The Child Policy Research Center, part of the Division of Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness, was created in 1999 and develops, translates and communicates evidence to measurably improve child health and well-being and the quality of health care for children. Our partners include community, local, state and national policy makers, program managers and advocates. The Center addresses the most urgent challenges facing children and families.
The CPRC is made up of multi-disciplinary faculty and staff with expertise in quantitative and qualitative methods. We are home to a growing number of secondary data sets useful in the conduct of policy relevant research, including administrative data as well as local, state and national survey data. Center faculty serve as core faculty in the newly formed Quality Scholars Program led by the Center for Health Care Quality and the federally funded Center for Education and Therapeutics (CERT). The center hosts post-doctoral fellows, residents, graduate and undergraduate students interested in health policy and health services research for experiences from weeks to years.
About the Center
The Child Policy Research Center (CPRC) serves as an important liaison between policymakers and health services researchers. The CPRC provides data analysis and interpretation to community leaders and policy makers at the local, state and national levels interested in the physical, emotional and social well-being of children. Center themes include:
- Population child health, including perinatal outcomes, infant mortality and childhood obesity
- Health insurance and access, in particular Medicaid and SCHIP
- Health system performance and quality, including health information technology
Additionally, the CPRC is a focal point for collaborations among those who are doing child policy-relevant research, and provides services for research support such as:
- population-based research on child well being and disparities
- demographic studies
- community-based participatory research, needs assessments and program evaluation
- policy analysis
- database management-linking-interpretation-reporting
