Access to Health Care

• Health insurance impact on children’s quality of care and outcomes
• The burden of foster care and strategies to improve care    
• Access to preventive care for vulnerable children

Immunization

• Improving immunization status of children and adolescents
• New vaccines, adolescent vaccines, burden of preventable disease

Asthma

• Community- and school approaches to treat childhood asthma
• The health burden of children with asthma

Mental Health

• Detection and management of mental health problems in primary care
• The psychosocial consequences of childhood chronic illness
• Primary care assessments of mental status in foster care children

Nutrition and Obesity

• Primary care monitoring and management of child obesity risk
• Effective methods to increase breastfeeding rates

Adolescent risk behavior and prevention

• Studies of sexually transmitted diseases and substance abuse counseling and care for high risk adolescent youth
• Studies of prevention in adolescence

Tobacco use and reduction

• The effects of children’s passive exposure to cigarette smoke
• New roles for pediatricians in tobacco prevention/smoking cessation

Disparities

• Impact of public insurance in reducing racial/ethnic disparities
• Eliminating immunization disparities by region and race/ethnicity