Smith Child Health Catalyst
Smith Child Health Catalyst is a service core, leading innovation at the intersection of pediatric research and child health. We are dedicated to improving the wellbeing of children and their families by partnering with academic, healthcare, community and industry clients. Together, we leverage mixed methods and data-driven strategies to discover answers to pressing questions and catalyze influential change. Centering equity in our mission, we strive to ensure our findings authentically represent the views of communities affected by the topics we seek to understand.
Our multidisciplinary team consists of experienced faculty and research professionals from Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Our expertise includes human-centered design, user experience, social science, community engaged research, implementation science, and program evaluation. We engage with clients across all stages of work, from co-development of proposals through the dissemination of findings.
If you are looking to begin or enhance your research or evaluation efforts with the Catalyst team, please complete the form below.
For questions or more information, contact Catalyst@luriechildrens.org
We ask that clients seeking to include Catalyst services in a grant proposal submit a request form at least two weeks in advance of any submission deadlines. Internal investigators must account for the 10-day grant processing window required by Lurie Children's OSP. If you are developing a submission for a Special Funding Opportunity with a short turn-around, please feel free to reach out and we will do our best to accommodate a quicker timeframe.
Type of Requests (Three Levels of Engagement)
- Consultation: Request for a 30- to 60-minute consultation with a Catalyst staff member. This free service can include learning more about our services or brainstorming to clarify your needs.
- Service provision: Request to utilize Catalyst services or Catalyst staff/expertise to complete project activities.
- Team science: Request to include Catalyst faculty and/or staff on a project at the grant proposal or planning stage.
Type of Services
Consultations, service provisions, and collaboration/team science requests are available for the following services:
- Program evaluation
- Scientific and evaluation contributions to proposal development
- Developing survey, interview, and focus group questions and protocols
- Use of the Voices of Child Health in Chicago Parent Panel (VOCHIC)
- Patient, family, and community-engaged research
- Research in the primary care community practice setting
- Identifying, recruiting, engaging, and retaining participants
- Data collection (survey, needs assessment, interviews, focus groups)
- Quantitative and qualitative analysis
- Dissemination of results
- And so much more
Service Bundles and Rates
Catalyst services are grouped into five separate bundles and rates. View details here.
