AAP Health Initiatives

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) manages a variety of prominent health initiatives.

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  Clinical Resources

  • Adolescent Sexual Health
  • Breastfeeding
  • Bright Futures
  • Center on Healthy Resilient Children
  • Child Abuse and Neglect
  • Congenital Heart Defects
  • Critical Congenital Heart Defects Screening (CCHD)
  • Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
  • Early Brain and Child Development
  • Early Childhood Screening
  • Epigenetics: Changing "Destinies"
  • Epilepsy
  • E-cigarettes
  • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Toolkit
  • Healthy Active Living for Families: Right From the Start program (HALF)
  • Helping Babies Survive
  • Hospice and Palliative Medicine: Resilience Curriculum
  • HPV Toolkit
  • Immunization
  • Infantile Hemangiomas
  • Infantile Spasms
  • LGBT Health and Wellness
  • Medical Home
  • Mental Health
  • NICU Verification
  • Obesity
  • National Center on Early Childhood Health and Wellness (NCECHW)
  • Oral Health
  • Pediatric Endocrinology Fact Sheets
  • Poverty and Child Health
  • PPE: Preparticipation Physical Evaluation
  • Program to Enhance the Health and Development of Infants and Children
  • The Resilience Project
  • Spina Bifida
  • Substance Use and Prevention
  • Substance Use Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth
  • Tobacco Control
  • Trauma Informed Care
  • Zika Virus
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  Community Programs

  • Community Access To Child Health
  • Community Pediatrics
  • Community Pediatrics Training
  • Healthy Tomorrows
  • iCan Research & Advocacy Summit
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  Immigrant Child Health

  • Immigrant Child Health Resources
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  Environmental Health

  • Climate Change
  • Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units
  • Lead Exposure and Lead Poisoning
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  Media

  • Media and Children
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  Prevention

  • 7 Great Achievements in Pediatric Research
  • Button Batteries
  • Child Abuse Prevention
  • Child Death Review and Prevention
  • Disaster Preparedness
  • Injury, Violence, and Poison Prevention
  • Physician Health & Wellness
  • Practicing Safety
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  Quality Improvement

  • Chapter Alliance for Quality Improvement
  • Health Information Technology
  • Quality Improvement Innovation Networks (QuIIN)
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  School & Child Care

  • Healthy Child Care America
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  Special Populations

  • Autism
  • Deployment and Military Medical Home
  • Foster Care
  • Fragile X
  • Native American Child Health