Atlanta African American maternal and child health cohort
Maintenance and Enhancement of the Atlanta African American Maternal-Child Cohort
Following African American mothers and their children from pregnancy through early childhood to learn how environmental and social factors affect health.
Quick facts
| Grant type | NIH-funded research |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Emory University NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Atlanta, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11092126 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
If you join, the team keeps and grows a long-term group of African American mothers and their children in Atlanta and stays in touch through pregnancy and early childhood. They collect health information, questionnaires about stress and living conditions, and biological samples like blood and microbiome swabs. The project links your health data and samples with neighborhood and exposure information to see what relates to outcomes such as preterm birth, growth, and development. Data and samples are maintained so other researchers can use them to speed up discoveries that matter to families like yours.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Pregnant African American women in the Atlanta area and their children who can provide health information, attend follow-up visits, and donate samples are ideal candidates.
Not a fit: People who are not pregnant, who do not have young children, who live far from Atlanta, or who cannot participate in long-term follow-up would not directly benefit from enrolling.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this work could reveal exposures and biological markers that help prevent or reduce pregnancy and early-childhood problems in African American families.
How similar studies have performed: Other pregnancy and birth cohorts have linked environmental and social exposures to child health, so this approach has precedent though a long-term, deeply phenotyped African American cohort is less common.
Where this research is happening
Atlanta, United States
- Emory University — Atlanta, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Dunlop, Anne Lang — Emory University
- Study coordinator: Dunlop, Anne Lang
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.