Research Funding

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.