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Strong Children's Research Center

Health Services Research Projects

Investigators • James R. Campbell, M.D., M.P.H. • Stephen R. Cook, M.D.* • Daniel J. DeMarle, Ph.D. • Jill Halterman, M.D., M.P.H.* • Neil E. Herendeen, M.D. • Cindy R. Howard, M.D., M.P.H. • Sandra H. Jee, M.D.,M.P.H.* • Jeffrey M. Kaczorowski, M.D. • Jonathan D. Klein, M.D., M.P.H. * • Cheryl Kodjo, M.D., M.P.H. • Kenneth M. McConnochie, M.D., M.P.H. • Cynthia M. Rand, M.D. • David M. Siegel, M.D., M.P.H. • Stanley J. Schaffer, M.D., M.S. • Laura P. Shone, M.S.W., Dr.PH.* • Peter G. Szilagyi, M.D., M.P.H.* • Susan M. Yussman, M.D., M.P.H. (* Denotes faculty who are accepting students in the SCRC Summer Program.)

Access to Health Care

• Health insurance impact on children’s quality of care and outcomes
• The burden of foster care and strategies to improve care    
• Access to preventive care for vulnerable children

Immunization

• Improving immunization status of children and adolescents
• New vaccines, adolescent vaccines, burden of preventable disease

Asthma

• Community- and school approaches to treat childhood asthma
• The health burden of children with asthma

Mental Health

• Detection and management of mental health problems in primary care
• The psychosocial consequences of childhood chronic illness
• Primary care assessments of mental status in foster care children

Nutrition and Obesity

• Primary care monitoring and management of child obesity risk
• Effective methods to increase breastfeeding rates

Adolescent risk behavior and prevention

• Studies of sexually transmitted diseases and substance abuse counseling and care for high risk adolescent youth
• Studies of prevention in adolescence

Tobacco use and reduction

• The effects of children’s passive exposure to cigarette smoke
• New roles for pediatricians in tobacco prevention/smoking cessation

Disparities

• Impact of public insurance in reducing racial/ethnic disparities
• Eliminating immunization disparities by region and race/ethnicity