Women & Infants Hospital is one of the region’s largest and most prestigious research facilities in high-risk and normal obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics.
Women & Infants’ researchers have received grant funding from hundreds of agencies and foundations, including the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Genentech, Janssen, Tesaro, the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the Rhode Island Foundation, and the Society of Family Planning.
The Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute aims to improve the lives of children and their families in Rhode Island through cutting-edge research, clinical practice, public health efforts, and training for future child health leaders. Our longitudinal birth cohort study, known as the Hassenfeld Study, based at Women & Infants Hospital provides a framework for maternal and child health research across several important areas, including social determinants of health, gestational diabetes, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and more.
Women & Infants’ Institutional Review Board (IRB) is a committee established to review and approve research involving human subjects. The purpose of the IRB is to protect the rights and welfare of human research subjects and to ensure that all human subject research be conducted in accordance with federal, state, institutional, and ethical guidelines.
To access the IRB Meeting Dates and Deadlines, go to the IRBNet WIH Forms and Templates library.
The Kilguss Research Institute is home to the Center for Perinatal Biology (CPB). CPB started as an NIH-funded Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE). It is now a self-supported center doing advanced research on fetal development and reproductive medicine. CPB provides scientific and career mentorship to junior faculty within an environment that fosters creativity and transdisciplinary collaboration. CPB's cadre of renowned and emerging scientists is making important breakthroughs in improving the health of newborns and mothers.
All of our providers are also on staff at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
In addition to seeing patients, our physicians prioritize their research work. Not only are they the authors of numerous studies related to fertility, they have also played historic roles in the development of reproductive medicine, such as delivering the first baby conceived through donor embryo transplant. Many of our physicians also work across disciplines to develop useful tools based on their research, such as apps and medical devices.
