Taking research beyond the data. Moving education beyond the classroom.

RESEARCH: Our research spans many axes but the common thread is a focus on population health. Learn more about our work via our Divisions and Centers.

Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse

The Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse (CoRAL) division focuses on developing innovative interventions and generating new knowledge regarding the origins of chronic disease, obesity, and consequences through the lifecourse.

Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse

Health Policy and Insurance Research

The division of Health Policy and Insurance Research (HPI) research areas include understanding effects of high-cost medical care, pharmaceutical policies, health insurance innovations, personalized medicine, delivery system changes, behavioral interventions, and cost-quality trade-offs.

Health Policy and Insurance Research

Biostatistics

The Biostatistics division is the home for statistical consultation and research at the Institute. The group collaborates widely on causal inference, observational epidemiology, bioinformatics, microsimulation, statistical software and graphics, and general statistical applications.

Biostatistics

Child Health Research and Policy

The Child Health Research and Policy  (CHeRP) division leads population-based research in pediatrics. Its work in asthma, childhood infections, vaccines, and health policy has directly shaped national policy recommendations in these areas.

Division of Child Health Research and Policy

Therapeutics Research and Infectious Disease Epidemiology

The Therapeutics Research and Infectious Disease Epidemiology (TIDE) division assesses the safety and effectiveness of medical products, novel methods for illness surveillance, and control of both healthcare and community-acquired infections.

Therapeutics Research and Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Centers of Excellence

We are home to three Centers of Excellence. These centers’ primary purpose is to foster intellectual collaboration among faculty across Divisions that have shared research interests, and to promote the expertise of these individuals to the outside world.

Centers of Excellence
More than 25 Years of Innovation & Impact
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NEWS & EVENTS

Research Recap: December

February 8, 2023

An overview of December's studies published by Institute investigators and their collaborators spans a wide variety of topics, including:

Disparities in clinically indicated genetic testing; a new dataset for environmental health studies; assessing the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine; long COVID; readmissions rates in U.S. children’s hospitals; trends in labor unionization among health care workers

For all faculty publications, see our Publications page. For up-to-date media coverage and research findings, visit In the Media, and follow us on Twitter. To search for a subject matter expert, visit our Investigator Directory.

Research Recap: November

February 1, 2023

This overview covers studies published over the course of a month by Institute investigators and their collaborators spans a wide variety of topics, including:

Antibiotic treatment for sepsis; sexual violence reporting among student-athletes; research methods; medical product safety during pregnancy; the effect of trace elements on liver function in early pregnancy; longitudinal developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) research; associations of greenness, parks, and blue space with neurodegenerative disease hospitalizations among older us adults; associations of neighborhood opportunity and social vulnerability with trajectories of childhood body mass index and obesity among us children

For all faculty publications, see our Publications page. For up-to-date media coverage and research findings, visit In the Media, and follow us on Twitter. To search for a subject matter expert, visit our Investigator Directory.