CSDE Affiliate Maria Bleil (Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing) has been awarded an NIH grant “Improving health among disadvantaged girls to slow pubertal onset and reduce long-term health risks”, which tests whether positive health behavior change among prepubertal girls may lesson risk for earlier pubertal onset and associated cardiometabolic outcomes. Dr. Bleil has also been awarded, along with Dr. Rui Li (PI), an NIH grant “Understanding the role of early life social determinants and sex-specific pubertal pathways in the development of adolescent chronic pain”, which focuses on puberty in relation to chronic pain. Congratulations Dr. Bleil!