PolicyLab’s 2023-2026 Strategic Plan outlines the center's three-year goals under its strategic priorities, which focus on conducting high-impact research, fostering a more inclusive and equitable working environment, increasing our capacity to create meaningful policy change and…

Child maltreatment (CM) is a pervasive public health problem and there is a critical need for brief, effective, scalable prevention programs. Problematic parent-child relationships lie at the heart of CM. Parents who maltreat their children are more likely to have punitive parenting…

The COVID-19 pandemic intensified food insecurity (FI) across the country, and families with children were disproportionately affected. This study explores experiences with FI and social resources during the pandemic among families participating in a free, clinic-based community…

Many children admitted to the hospital remain hospitalized far longer than anticipated. In some cases, illness acuity or delays in inpatient medical care prolong hospitalization. For other children, however, delays in transitioning to home and community-based resources prevent timely…

PolicyLab responded to a request for public comment from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the Proposed Rule on Revisions in Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Food Packages. In their response, PolicyLab experts offer their perspective on…

Clinical decision support (CDS) is a promising intervention for improving uptake of HIV testing and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). However, little is known regarding provider perspectives on acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of CDS for HIV prevention in pediatric…

OBJECTIVES: To test effects of a social media-based parenting program for mothers with postpartum depressive symptoms. METHODS: We conducted a randomized controlled trial from December 2019 to August 2021 of a parenting program using Facebook. Women with mild-to-moderate depressive…

OBJECTIVES: To examine how outpatient mental health (MH) follow-up after a pediatric MH emergency department (ED) discharge varies by patient characteristics and to evaluate the association between timely follow-up and return encounters. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective study of…

To understand ED providers' perspective on how to best care for individuals who present to US emergency departments (EDs) following self-injurious behavior, purposive recruitment identified nursing directors, medical directors, and social workers (n = 34) for telephone interviews from…

For youth with anorexia nervosa (AN), remission requires high caloric goals to achieve weight restoration, consumption of a wide variety of calorically dense foods, and reintroduction of eliminated foods. Family-based treatment (FBT), the gold-standard treatment for youth with AN,…