# Fragile Families Summer Data Training Workshop Series 2021-2025

> **NIH NIH R25** · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · 2020 · $161,460

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
This proposal seeks funds for a series of five summer workshops that will train a diverse group of early-career
scholars on the use of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFS), a population-based, longitudinal,
NIH-funded birth cohort survey developed to further understanding of the social and behavioral factors
affecting the development of urban children. Compared with children born to married, college-educated
parents, children born to unmarried parents, who lack a college education, often referred to as “fragile
families,” are much more likely to grow up in poor, high crime and violent neighborhoods and to attend schools
with other poor children. Biomedical and population scientists have raised a multitude of questions about the
extent to which such environmental factors affect child and adolescent wellbeing, the extent to which they may
moderate the genetic predispositions of children and adolescents toward health or behavioral challenges, and
the mechanisms that govern any causal effects. The FFS has played an important role in addressing these
questions; however, much remains to be learned, and the collection of new contextual and genetic FFS data
stands to further advance the research literature. As such, the proposed workshops will each focus on a
thematic area relevant to the above-mentioned concerns and will discuss different aspects of the FFS data not
covered in prior training workshops, including adolescent sleep, health behavior relationships; cognitive
development; DNA methylation ; brain development; criminal justice involvement; and outcomes for children
when they are 22 years old. The proposed series of workshops will train a new generation of researchers from
a variety of disciplines in the social and biomedical sciences on the capabilities of the FFS data and will result
in the dissemination of the Fragile Families data, an improved understanding of the issues facing adolescents
and young adults in fragile families, and opportunities for mentorship and collaboration for a new generation of
social, behavioral, and biomedical scientists.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9937204
- **Project number:** 2R25HD074544-06
- **Recipient organization:** COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE
- **Principal Investigator:** IRWIN GARFINKEL
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $161,460
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 2013-02-07 → 2025-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9937204

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9937204, Fragile Families Summer Data Training Workshop Series 2021-2025 (2R25HD074544-06). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9937204. Licensed CC0.

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