Bill > S4147

This bill, the NIH IMPROVE Act, aims to continue funding the IMPROVE initiative through the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The key provisions of the bill are: 1. It directs the Director of the Institute to continue the IMPROVE initiative, which focuses on advancing research to reduce preventable causes of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity, reduce disparities in maternal health outcomes, and improve health for pregnant and postpartum individuals. 2. The initiative will use an integrated approach to understand the biological, behavioral, sociocultural, and structural factors that affect maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity, and will target health disparities by implementing and evaluating community-based interventions and identifying risk factors and underlying mechanisms associated with leading causes of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity. 3. The bill authorizes the appropriation of $53.4 million for each fiscal year from 2025 to 2031 to carry out the IMPROVE initiative.