RESEARCH UNIQUELY FOCUSED ON THE HEALTH OF THE MILITARY CHILD
We seek to advance knowledge on the health of military connected children and to train future military physician-researchers. We are the only research group uniquely positioned and strategically focused on the health of the military child.
Today’s military connected child is unique in many ways. It has been engaged in the longest sustained conflict in the nation’s history resulting in increased deployment and injuries. The research group seeks to understand how the unique experiences growing up in this military environment impacts the health and welfare of today’s military children. Understanding the impact on children is crucial to active duty force readiness today as well as the future force readiness of our military as today’s military children are estimated to comprise up to 30% of our future military service-members.
