STAR Initiative directors lead over $36 million in funded research projects that examine risk and resilience spanning from the prenatal period through infancy, childhood, adolescence, and into adulthood.
- Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Parent Generation: Impact on Family Engagement and Program Efficacy of MIECHV Home Visiting
- Early Adversity and Cellular Aging in Mother Infant Dyads: Mitochondria, Telomeres, and Mental Health
- Electronic Cigarettes During Pregnancy: Impact on Fetal Development
- Enriching the Rhode Island Child Health Study
- Fetal Behavior, Brain & Stress Response: Ultrasound Markers of Maternal Smoking
- HPA & Neural Response to Peer Rejection: Biomarkers of Adolescent Depression Risk
- Impact of Flavors and Design Features on Patterns of Waterpipe Use and Toxicity in Pregnant Mothers
- Maternal depression during pregnancy: Novel brain and behavioral markers of risk in the fetus
- Maternal Smoking: HPA and Epigenetic Pathways to Infant Neurobehavioral Deficits
- Prenatal Marijuana: Impact on Infant Neurobehavior, Stress, & Epigenetic Mechanisms