Friends of NICHD Coalition Membership List
Celebrating 62 years of research on all stages of human development to better understand and improve the health of children, adults, families and communities.
For more information on the Friends of NICHD, or to join the Friends, please contact Krysta Jones, 2025 Chair of the Friends via email at knjones@apa.org.
Standing member organizations of the Friends of NICHD Committee include:
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- American Psychological Association
- Association of University Centers on Disabilities
- Consortium of Social Science Associations
- March of Dimes
- Population Association of America/Association of Population Centers
- Society for Research in Child Development
Rotating Members
Rotating member organizations of the Executive Committee serve for two-year teams and currently include:
- American Urological Association
- Cribs for Kids
- Federation of Associations in Brain and Behavioral Sciences
- Spina Bifida Association
Coalition Members
- AcademyHealth
- Advocates for Youth
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists
- American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
- American Anthropological Association
- American Association of University Affiliated Programs
- American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- American Chemistry Council
- American College of Medical Genetics
- American College of Nurse Midwives
- American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
- American Educational Research Association
- American Federation for Medical Research
- American Kidney Fund
- American Medical Student Association
- American Nurses Association
- American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association
- American Pediatric Society
- American Pediatric Society & Society for Pediatric Research
- American Physical Therapy Association
- American Psychiatric Association
- American Public Health Association
- American Society of Bone and Mineral Research
- American Society for Cell Biology
- American Society for Clinical Nutrition
- American Society for Microbiology
- American Society for Nutritional Sciences
- American Society for Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition
- American Society for Reproductive Immunology
- American Society for Reproductive Medicine
- American Society of Pediatric Nephrology
- American Sociological Association
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- American Urogynecologic Society
- Amputee Coalition of America
- Association for Human Genetics
- Association of Academic Physiatrists
- Association of American Medical Colleges
- Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs
- Association of Medical School Pediatric Department Chairs
- Association of Population Centers
- Association for Psychological Science
- Association of Reproductive Health Professionals
- Association of SIDS & Infant Mortality Programs
- Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, & Neonatal Nurses
- Autism Coalition
- Autism Society of America
- Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
- Cerebral Palsy International Research Foundation
- Child Welfare League of America
- Children’s Defense Fund
- CJ Foundation for SIDS
- Coalition for American Trauma Care
- Consortium of Family Organizations
- Council for Exceptional Children
- Cribs for Kids
- Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
- Epilepsy Foundation
- Endocrine Society
- Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
- Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- First Candle/SIDS Alliance
- FRAXA Research Foundation
- Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth
- Global Down Syndrome Foundation
- Hydrocephalus Association
- Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research
- International Rett Syndrome Association
- Jeffrey Modell Foundation
- Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation
- Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International
- Kids TLC
- Learning Disabilities Association of America
- Mental Health America
- Muscular Dystrophy Association
- National Alliance for Autism Research
- National Association of Children’s Hospitals
- National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
- National Association of Social Workers
- National Black Child Development Institute
- National Center for Learning Disabilities
- National Council on Family Relations
- National Down Syndrome Society
- National Down Syndrome Congress
- National Easter Seal Society
- National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association
- National Fragile X Foundation
- National Osteoporosis Foundation
- National Partnership for Women and Families
- National Pediatric and Family HIV Resource Center
- National Safe Kids Campaign
- National SIDS and Infant Death Project IMPACT
- National Women’s Health Network
- National Women’s Law Center
- Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) Society
- Nemours, Inc.
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation
- Pediatrix Medical Group
- Physicians for Reproductive Health
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America
- Population Resource Center
- Preeclampsia Foundation
- Premature Ovarian Failure Support Group
- Resolve, Inc.
- Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research
- Society for Gynecologic Investigation
- Society for Gynecologic Oncologists
- Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine
- Society for Neuroscience
- Society for Pediatric Research
- Society for Research on Adolescence
- Society for Research on Women’s Health
- Society for Women’s Health Research
- Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
- Society for the Study of Reproduction
- Society of Behavioral Medicine
- Spina Bifida Association of America
- Teratology Society
- The Alan Guttmacher Institute
- The Alliance of Genetic Support Groups
- The Arc
- The Chromosome 18 Registry and Research Society
- The International Dyslexia Association
- The Pediatric Trauma Society
- Trisomy 18 Foundation
- UCSF Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health
- United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation