CARE 

IDHP Director Nicki Bush is one of the Principal Investigators of the CARE (Collaborative Approach to building Resilience in Everyone) Program, which seeks to explore the effects of resilience-promoting interventions on health outcomes in children from diverse, low-income California communities who have experienced early adversity.  

BLOOM

IDHP is currently supporting the research evaluation of BLOOM (Black Love Opportunities and Outcomes improvement in Medicine), a racially-concordant pediatric primary care clinic for Black Bay Area families at Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, whose goal is to promote equity in caregiver-child health outcomes.

MAMAS/SEED Study

The SEED (Stress, Eating, and Early Development) Study, directed by Dr. Bush, examines the effects of prenatal stress and maternal weight gain on offspring mental and physical health. SEED has enrolled 180 women, recruited from the MAMAS (Maternal Adiposity, Metabolism, and Stress) study, a clinical trial of a mindfulness-based group intervention that led to improvements women's mental and physical health during pregnancy.

ECHO PATHWAYS

The ECHO (Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes) PATHWAYS study aims to advance knowledge of pre- and post-natal environmental and social factors that influence child development. We are conducting a seven-year study of nearly 3000 mother-child pairs who previously enrolled in one of three existing pregnancy studies: CANDLE, GAPPS and TIDES. ECHO PATHWAYS is combining these existing studies into one large population and extending the duration of follow up through middle childhood and into adolescence. ECHO PATHWAYS is one consortium within the larger NIH ECHO Study, which coordinates data collection and research efforts across 70+ cohorts across the United States, representing over 64,000 children and families.

CTRP-Health

The UCSF CTRP (Child Trauma Research Program) develops, evaluates, and disseminates interventions for children aged zero to five who have experienced trauma, with the goal of strengthening the parent-child relationship and reestablishing developmental trajectories.The CTRP-Health study investigates the effects of clinical intervention on the biology of young children and caregivers who have experienced violence, trauma, and loss.