A 2024 awarded grant under the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Data for Action program, managed by AcademyHealth.
This project is funded under the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s research program, “Health Data for Action (HD4A),” which makes valuable data from unique data owners available to researchers to answer important research questions. The goal of the study is to improve maternal health outcomes during dual national maternal health and opioid crises, providing evidence on the impact of postpartum coverage extensions for birthing people with opioid use disorder. Using the New Jersey Integrated Population Health Data (iPHD), the study seeks to: 1) Identify trends in fatal and non-fatal opioid-related overdoses among pregnant and postpartum people with opioid use disorder in New Jersey; 2) Compare characteristics (e.g., age, race, US-born status, marital status, employment status, education, Adequacy of Prenatal Care Utilization Index, insurance status, evidence of homelessness, geography) of birthing people who have overdose events vs those who do not; and 3) Evaluate whether trends changed from the pre- to post-COVID era, given the de-facto Medicaid postpartum coverage extensions that began in March 2020. The applicants plan to use descriptive and simple regression analysis as well as difference-in-difference regressions to assess their study aims. Deliverables will include a project work plan and final narrative report. The researchers will also produce paper(s) suitable for publication and present findings at national research meetings and to other stakeholder audiences as appropriate, including policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels and other key stakeholders, as part of the deliverables for this grant.
Grant #81868
Grantee Organization: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Grantee Period: 06/15/24 – 6/14/26
Ellerie Weber is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences and Policy at the Icah... Read Bio