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NORC to Support Five National Children's Study Centers
CHICAGO– NORC announced today that it has been selected to support data collection activities for five study centers as part of the National Children's Study, the largest and most comprehensive long-term study of children's health and development ever attempted in the United States. The study will track the health status of 100,000 children from before birth to age 21.
Sponsored by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and a consortium of other federal agencies, the National Children's Study (NCS) has the potential to support breakthrough research on the factors affecting child health, including genetics and a wide range of environmental influences. From its initiation and for decades to follow, the NCS will provide health researchers and practitioners with powerful resources for understanding the etiology of childhood illness and the possibilities for developing interventions to prevent them.
NORC has an important part in five of the 22 National Children’s Study Centers:
Greater Chicago National Children’s Study Center
University of Massachusetts
University of Pittsburgh
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
University of Minnesota
NORC at the University of Chicago, known since 1941 as the National Opinion Research Center, conducts high quality, social science research in the public interest. Learn more at www.norc.org.