Stigma and alcohol use across women and their children
Official title: Associations between stigma and alcohol use among women and their offspring
Funded at Columbia University Health Sciences · NIH-11423727 · Data updated 2026-11-12
This project looks at how stigma around women’s drinking affects mothers and their children over time.
Quick facts
| Grant type | NIH-funded research |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Columbia University Health Sciences NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (New York, United States) |
| Project start | September 25, 2025 |
| Project end | August 31, 2028 |
| Funding year | 2026 |
| Award (this year) | $249,000 |
| NIH project number | 5R00AA031316-04 |
| Project ID | NIH-11423727 on NIH RePORTER |
Who could benefit from this research
✓Could help
Ideal candidates are women enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Study 2 cohorts and their offspring, across various life stages.
✕Less likely to help
Individuals not connected to the included cohorts or without alcohol-related health data may see limited direct benefit.
What this research studies
Researchers will study how social stigma related to women’s alcohol use influences health outcomes for women and their offspring, using long-term data from large cohort studies. The work will employ natural language processing to measure stigma changes over time and link these to patterns of alcohol use and health outcomes across generations. The goal is to identify when stigma is most harmful and what factors might reduce risk, with training to build expertise in stigma measurement and longitudinal analysis.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: Understanding stigma’s impact could inform interventions to reduce harm from alcohol use for women and their children.
How similar studies have gone: Previous work shows stigma can influence health behaviors, and intergenerational effects are plausible but require longitudinal evidence; this study adds a novel approach by linking NLP-based stigma measures to long-term cohort data.
Where this research is happening
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Columbia University Health Sciences
New York, United States Active
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Mcketta, Sarah Claibourne — Columbia University Health Sciences
- Study coordinator: Mcketta, Sarah Claibourne
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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.