The Maternal and Child Health (MCH) unit is directed by Dr. Nancy Wolff and Carissa Greco Dougherty. The MCH unit is currently contracted by several state health departments to manage maternal and child risk and health data. The MCH unit staff are responsible for training and supervising project staff, overseeing data collection efforts, monitoring and calculating response rates, assuring full compliance with human subjects and privacy protocols, ensuring data quality, and interacting with clients.

The BCSR has experience collecting survey data as part of nationwide surveillance systems. Information collected by BCSR has been used for planning and assessing perinatal health programs.

The Maternal and Child Health unit of the BCSR, in operation since 2001, implements all phases of data collection, including mailings, web-based programming and applications, telephone interviewing, and data entry and reporting, IRB certification, and interviewer training.

The Maternal and Child Health Unit has bilingual staff members who are able to translate and review project materials, training materials, and documents for state agencies and health departments. The BCSR team has an established track record of meeting or exceeding response rate targets. They also ensure that the highest quality of data is collected through their monitoring and data verification protocols.

The MCH unit provides the following services: developing and designing project protocols and evaluations, survey questionnaires, and recruitment materials; translating materials from English to Spanish and Mandarin; programming questionnaires into Qualtrics and creating databases for data collection efforts; and analyzing data and writing reports.