This project aims to build a multidisciplinary team and infrastructure to advance pediatric health services and policy research by integrating diverse clinical and administrative datasets across CHLA and USC. The initiative addresses fragmentation across disciplines and seeks to accelerate translation from data-driven insights to clinical practice and policy changes improving child health outcomes.
Specific Aims:
- To establish a collaborative framework linking clinicians, economists, epidemiologists, and data scientists to analyze pediatric health data and address key issues such as injury and substance use.
- To conduct a landscape analysis of pediatric trauma and substance use data and identify high-priority research gaps.
The team combines expertise in pediatric surgery, emergency medicine, health economics, health policy, and large-scale data analytics.
Team Building Activities include:
- One-day multidisciplinary retreat:
A structured, in-person summit bringing together investigators, analysts, and trainees to share expertise, align research goals, and identify knowledge gaps in pediatric health services and policy.
- Breakout and planning sessions: Small-group sessions to develop pilot project ideas, define timelines for protocol development, and outline future grant submissions and research outputs.
- Wellness and team-building activity: An activity designed to strengthen collaboration, foster relationships across teams, and support sustained interdisciplinary engagement.