Department of Maternal and Child Health

The goal of the Department of Maternal and Child Health is to improve the health of women and children through basic and applied research. Specialities include infant mortality, management of childbirth, physical growth and nutrition, adolescent health, wife and child abuse, reproductive health services in developing countries, and health care policy

Affiliation: Harvard School of Public Health
Web site: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Academics/mch/home/

Recent articles about Department of Maternal and Child Health

Child enrichment program still pays off after 15 years (Focus, March 24, 2006)
Strict enforcement of lead abatement policies saves communities money (School of Public Health, November 19, 2002)
Children from working-class families twice as likely to be depressed adults (Harvard Public Health Now, June 22, 2001)
First report in a decade quantifies healthcare for U.S. children (Harvard University Gazette, January 27, 2000)

Affiliated researchers cited in HarvardScience