Through the years, the CHDS has worked with many distinguished scientists and continues to be resource for research conducted by individuals from many research institutions in the United States and abroad. Although we are unable to provide details of all of these projects in this space, we provide some examples that illustrate the breadth of possibilities.

In the beginning, the CHDS had a close collaboration with the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and many important research papers were prepared in collaboration with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. For example, CHDS data were the basis of classic studies of blood pressure and preeclampsia in pregnancy in collaboration with Dr. Ernest Page. View our publications list.

Currently, this relationship with UCSF School of medicine continues with a new project to plan analysis of how genetic and environmental factors interact to affect reproductive health. In this new project, Dr. Bernard Lo, an expert in the ethics of research, is helping to plan genetic studies that will meet the stringent criteria of consent and confidentiality protection. Dr. Susan Fischer [http://cc.ucsf.edu/people/fisher_susan.html] and Dr. Renee Rejo Perra [http://cc.ucsf.edu/people/reijo-pera_renee.html] are collaborating with CHDS Director Barbara Cohn to identify the unique and important contribution the CHDS can make in understanding human reproduction across generations.

CHDS has maintained a connection to the Kaiser Pernamente Division of Research where scientists are working on current and proposed new projects. In that work, Dr. Catherine Schaefer [http://www.dor.kaiser.org/staff/investigators/schaefer.shtml] has played a key leadership role in study design, data collection and interpretation.

Collaboration continues to expand to other institutions. Examples include ongoing studies with Columbia University in New York on Early Determinants of Adult Health led by Dr. Ezra Susser [http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/sph/epi/gcd/susser.html], and Harvard University where Dr. Jeffrey Duryea [http://splweb.bwh.harvard.edu:8000/pages/ppl/duryea/] is using CHDS data to develop an improved method to help clinicians read xrays that evaluate children who are not growing as they should.

A subset of the CHDS data, where personal or identifying information have been deleted, are available to biomedical researchers and can be ordered directly from the CHDS. Click here to find out how. A manual has been prepared to help scientists use this valuable resource.

Recent CHDS Collaborators (Partial):

Melissa Begg, ScD, Columbia University

Rhajiv Bhatia, MD, MPH, Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA.

Alan Brown, MD, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute

Stephen Buka, ScD, Harvard School of Public Health

Ana Diez Roux MD, University of Michigan

Jennifer David-Peck, PhD, Texas A&M

Jeffrey Duryea, PhD, Harvard University

Brenda Eskenazi, PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Pam Factor-Litvak, PhD, Columbia University

David Feldman, MD, Stanford University

Karen Ferran, PhD, University of California, San Diego

Matthew Gillman, MD, Harvard Medical School

Jill M. Goldstein, PhD, Harvard Medical School

Geoffrey Howe, PhD, Columbia University

Irva Hertz-Picciotto, PhD, University of California, Davis

William Lasely, PhD, Universtiy of California, Davis

L.H. Lumey, MD, PhD, Columbia University

Thomas Matte, MD, New York Academy of Medicine

Karin Michels, ScD, Harvard School of Public Health

Myrto Petreas, PhD, California Department of Health Services

Scott Puza, MD, University of California, Davis

Charles S. Rabkin, MD, National Cancer Institute

Janet Rich-Edwards, ScD, Harvard Medical School

Barbara E. Richardson, PhD, Texas A&M

Nader Rifai,, MD, Harvard Medical School

Cliff Rosen, MD, Maine Center for Osteoporosis Research

Catherine Schaefer, PhD, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research

Larry Seidman, PhD, Harvard Medical School

Nazerah Shaikh, MPH, California Department of Health Services

Pentii Siiteri, PhD, University of California San Francisco, School of Medicine

Frank Stanczyk, Ph.D, University of Southern California

Ezra Susser, MD, Columbia University

Mary Beth Terry, PhD, Columbia University

John L. Waddington PhD, DSc, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Elaine Waetjen, MD, University of California, Davis School of Medicine

Alice Whittemore, PhD, Stanford University

Gayle C. Windham, PhD, California Department of Health Services

Mary S. Wolff, PhD, Mt.Sinai School of Medicine