The Children's Health Fund is a rich source of information on a wide array of topics related to the health care needs of medically underserved children. The Fund engages in efforts as varied as descriptive analyses of health care needs and service provision, health services research, program evaluation, and development of health education materials. These educational, descriptive, research, and evaluation efforts help improve services, inform colleagues, and advocate for patients. Members of the CHF team disseminate findings to national professional meetings, issue-specific symposia and conferences, and peer-reviewed publications in the academic literature. By sharing and vetting work with academic, policy, and lay audiences, CHF contributes to the clinical and scientific discussion of child health and supports powerful advocacy messages on federal, state, and local levels.

Areas of Research

A general focus on designing, implementing, and evaluating high quality health services and health education with a specific focus on:

• Improving outcomes of comprehensive primary care-based asthma treatment
• Preventing childhood overweight and related health conditions
• Monitoring and improving the health and developmental status of homeless children
• Developing health education materials
• Providing prenatal care using a group model
• Improving the quality of HIV care
• Coordinating and improving the process of subspecialty referrals
• Implementing and improving an electronic health record
• Understanding the needs of children in disaster and emergency planning

Publication Links

Get a wealth of background from CHF fact sheets, publications, abstracts and conference presentations for medical groups such as the American Public Health Association, Pediatric Academic Societies, Academy Health, American Thoracic Society, Disaster Psychiatry Outreach and others.

To access many of our publications, browse by topic, below.