Life Course Translational Research Network

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Life Course Translational Research Network

Call for Applications: 2026-28 LCT-RN Scholars Program

We are recruiting for the 2026-28 LCT-RN Scholars program.

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Life Course History: Six Interviews from MCH Leaders from 2011

In 2011, our Life Course Research Network conducted a series of interviews with national and international experts.

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Introducing our 2024-25 LCT-RN Scholars

Meet our 2024-2025 cohort of LCT-RN Scholars.

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Implications of Preterm Birth for Health and Well Being over the Life Course

New LCT-RN research considers the life-course implications of preterm birth on physical, mental and behavioral health, functional abilities and wellbeing.

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Call for Applications: 2024-25 LCT-RN Scholars Program

We are recruiting for the 2024-2025 Life Course Translational Research Scholars program.

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Introducing the Life Course Translational Research Network (LCT-RN)

The Life Course Intervention Research Network (LCIRN) is now the Life Course Translational Research Network (LCT-RN)

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Working Together to Improve Life Course Health

Finding new ways to work together means exploring new approaches to working across disciplines.

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Intervention spotlight: INSPIRE

INSPIRE is a digital game-based narrative environment developed at UCSF in collaboration with North Carolina State University.

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LCIRN Co-Hosts 2022 INRICH Workshop

We co-hosted the 13th Annual Workshop of the International Network for Research into Inequalities in Child Health (INRICH).

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Intergenerational Migrant Health Interventions

Migrants experience significant changes in their social and cultural environments, some of which pose challenges to their health trajectories.

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Upstream Interventions

We move interventions upstream, meaning that they either prevent the development of health challenges, or address and reverse them as soon as they occur.

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Accelerating Upstream Together

Accelerate means to work faster to improve MCH outcomes and eliminate disparities. At the LCIRN we are approaching this in three ways.

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Intervention Spotlight: Family Foundations + Financial Coaching

Mark Feinberg gave us an update on his new study which aims to combine the Family Foundations with a financial coaching intervention.

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Framework for Life Course Intervention Research

The Life Course Intervention Research Framework sets out a stepwise approach to intervention development.

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Family Matters

Families matter. In fact, family health is the most proximal social determinant of health we have.

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