Origination of the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health – In 2007, Matt Davis, M.D., M.A.P.P., and his team in the CHEAR Unit began the National Poll on Children’s Health as a way to bring the public voice into the national dialogue about child health and health policy in the United States.

Through a unique combination of public-oriented monthly Reports released online in lay language, and over two dozen peer-reviewed scientific publications as well, the National Poll on Children’s Health has contributed a wide variety of public perspectives to national discussions and informed reports from the Institute of Medicine, and has also served as a unique shared research platform through which multiple UM faculty have accessed national household samples in which to investigate their research questions.