PolicyLab

Dory Bittle (she/her) is a clinical research coordinator at PolicyLab and Clinical Futures at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She works with Dr. Danielle Cullen across her portfolio of mixed-methods research and programming initiatives focused on advancing health equity for children affected by social and structural barriers. Ms. Bittle’s work will support the implementation and evaluation of strategies to assess social risk and connect families with critical community resources.

Ms. Bittle’s professional interests include addressing inequity in healthcare systems, social and behavioral health interventions, and implementation science. She brings experience in intervention design, program implementation, and evaluation, as well as participant recruitment, data collection, and data analysis.

Before joining PolicyLab and Clinical Futures, Ms. Bittle served as a Research Associate with the Siminoff Research Group in the College of Public Health at Temple University. Ms. Bittle received a master’s degree in Public Health, with a concentration in Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. While at Johns Hopkins, Ms. Bittle contributed to a diverse range of public health projects. Notably, she received grant funding to adapt and test a personal agency-based sexual and reproductive health curriculum for adolescents in Masindi, Uganda. She earned her bachelor's degree in Applied Developmental Psychology, with a concentration in Human Development, from the University of Pittsburgh.