PolicyLab researcher Dr. Deepak Palakshappa discusses his recent study, which found that strong competitive food laws and strong advertising laws were associated with reduced obesity.

The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services continues to make progress on the recommendations put forth in PolicyLab's report that found a growing number of teens and young adults were being prescribed antipsychotics. …

In this article, PolicyLab's Dr. Nadia Dowshen discusses the use of mobile health (mHealth) technology in communicating with HIV positive youth.

A new study co-authored by PolicyLab's Dr. Alex Fiks discussed in this article, highlights the need for shared decision-making (SDM) by both providers and parents in the treatment of children with autism spectrum…

PolicyLab researcher Dr. Eugene Day describes computer models he and his team develop that are simulations programmed for the purpose of quality improvement. 

This article references PolicyLab's report, published last year, on psychotropic medication use by Pennsylvania children in foster care and enrolled in Medicaid.

In a blog for the Lupus Foundation of America's "Ask the Expert" series, PolicyLab's Dr. Andrea Knight answers 15 questions offering insight into how lupus can greatly impact a child’s or teen’s mental health.

This article discusses a PolicyLab blog on how stresses in the emergency department can affect unconscious racial bias and research on how clinician, child, and guardian gender is associated with receipt of routine…

This blog discusses research from Dr. Alex Fiks and Dr. Kristen Feemster, which evaluated the feasibility and impact of interventions informed by behavioral economics to increase Tdap vaccination among caregivers of young infants…

This article discusses a new PolicyLab guest blog written by researcher, Laura Johnson Faherty, MD, MPH, who is working with PolicyLab and the Center for Perinatal and Pediatric Health Disparities on neonatal abstinence syndrome …