Center for Children’s Healthy Lifestyles & Nutrition
About the Team
Our Center is a leader in fostering healthy lifestyles in the Kansas City community and around the world. We are dedicated to disseminating the latest knowledge regarding pediatric healthy lifestyles, from its biological origins to its societal impact.
The center focuses on major projects within our five key strategic focus areas: education, research, advocacy, community, and clinical. In 2021 our team secured over $57M in grant funding for this work across Children’s Mercy Kansas City and the University of Kansas Medical Center. Our 60 members bring our strategic goals into action every day through their rigorous, inclusive efforts of improving healthy lifestyles in all children and families.
Leaders
Ann Davis, PhD, MPH, ABPP, is Director of the CHLN. She is passionate about helping underserved children and families live healthier lives. Her focus is on conducting rigorous clinical trials of intervention research with underserved children and families.
Delwyn Catley, PhD, is the Associate Director of CHLN. His research focuses on health behavior change and motivation, particularly among marginalized and underserved groups.
- Research Areas
- Labs and Research Teams
- ACCESS Behavioral Health Lab
- Baby Health and Behavior Lab
- Baby Lab
- Bactrim Lung Failure Team
- Behavioral Pain Innovations Lab
- Center for Children’s Healthy Lifestyles & Nutrition
- Community Engaged Research Team
- Developmental and Behavioral Health Research Group
- Fridley Lab
- Laboratory of Immunogenomics
- Milkovich Lab
- Nadler Lab
- Pediatric Brain Cancer Research Team/Yadav Lab
- Ramsey Lab
- Sullivant Lab
- Varberg Lab
- Younger Lab
Director, Center for Children's Healthy Lifestyles & Nutrition; Ralph L Smith Professor of Pediatrics, University of Kansas School of Medicine; Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine; Professor of Pediatrics, University of Kansas School of Medicine
Associate Director, Center for Children's Healthy Lifestyles & Nutrition; Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine; Research Professor of Pediatrics, University of Kansas School of Medicine