About Us
Welcome to the Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health Education, Science and Practice at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Based in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health (PFRH), we are proud to be in our 66th year and one of 13 federally funded maternal and child health (MCH) graduate training programs in the U.S. Ongoing public health challenges which disproportionately impact MCH populations, particularly those disadvantaged by limited resources and poor health, reinforce the need for rigorous MCH training to address these challenges and improve the health of all women, children, and their families.
The Center’s goal is to promote the health and well-being of women, infants, children, adolescents and their families in the United States. Its purpose is to educate the next generation of leaders in MCH research, practice, and policy and advance MCH science, research, practice and policy through these leaders. Our 20 core MCH faculty are strongly committed to providing educational programs to enhance the capacity of the MCH field and workforce to address the needs of women and children through education, research, evaluation and professional practice.
PFRH also provides student opportunities through the Center for Adolescent Health (CAH), Center on Early Life Origins of Disease, the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), the Early Childhood Services Research Program and Home Visiting Applied Research Collaborative (HARC), and the Johns Hopkins Women’s, Infants and Children (WIC) Supplemental Feeding Program.