The University of Idaho was awarded a $200,000 NIH COBRE (Centers for Biomedical Research Excellence) Supplemental, funded from the National Institutes for Nursing Research (NINR). This one year project will be focus on developing spatiotemporal modeling techniques to explore maternal health, with a focus on underserved rural communities in Idaho. The project is lead by Erich Seamon, with co-principal investigators Helen Brown (University of Idaho) and Dr. Felix Liao (University of Idaho). This project will partner with a number of agencies around the state of Idaho, including Idaho’s Department of Health and Welfare (IDHW).