Researchers to involve expectant moms in study of how opioids, other disruptors influence a child’s development
When Brittany Howell’s mother learned her daughter would be recruiting 300 pregnant women from across western Virginia and following them and their babies through age 10, she knew she had to start knitting.
Howell, an assistant professor at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, is leading part of a nationwide National Institutes of Health (NIH) study to address the opioid crisis, which has disproportionately affected rural communities in the commonwealth.