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Medical College of Wisconsin Adolescent Medicine Research Programs

MAHP Grant Funding

The Milwaukee Adolescent Health Program (MAHP), the community portion of the Division of Adolescent Medicine, has been successful at obtaining both intramural and extramural funding to support clinical programming, community and provider education and research.

Funding sources for MAHP include:

Intramural
Advancing Healthier Wisconsin/Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program

Extramural
State of Wisconsin, Milwaukee County Juvenile Detention Center, Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services, Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault

MAHP Research Focus

  • Optimizing HIV and Syphilis Screening Rates in Youth
  • HIV Screening Practices Among Youth Tested for Other STIs in Primary Care Clinics
  • Advancing Equity for Adolescents in Maternal Child Health
  • Development of evidence-based guidelines, resources and education for providers treating adult survivors of sex trafficking
  • Improving identification and treatment of youth who have experienced sexual exploitation
  • Development of a Multi-Institutional Anti-Human Trafficking Healthcare Collaborative

Children’s Wisconsin and MCW Research Facilities and Programs

  • Medical College of Wisconsin Bioinformatics and Quantitative Child Health
    • Biostatistical and research support for study design, data management, and analyses of laboratory, animal and clinical studies
  • Children’s Wisconsin Pre-Grants Team to support successful grant preparation and submission
  • Children’s Wisconsin Translational Research Unit
    • Nursing care/support for IV starts, mixed meal tolerance testing and other dynamic testing, investigational drug administration, phlebotomy, sample processing, assistance with regulatory processes
  • Children’s Wisconsin Investigational Drug Services
  • MCW (CTSI) Adult Translational Research Unit
    • Available as needed to augment the Children’s Wisconsin Translational Research Unit services for measures such as bionutrition assessments, body composition (DXA), and cardiac and vascular function testing
  • Children’s Research Institute
    • State-of-the-art facility dedicated to the advancement of pediatric medical research where investigators have access to resources to support flow cytometry, histology, and genetics/genomics studies
    • Location of the Max McGee Diabetes Research Center
  • Center for Microbiome Research

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