Discover the NICHD. NIH Publication No. 13-7976

This four-page document provides an overview of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), a health research agency within the federal government. NICHD is a part of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S Department of Health and Human Services. This brief report describes the mission of NICHD, its research and the impact of that research on improving health, how NICHD research is performed, and how NICHD supports health education and outreach.