Team Grant : Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative (HeLTI) – India

The overall goals of the HeLTI initiative are outlined on the HeLTI webpage. The specific objectives of this funding opportunity are to:

• Through the Cohort Leadership Team:
• Develop a new linked DOHaD intervention-risk cohort composed of a representative sample of the target population in India, including recruitment of women both preconception and during pregnancy, their infants, as well as the fathers;
• Develop and conduct implementation, as well as evaluate implemented interventions for, and with, women and men preconception, during pregnancy and for infants during the postnatal period that are designed to substantially reduce the prevalence of NCDs in children and adolescents;
• Conduct evaluation and mechanistic studies that will explain the effect of the selected interventions on outcomes, including economic analyses of interventions;
• As part of the international HeLTI initiative, develop international multi-country, multi-disciplinary, cross-site collaborations that will provide a learning platform and training environment for new investigators and/or early career stage researchers, support data interoperability and improve harmonization practices
• Generate evidence that will guide policy and other decision-making in the near term through an assessment of retrospective interventions, and identify opportunities for future research and interventions as part of a longer-term strategy for NCD prevention;
• Improve health outcomes, particularly related to women and men’s health preconception, during pregnancy, early life and childhood by targeting early exposures and early development.