Lawton Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies - College of Public Health

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The Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies mission is to promote and protect the health of pregnant women, their infants, and young children through research, education and service.

Research Programs

Central Hillsborough Healthy Start Project Evaluation
Community University Training Projects
Comparative Effectiveness Research on MCH Outcomes
Florida Covering Kids and Families Evaluation
Smoking and Birth Outcomes
Ingram Grant on Depression and Smoking
MCH Prevention Trials
Multi-level, multi-source MCH data linkages
Process Evaluation of the National Friendly Access^SM Program

Service Programs

Florida Covering Kids and Families
Florida Perinatal Quality Collaborative

Educational/Tech. Assistance Programs

Annual Lawton Chiles International Lecture on Maternal and Child Health in the Americas
Florida Covering Kids & Families Outreach Training
Refugee Health Care Utilization Project
Student Internship Opportunities

The Lawton Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies

USF College of Public Health is the parent organization for the Chiles Center. The department home for the Chiles Center is Community and Family Health.