About National Child Health Public Health
The National Child Health Public Health (CHPH) function provides leadership across many elements of child health. It has a core focus on integrated health for children by providing clinical leadership, expertise and support to other areas across the HSE, wider stakeholders and parents through the MyChild.ie information suite.
It provides strong support and input into Government strategy development, implementation and evaluation, through focusing on HSE actions and advocacy that can lead to improvements in the overall health of children and young people, particularly aimed at reducing inequities.
The National CHPH also leads or supports a range of health and wellbeing programmes designed to support children and/or adults in their caring roles.
A Vision for the Health and Wellbeing of Children and Young People in Ireland (PDF, size 288.1 KB, 20 pages)
HSE Child Health Public Health annual report 2023 (PDF, size 13.6 MB, 46 pages)
The National Healthy Childhood Programme
The National CHPH function provides the clinical leadership for the framework of the National Healthy Childhood Programme, the HSE’s universal health programme for all children to support them and their parents from birth, and the leadership for the population screening services within them.
Contact us
You can contact our team by emailing healthy.childhood@hse.ie
Last updated on 04/07/2024
