The CCDC has always maintained a research agenda complementing the many training, networking and developmental activities, frequently in collaborative with UWI colleagues. A new focus on research has started, with an aim to develop research programmes in 3 main areas:

Macro-issues in Early Childhood Development

This area continues a large focus of the CCDC in recent years.

Children and Violence in the Caribbean

This will continue ongoing research in collaboration with colleagues at the Epidemiology Research Unit on the development of aggressive/ antisocial tendencies of children in Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean, and the effects of societal violence on children.

HIV/AIDS and Affected Children

This area of work started with aqualitative investigation in two adjacent communities in Montego Bay of current attitudes and practices within communities and institutions in relation to young children infected and/or affected by HIV/AIDS.