The National Adolescent Health Information Center (NAHIC) was established in 1993 with funding from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is based within the University of California, San Francisco’s Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and Institute for Health Policy Studies.
The overall goal of NAHIC is to improve the health of adolescents by serving as a national resource for adolescent health information and research, and to assure the integration, synthesis, coordination and dissemination of adolescent health-related information. Major activities include:
- Promoting collaborative relationships with MCHB, other federal and state agencies, professional and research organizations, private foundations and advocacy groups;
- Collecting, analyzing and disseminating information through short-term and long-term analyses of new policies affecting the adolescent population; and
- Providing technical assistance, consultation and continuing education to states, communities and providers in content areas that emphasize the needs of adolescents.
Throughout its activities, NAHIC emphasizes the needs of special populations who are more adversely affected by the current changes in the social environment of youth and their families.
For more information about NAHIC’s publications, please click here to download a 1-pager.
Updated: 07/26/04 at 01:22 AM
