CA Child Health Research Coalition

 

UC BRAID-Child Health (BRAID-CH) has transitioned to a new statewide collaboration, the California Child Health Research Coalition. This effort expands upon BRAID-CH’s experience, skills and innovative investigator-initiated research projects.

 

Vision: The Coalition will build an innovative, collegial, and collaborative network of child health centers, hospitals, and clinics in an effort to support clinical research activities that will rapidly provide new therapies, medical devices, quality care, efficient healthcare delivery, and health prevention strategies to all the people in California and beyond.

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Background: Since 2013, BRAID-CH has sought to serve as a UC consortium focused on a group of pediatric diseases while building on the strengths of the existing UC BRAID structure. Some of BRAID-CH’s accomplishments:
 

• Received UC award to build and test EMR templates in representative pediatric research areas (Diabetes Nutrition, Chronic Disease)
   

• Funded and implemented two Child Health Catalytic Grant Awards, serving as a model for a national initiative to support multidisciplinary pediatric research
   

• Held the first UC wide Autism Summit in 2014 and received a UC award for a multisite Autism Research Pilot Study
   

• Developed partnership with the UC Fetal Consortium
   

The goal of the new Coalition is to incubate multisite research teams across California, focused broadly on gaps and barriers to optimal health for children in our region.

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