Following changes to prescribing guidelines in 2015, our team will examine longitudinal trends in psychotropic prescribing rates among Medicaid-enrolled children in Pennsylvania from 2016 to 2021. The analysis will pay particular…

Authors:

Meredith Matone, Doug Strane

Our team plans consolidate and disseminate best practices to help pediatric researchers engage in anti-racist research practices. We will review existing literature to identify best practices for conducting anti-racist research, and to…

Author:

Kate Wallis

Our team will evaluate the impact of neighborhood greenspace on the risk of child maltreatment in Philadelphia. Given our emphasis on addressing neighborhood investment as part of this project, we will begin by identifying and engaging…

Author:

Yuan He

Through this project, we will take a mixed-method, population-based approach to assess and understand the impact of the pandemic on immigrant mothers’ access to prenatal health care and outcomes. This includes disparities based on…

Authors:

Xi Wang, Deanna Marshall

Through a mixed-methods approach, our team plans to detail the experiences of families and providers who utilize telehealth services for the assessment of ASD in young children, and determine the acceptability, benefits of, and…

Authors:

Kate Wallis, Katherine Kellom

Using a qualitative, youth-centered approach, our team aimed to understand the experiences of adolescents and young adults who menstruate and live in poverty in the U.S., identify the barriers and facilitators to adequate menstrual…

Authors:

Shelby Davies, Nadia Dowshen,

Deborah Thomas, PhD

, Sarah Wood

To further explore this issue, our team seeks to understand the perceived fairness and effectiveness of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax, including the innovative approach of designating tax revenue to fund expansion of free pre…

Author:

Emma Edmondson

Our team mapped and described sanctuary areas in the United States and assessed their impact on Latinx population health. To do this, we built a novel, merged national dataset that links demographic information, birth outcomes and data…

Author:

Robin Ortiz MD

To address this issue, our team plans to develop and test a unique telemedicine system that simulates pharmacist prescribing and dispensing of contraceptives to adolescent women through medication dispensing machines, or MedStations…

Authors:

Nadia Dowshen, Sarah Wood

To build on the success of this parenting intervention, our team will assess a new four-session Positive Discipline Module with caregivers of children 2-6 years old who have completed the PriCARE program. The additional module is a…

Author:

Joanne Wood

Through this project, we aimed to determine rates of chlamydia screening and infection among adolescent females in Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s (CHOP) primary care network and identify highest-priority practices for…

Author:

Sarah Wood