Child and Adolescent Health

A new survey finds more than two-thirds of U.S. adults support wealth-building investments, often known as baby bonds, for children born into low-income households.

Vaccines are the best protection against the highly contagious respiratory infection, which is currently seeing a resurgence in the U.S.

The abrupt decision to revise the federal childhood vaccine schedule and a breakdown of some of the infectious diseases that these immunizations prevent.

In October 2025, global health leaders, policymakers, youth advocates, and researchers convened in the nation’s capital for a two-day A Call to Action for Youth Mental Health. The event served as the U.S. launch of the report of the Second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing, an international effort to address the urgent and escalating challenges facing adolescents worldwide. Hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Mental Health, the convening followed the World Health Assembly launch in May 2025. 

The next steps will be to continue collaborating with partners across the U.S. and the world to support the actions responsive to youth needs, including, 

• Integrate youth lived experience expertise into mental health research, policy, and practice
• Apply data-driven accountability for equitable access to quality care
• Shape urban environments to promote youth mental health
• Understand gendered drivers and tailored responses to support youth mental health
• Catalyze intersectoral engagement for youth mental health: health, education, and social support systems 

India’s rare disease policy was hailed in 2021 as a turning point for patients, but funding problems have meant that some wait for medicines that never arrive.

These proven strategies help kids thrive and lay the foundation for healthy adulthoods.

Certain vaccines may reduce your chances of heart attack, stroke, or dementia—and they can save you money.

Chronic school absenteeism is a national crisis—for education and for public health.

Tracing the health impacts of chemical exposures decades after they happen is endlessly complex. Researchers are finding new ways to untangle the effects.

Data snapshots show hopeful—and worrying—trends in U.S. kids’ health.

Years of growth, development, and turbulence can forge healthy—or unhealthy—futures.

Discontinuing American hunger report dismantles a key measure of how American households are faring. 

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, is the United States’ largest anti-hunger program and helps an average of 41.7 million Americans per month.