to affect
change in supporting services to the women surveyed. Leticia Hernandez, MS, PhD, Maternal
and Child Health Epidemiologist will serve as the Principal Investigator and will provide scientific
and technical leadership as well as direction throughout the current grant funding period.
Florida is the third most populous state in the nation with approximately 20 million residents
living within 67 counties in 2015. The state is ethnically and racially diverse. The racial/ethnic
composition of Florida is approximately 78 percent white and 17 percent black with 24 percent
of the total population being of Hispanic origin. It ranks fourth nationally in annual live births with
22 percent of Florida’s total population less than 18 years of age and 27 percent between the
ages 18 and 39, according to 2015 population estimates.
The overall goals of the PRAMS program are: (1) to collect population-based data of high
scientific quality on topics relating to pregnancy and early infancy; (2) to conduct data analyses
in order to increase understanding of maternal behaviors and experiences during pregnancy
and early infancy, and their relationship to health outcomes; (3) to translate results from
analyses into useable information for planning and evaluation of public health programs and
policy; and (4) to build state capacity.
To address the four overarching goals of the project, Florida will conduct activities to improve its
overall annual weighted response rate by 2 percent each year. Previous analyses have shown
that more than half of live births in Florida are to mothers receiving Medicaid. Florida PRAMS
will continue to gain access to the state’s Medicaid system as a search engine to gather up-to-
date contact information to ensure increased delivery of the mail survey instrument to the
selected mothers. In addition, the Florida PRAMS will continue to test incentives that increase
the completion of the surveys and implement those found to be successful. Finally, Florida
PRAMS will continue to engage and collaborate with state and local partners and data users to
address state-specific needs.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9926836
- **Project number:** 5U01DP006200-05
- **Recipient organization:** FLORIDA STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
- **Principal Investigator:** Leticia E Hernandez
- **Activity code:** U01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** ALLCDC
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $87,982
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2016-05-01 → 2021-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9926836

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9926836, Florida Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Component (5U01DP006200-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9926836. Licensed CC0.

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