About Us Dedication & Precision
The Institute for Child Health Policy at the University of Florida unites researchers and healthcare providers around common goals for improving the health of mothers, children and adolescents.
15:1 Output vs. Operations: on average, $15 million in additional external funding results from $1 million of ICHP’s budget.
$185 Million Research funding received since 2015
Award
Mkuu wins support to build expertise in cervical cancer interventions
A prestigious award of more than $850,000 from the National Cancer Institute will support Rahma Mkuu, PhD, as she builds her expertise in implementation science over the next five years while addressing cervical cancer screening disparities among women living with chronic conditions.
Health & Healthcare
The Institute for Child Health Policy brings together multidisciplinary faculty from the University of Florida to conduct innovative and rigorous science to promote maternal health and the health of children, adolescents, and young adults. We are dedicated to advancing health and healthcare through clinical and population-based research, alongside the training and development of the next generation of investigators.
The Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics in the College of Medicine serves as an important support infrastructure for the Institute for Child Health Policy and is the academic home for many of its faculty members.
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Health Research Innovation
Our affiliated faculty members have spent decades conducting pragmatic clinical trials that reduce health risks and transform health care delivery.
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Real World Data
We maintain one of the largest real-world medical data repositories for women and children.
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Translation to Practice
Our implementation science studies bridge the gap between research and practice, bringing evidence-based approaches to the clinical and community settings where families receive care.
We focus on mothers, children, adolescents, and their healthcare through collaborative, transdisciplinary research. ICHP provides independent, verifiable perspectives and voices of expertise that are useful to families, clinicians, payers, and other entities that need to make healthcare decisions based on evidence. The Institute provides a research community with broad resources and deep knowledge to improve maternal, child and adolescent health.
Strategic Priorities
AI & real-world data
ICHP continues to lead by advancing research and the use of real-world data. Aligned with UF’s strategic AI initiative, we are conducting innovative research using medical notes to more robustly identify health risks and design targeted interventions. We continue to expand our capabilities to conduct pragmatic clinical trials in a range of rural and urban settings. We also are expanding our data linkages to incorporate additional clinical and genetic information, combined with exposome data, to enhance the precision of cohort discovery for clinical trials and to better understand health outcomes across the lifespan.
