A 2020 statewide needs assessment identified substance use as one of the most pressing issues impacting families with young children in Pennsylvania. Moreover, reviews of maternal mortality across the state have shown the prominent…

PolicyLab would like to welcome our new director, Dr. Meredith Matone! Dr. Matone has been a member of PolicyLab for 13 years, starting as a research coordinator and extensively growing her research portfolio composed of maternal-child…

Many young people who menstruate face financial and material barriers to accessing menstrual products, otherwise known as period poverty, which impacts their health and well-being. While we continue to develop the research on menstrual…

Through PolicyLab’s joint pilot grant program with Clinical Futures, we have the opportunity to review proposals for pioneering research studies aimed at answering cutting-edge clinical questions, developing or informing clinical…

PolicyLab recently launched our annual “Back to School” series in which our exerts and guest authors emphasize the need to support the health and well-being of youth as they return to school this year and highlight the importance of…

College campuses are environments ripe for the spread of infectious diseases. Yet many U.S. college and university students have not received all the recommended vaccines, making robust vaccination programs critical for higher education…

PolicyLab is excited to share our 2023 Impact Report, our third annual report highlighting examples of how our center took an evidence-to-action approach to improve children’s health and well-being during the past year.   Through this…

PolicyLab is looking for the next cohort of applicants for our Community Partnerships in Research Program! Applications are due Sept. 5, 2023, at 5 p.m. ET.  Now in its second year, this program—developed alongside community partners…

Today, in partnership with Maternity Care Coalition and Philadelphia’s Office of Domestic Violence Strategies, PolicyLab released an issue brief outlining an ideal systems-level response to preventing intimate partner violence (IPV)…

Have you noticed a few new changes on PolicyLab’s website?  It has been about six years since we launched our new website, which debuted PolicyLab’s research portfolios. The research and policy landscapes have changed significantly in…