About

Founded in 1998, the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research (CHEAR) Center is the oldest pediatric health services research center in the U.S. Since its founding, CHEAR has been the home to faculty from a broad variety of backgrounds, including general pediatricians, pediatric subspecialists, economists, epidemiologists, and research scientists. CHEAR has a longstanding history of funding from federal agencies (NIH, AHRQ, CDC, PCORI), foundations, state government, and philanthropy, and has trained some of the leading pediatric health services researchers in the country. The CHEAR Center is located within the Department of Pediatrics of the University of Michigan Medical School.