About

CPOP was established in 2005 as a Core Center of the original Child Health Initiative (CHI) in the Department of Pediatrics, with the goal of providing analytic and health services support and training across the department and the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. CPOP also seeks to provide a strong foundation for the development of a nationally recognized child health services and policy research program. Paul H. Wise, MD, MPH, the Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and Society, was recruited to Stanford and served as the Founding Director of CPOP. In July 2014, C. Jason Wang, MD, PhD, was appointed new Director of CPOP.

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Leading the way in child health policy, innovation and systems performance across the life course continuum

• Conducting innovative research to address critical, emerging challenges in children health, particularly in vulnerable and marginalized populations. 

• Elevating public policy with preeminent research to improve human capacity across the life course

• Fostering collaborative cross disciplinary engagement in global health initiatives and emerging technologies in Silicon Valley

Support healthcare value (outcomes/cost) across the life course

• Measure clinical outcomes and healthcare costs to improve value for the patient at the medical condition level
• Understand and optimize health linkages across the full cycle of care by shifting attention of care upstream, towards prevention  and early diagnosis at the individual and population levels
• Document health disparities in patient value among different patient populations

Drive health innovation

 Understand patient and provider incentives

 Rethink healthcare delivery innovation models both locally and across geographic areas

 Apply mobile health technology to drive health behavioral change, communications, and care coordination

Enhance Policy Impact

• Translate research into policy, and link policy levers to research agenda
• Develop quarterly policy briefs on important health policy issues, particularly for mothers and children
• Apply multimedia and social network strategies in disseminating research findings

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