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	U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration HRSA NEWS ROOM http://newsroom.hrsa.gov

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

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HRSA Grants Support Education of Maternal and Child Health Grad Students

HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded more than $4.5 million to 24 universities and teaching hospitals to support graduate-level students training for careers in maternal and pediatric health care.

The leadership grants are targeted at the next generation of supervisory clinicians and rising administrators in five critical disciplines: nursing, nutrition, communication disorders, social work and developmental behavioral pediatrics.

“The time to support maternal and pediatric specialties is right now,” said Dr. Elizabeth Duke, HRSA administrator. “These grants help build the capacity, expertise and administrative competencies that these disciplines demand.”

For decades, HRSA has overseen a broad array of grant programs aimed at ensuring the integrity and capacity of the public health system. The grants announced today seek to promote the training of critical-need specialists and health care administrators through aid programs to universities and other teaching institutions.

The following institutions received HRSA grants in support of maternal and pediatric graduate students:

Training Program for Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics

Organization	City	State	Amount
University of Arkansas for Medical Science	Little Rock	Ark.	$111,143
Stanford University	Palo Alto	Calif.	$142,467
Yale University	New Haven	Conn.	$192,467
Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard	Boston	Mass.	$192,467
Boston Medical Center	Boston	Mass.	$192,467
Montefiore Medical Center	Bronx	N.Y.	$192,467
Case Western Reserve University	Cleveland	Ohio	$192,467
University of Oklahoma Health Science Center	Oklahoma City	Okla.	$142,467
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Pa.	$221,943
Rhode Island Hospital	Providence	R.I.	$142,467
TOTAL:			$1,722,822

Leadership Education in Maternal and Child Health Nutrition

Organization	City	State	Amount
University of Alabama at Birmingham	Birmingham	Ala.	$173,090
University of California	Los Angeles	Calif.	$227,509
Indiana University, School of Medicine	Indianapolis	Ind.	$173,090
University of Minnesota	Minneapolis	Minn.	$173,447
University of Tennessee	Knoxville	Tenn.	$173,090
Baylor College of Medicine	Houston	Texas	$161,574
TOTAL:			$1,081,800

Leadership Education in MCH Nursing

Organization	City	State	Amount
University of Alabama at Birmingham	Birmingham	Ala.	$176,855
University of California, San Francisco	San Francisco	Calif.	$176,855
University of Colorado HSC	Denver	Colo.	$176,855
University of Minnesota-Adolescent Health	Minneapolis	Minn.	$176,855
University of Minnesota-CSHCN	Minneapolis	Minn.	$196,506
TOTAL:			$903,926

Leadership Training in Social Work

Organization	City	State	Amount
University of Maryland, School of Social Work	Baltimore	Md.	$140,407
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill	N.C.	$137,319
University of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	Pa.	$136,328
TOTAL:			$414,054

Training Program for Pediatric Communication Disorders

Organization	City	State	Amount
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill	N.C.	$124,380
Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Nashville	Tenn.	$142,467
Utah State University	Logan	Utah	$132,642
TOTAL:			$399,489

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), part of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable. Under a 70-year-old congressional mandate, HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau works to safeguard the health of the nation's women, children and families. For more information about HRSA and its programs, visit www.hrsa.gov.