PolicyLab funds a variety of innovative research projects through a pilot grant program with Clinical Futures. Check out this section to learn about these projects.
To further explore this issue, our team sought to evaluate the impact of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on soda consumption among youth, and to understand the perceived fairness and effectiveness of the tax among low-income parents. In…
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…
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…
To build on the success of this parenting intervention, our team assessed a new five-session Positive Discipline Module with caregivers of children 2-6 years old who have completed the PriCARE program. The additional module is a group…
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…