Researchers, clinicians and child welfare advocates have long known that poverty can negatively influence child development. Kids in lower income families are more likely to experience food insecurity and their parents are less likely…

Primary Care Perspectives, a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia podcast, recently featured PolicyLab’s Kristen Feemster, MD, MPH, MSPH. In the episode, Dr. Feemster discusses the resurgence in highly infectious diseases like the…

PolicyLab director David Rubin, MD, MSCE, published a post on Health Affairs blog about the future of children's health insurance coverage. Dr. Rubin discusses how we got to historic rates of children's health insurance and…

Food insecurity, or the lack of reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable and nutritious food, affects nearly 15.8 million children across the U.S. PolicyLab researcher Deepak Palakshappa, MD, MSHP, wanted to understand…

PolicyLab research was cited in a Congressional Research Service report on psychotropic medication prescriptions for children in foster care. The report referenced a study by director David Rubin, MD, MSCE, that examined…

PolicyLab is hiring a resident post-doc fellow to support our work around behavioral health. This position would lead the implementation of an innovative parent-training program housed in a pediatric primary care setting and support…

Primary Care Perspectives, a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia podcast, recently featured PolicyLab’s Joanne Wood, MD, MSHP. In the episode, Dr. Wood discusses how primary care pediatricians can teach positive parenting skills to…

The transition from pediatric to adult health care systems can be daunting for anyone, but is especially challenging for young people with intellectual disabilities or other special health care needs. These youth and young adults face…

Implicit bias refers to unconscious attitudes that lie below the surface, but may influence our behaviors. In this PolicyLab Research at a Glance brief, Tiffani Johnson, MD, MSc, studied whether pediatric residents…

Primary Care Perspectives, a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia podcast, recently featured PolicyLab’s Brian Jenssen MD, MSHP. In the episode, Dr. Jenssen discusses how primary care pediatricians can help parents and caregivers quit…