# Federal Register #2026-19936

HRSA Supplemental Award for Longitudinal Health Data Linkage Research

**Buyer:** Department of Health and Human Services / Health Resources and Services Administration
**Posted:** September 30, 2026
**Identifier:** 2026-19936
**NAICS:** 541720

HRSA is providing supplemental funding to continue a longitudinal maternal and child health data-linkage research project.
- Government buyer: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Office of Epidemiology and Research, Division of Research.
- Award recipient: Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the current awardee for the Autism Longitudinal Data Project.
- Award: $587,191 in noncompetitive supplemental funding, supported by the HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) through the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund (PCORTF). This is the final funding year of the ASPE/PCORTF award.
- Work requested: Continue linking the Boston Birth Cohort and Pregnancy to Early Life longitudinal data system with community-level health databases, and conduct user testing.
  - The resulting datasets will support research on maternal, infant, and intergenerational health, combining biological, socioeconomic, environmental, behavioral, health services, and expense information.
- No products, product part numbers, or purchase quantities are specified; the attachment identifies one project service.

### Description

HRSA is providing supplemental funding to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), a current awardee for the Autism Longitudinal Data Project. The funding supports continued multi-agency data linkage and user testing to build data capacity, with this award identified as the final year of the ASPE/PCORTF award. The project links longitudinal cohort data to generate datasets spanning biological, socioeconomic, home and neighborhood environment, behavioral, health services, and expenses information. The non-competitive award is $587,191, and the stated project period is September 1, 2022, to August 31, 2027.

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