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Child & Adolescent Health

IHPI experts strive to enhance knowledge that can improve child and adolescent health through research that examines the quality, equity, delivery and costs of the care and services that the youngest and often most vulnerable need to thrive throughout their lives.
 

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Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center (CHEAR)

A multidisciplinary health services research unit, based in the Division of General Pediatrics, that brings together faculty from multiple pediatric subspecialty disciplines, other departments from the school of medicine and across the University of Michigan to address the most pressing child health issues of the day. 

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January 26, 2022
Better education needed about oral sex disease risk, poll of young people shows

Most teens and young adults underestimate sexually transmitted infection risk, and feel their generation needs better information.

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Tammy Chang
Tammy Chang, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.
Behavior change, adolescent health, and mobile technology applications
Lisa Prosser
Lisa Prosser, Ph.D., M.S.
Valuation of childhood interventions and prevention programs
Susan Woolford
Susan Woolford, M.D., M.P.H.
Adolescent weight management, health communications technology
Toby Lewis
Toby Lewis, M.D., M.P.H.
Childhood respiratory disease and community health
Emily Fredericks
Emily Fredericks, Ph.D.
Pediatric health services
Patricia Purcell
Patricia Purcell, M.D., M.P.H.
Clinical outcomes research for children with hearing loss
Samir Gadepalli
Samir Gadepalli, M.D., M.B.A.
Outcomes and disparities in pediatric healthcare and surgery
Naomi Laventhal
Naomi Laventhal, M.D., M.A.
Neonatal and pediatric clinical ethics and research ethics
Cheryl Moyer
Cheryl Moyer, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Maternal/newborn health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa