Feb 28, 2020
Supporting Caregivers' Critical Role in Treating Eating Disorders
For parents, having a sick child is always difficult. We as medical and psychological professionals want nothing more than for these children to...
Feb 25, 2020
Pediatricians’ Answer to the Vaping Epidemic? Prevention.
Pediatricians fill a unique role in a teen’s life. Their personal relationships with patients and parents allows them to deliver reliable advice...
Feb 18, 2020
Closing the Gap: Creating More Equity in Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder
I recently read a new study in Autism Research that examined data collected through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and...
Feb 11, 2020
Improving Health Care One Community at a Time
Editor’s note: This is part of our social determinants of health blog post series, which features content from PolicyLab experts and guest...
Feb 04, 2020
How Immigrant Status is a Determinant of Health for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders
Editor’s note: This is part of our social determinants of health blog post series, which features content from PolicyLab experts and guest...
Jan 28, 2020
New Vaping and Tobacco Laws…and What’s Next in 200 Words
Research shows the vast majority of adult smokers started smoking before turning 21, and most actually started before age 18. So it came as no...
Jan 21, 2020
From Screen Time to Smoking: Preventing Unhealthy Youth Behaviors
Unhealthy behaviors like poor diet, physical inactivity, and smoking put children at risk for developing heart disease, diabetes and cancer later...
Jan 16, 2020
Sexual Assault, Behavioral Health & Emergency Medicine: 3 Perspectives on New Research
Nearly 2 million adolescents in the United States have been sexually abused, and each year thousands of children and adolescents are the victims...
Jan 15, 2020
Announcing Awardees for the Winter 2020 CPCE and PolicyLab Pilot Grant Program
At PolicyLab, we are committed to supporting our incredible investigators as they launch exciting careers as academicians, ask new and important...
Jan 09, 2020
Addressing the Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in 200 Words
In December, I had the privilege of joining the Congressional Black Caucus Emergency Taskforce on Black Youth Suicide and Mental Healthin...
Jan 08, 2020
Achieving Equity in Birth Outcomes: We Are Stronger Together
At PolicyLab, we understand that partnerships are key in ensuring our research contributes meaningful information and solutions to address...
Dec 30, 2019
Our Top 5 Blog Posts of 2019
After another busy and exciting year at PolicyLab, we’re taking time to reflect back on 2019 by highlighting our most-read blog posts of the year...