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May 30, 2018
Get to Know PolicyLab’s New Health Equity Strategy Director Emmy Stup
Emmy will not only be setting the organization’s strategic direction on our health equity research, but working with each of our four…
May 25, 2018
Pregnancy Prevention and Sexual Health Education: Considering the Complex Needs of Teens in Foster Care
May is National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month and there is no better time to talk about the complex landscape of sexual and reproductive health for…
May 23, 2018
Investing in America's Adolescents: Why the Distribution of Title X Funds Matters
Yesterday, the White House proposed a policy change that would dramatically reduce adolescents’ access to appropriate reproductive…
May 17, 2018
PolicyLab: An Experiment in Charting New Frontiers
Over ten years ago, we came together from two very different fields because of the same problem: despite so much wealth in our region and country,…
May 10, 2018
More Children Diagnosed with Autism: Policies to Help Philadelphia Families Access Services
Our systems need to provide comprehensive, coordinated care to all children with autism and their families.
May 09, 2018
More Children Diagnosed with Autism: What Services Can Philadelphia Families Access?
According to a new CDC analysis, an estimated 1 in 59 children is estimated to have autism, an approximate 15 percent increase from the last…
Apr 27, 2018
Kinship Care in the Opioid Epidemic: The Overlooked Caregivers of the Overlooked Victims
As our nation continues to reel from a decades-long opioid epidemic that has devastated families and communities, the public health response has…
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