Research activities are an integral part of the activities of the faculty and trainees of the Division. The types of projects that are currently being conducted by the faculty range from bench research to the application of intervention programs.

Main Research Policy Centers

National Adolescent and Young Adult Information Center
The overall goal is to increase adolescents’ and young adults’ receipt of preventive services by strengthening the abilities of State Title V MCH Programs, and public health and clinical health professionals to serve adolescent and young adults, through efforts to improve health care access, quality, integration, advancing and sustaining opportunity for all, and accountability.

MCH Adolescent and Young Adult Health Research Network (AYAH-RN)
The major goals of this project are to develop and maintain a national agenda to translate developmental science into adolescent and young adult practice; promote multi-site, transdisciplinary scientific collaboration; and develop additional research capacity in the Adolescent and Young Adult field.