Research Funding
2024-2025 Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program (ADARP), Dedicated Marijuana Account Grant (DMAc) Grant. Volatile organic compounds (VOC) metabolites in the urine of breastfed infants whose mothers frequently use cannabis. PI: Courtney L. Meehan; Co-I: Michelle McGuire. Project period 1/1/2024-6/30/2025
2023 – 2025 The National Institutes of Health. R21(1R21HD113959-01): Cannabis, Human Milk, and Multi-omics. PI: Courtney L. Meehan; Co-Is: Michelle McGuire, Thomas Metz, Mark McGuire, David Gang, Janet Williams, Celestina Barbosa Leiker, Elizabeth Holdsworth, Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson. Project Period: 12/08/2023-11/30/2025.
2021-2023 Maternal cannabis use during breastfeeding: Impact on infant urinary cannabinoid and cannabinoid metabolite concentrations. WSU Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Program, Dedicated Marijuana, Account (DMAc). PI: Courtney Meehan; Co-PIs Celestina Barbosa Leiker, David Gang, Michelle McGuire, Olivia Brooks.
2022 Cannabis use while breastfeeding and its impacts on infant cognitive and behavioral development. WSU Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Program. PI: Elizabeth Holdsworth Co-PI Courtney Meehan
2021-2022 Human Milk and Cannabinoids. WSU Health Equity Research Center. PI: Courtney Meehan; Co-PIs Celestina Barbosa Leiker, David Gang
2020 – 2021 RAPID: Collaborative Research: COVID-19, human milk and infant feeding. The National Science Foundation (IOS #2031715). PIs: CL Meehan, SM McGuire, M Martin, S Ley.
2016 – 2020 Childcare choices, microbiomes, and infant behavior – are they related? PIs – CL Meehan, Michelle McGuire, Maria Gartstein, and Edward Hagen. Health Equity Center (HERC).
2013 – 2019 INSPIRE Track 1: What is Normal Milk? Sociocultural, Evolutionary, Environmental, and Microbial Aspects of Human Milk Composition. The National Science Foundation (IOS #1344288). PI: M McGuire; Co-PIs: CL Meehan, JA Foster, S Moore, & L. Bode.
2017 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “Characterizing pathogen-specific antibodies in human milk.” PIs: Michelle McGuire, Mark McGuire, Courtney Meehan, Janet Williams, Juan Miguel Rodriguez, Xiaowu Liang, Gary Hermanson, Joe Campo, Arlo Randall, Krista Trappl.
2010-2017 CAREER: Cooperative Childcare and Exchange and Health among Central African Foragers and Farmers. The National Science Foundation (BCS #0955213). PI: CL Meehan.
2015 Infant temperament in Ethiopia. Initiative for Global Innovation Studies (IGIS), Washington State University. PIs: Courtney Meehan and Masha Gartstein
2009 Cooperative Childrearing among the Aka Tropical Forest Foragers in the Central African Republic. PI – Courtney L. Meehan. Office of Grant and Research Development – New Faculty Seed Grant.
2009 Cooperative Breeding and Maternal Time Allocation among the Aka Tropical Forest Foragers. The Leakey Foundation. P.I. Courtney L. Meehan.
Biocultural Anthropology Lab Members’ Grants and Fellowships
NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
2017 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship. Graduate Student – Avery Lane.
Grants
2022 Breastfeeding and cannabis. WSU Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Program Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Undergraduate Fellow: Jenna Schmidt .
2016 REG: Risk and Contraception Use. The National Science Foundation. PI – CL Meehan; Co-PI – Ph.D. Graduate Student Katherine Flores.
2013 DDRIG: The Effects of Stress on Onset of Cultural and Biological Middle Childhood among the Aka Foragers and the Ngandu Horticulturalists. The National Science Foundation. PI – Courtney L. Meehan, Co-PI – Courtney Helfrecht.
2012 REU Supplement: Postpartum Practices among the Aka Foragers of the Central African Republic. The National Science Foundation. PI – Courtney L. Meehan, Undergraduate Student – Courtney Malcom. Funded by BCS Cultural Anthropology and Biological Anthropology Programs.
2011 REG: Middle Childhood among the Aka Foragers of the Central African Republic. Supplement award to CAREER: Cooperative Childcare and Exchange and Health among Central African Foragers and Farmers. The National Science Foundation (BCS #0955213). (Graduate Student: Courtney Helfrecht.) Funded by BCS Cultural Anthropology and Developmental Learning Sciences Programs.