### Pediatric Ongoing Projects

- [ Research Groups](#research-groups)
 
  

 ## Research Groups

 

 ### BOS Collaborative/PLUS Pediatric Housing Assistance

A $5 million philanthropic investment to establish neighborhood-based training strategies for 1,100 residents of color, and fund 250 new and preserved affordable housing units in historically underinvested Boston neighborhoods, including Black and Latinx communities.

  ### Boston Birth Cohort

Initiated in 1998 is a large-scale molecular epidemiological study funded by the National Institute of Health, with a particular focus on environment factors, genetic variants, epigenomic alterations, and their interactions in adverse reproductive outcomes, food allergy and related conditions, and obesity and metabolic syndrome in children.

  ### CATALYST

A program helps teens and young adults who use alcohol or drugs.

[Learn more about CATALYST](https://www.bmc.org/catalyst-clinic)

  ### CHEER

A world class center for maternal child health advocacy, training, and research.

[Learn more about CHEER](https://cheerequity.org/)

  ### Children's Health Watch

Formerly known as the Children’s Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program, monitors the impact of economic conditions and public policies on the health and well-being of very young children.

[Learn more about Children's Health Watch](https://www.bmc.org/childrens-healthwatch)

  ### Project SOLVE

Aims to mitigate the impact of mental illness on vulnerable families by developing, testing, and disseminating strategies through novel care delivery systems.

[Learn more about Project SOLVE](http://www.bmc.org/pediatrics/research/ongoing-projects)

  ### R1/RDHRS Telehealth Team

Develop and implement a model for disaster telehealth services that provide rapid, temporary, on-demand access to clinical specialists across jurisdictions to support regional disaster health response in the United States.

  ### StreetCred

An innovation hub that envisions nurturing healthy, thriving children and families by leveraging trust in and access to health care to increase economic inclusion and rectify structural racism.

[Learn more about StreetCred](https://www.bmc.org/streetcred)

  ### Vital Village

A network of residents and organizations committed to maximizing child, family and community well-being.

[Learn more about Vital Village](https://www.vitalvillage.org/)