Professor of health, society, and behavior, Tim Bruckner, PhD, was awarded an NIH grant to study the link between supplemental income program payments and child health outcomes. Bruckner is an expert on perinatal health as well as mental and behavioral health. The nearly $450,000 grant builds on and leverages data collected via the National Institute of Child Health and Development-funded Baby’s First Years (BFY) study initiated in 2018 to assess the impact of poverty reduction on family life and infant and toddlers’ cognitive, emotional, and brain development.
“Our work is focused on remedying large, widespread, and robust income-based disparities in child health in the U.S.,” says Bruckner, who is also the co-director of the UCI Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy. “We aim to discover whether low-income parents who are partially relieved of income constraints move to childhood opportunity neighborhoods at a sensitive period of their child’s development.”
Funding for Bruckner’s work runs from fall 2022 through August 2024. Through his research projects, Bruckner aims to inform public health practice and health policy.
