PolicyLab

Molly Kerstetter (she/her) is a clinical research coordinator at PolicyLab and within the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Molly is interested in utilizing school-based research and programming to improve equitable outcomes for children and adolescents. She currently works with Dr. Gwen Lawson, developing and testing implementation strategies to support caregivers’ and teachers’ use of behavioral interventions to support students with symptoms of ADHD within the School District of Philadelphia. In her role, Molly is also supporting the CHOP Tri-County School Mental Health Consortium to implement Tier I and II mental health programming for Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery County school districts.

Prior to her role at CHOP, Molly completed her Master of Public Health at Temple University in Social and Behavioral Sciences. While completing her degree, Molly also coordinated a school-based project for Temple with the aim of improving implementation of the school meal program within the School District of Philadelphia. She helped to conduct a needs assessment, consisting of surveys and focus groups with students, caregivers, and school faculty and staff to better understand barriers and facilitators to meal program implementation. In her free time, Molly loves to cook and bake for friends and family and trains Brazilian jiu jitsu.