Christopher Forrest is the Mary D. Ames Professor of Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His academic focus is on pediatric population sciences, transforming children’s health, and innovations in healthcare delivery. He is leading several large, multi-institutional research efforts that include development and application of child-reported health status measures, child health services research, and cross-national comparisons of healthcare.