Evidence-based home visiting services, funded through the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program, provide tremendous support to low-income families in Pennsylvania and around the country. While these…

For parents of children with complex chronic conditions, the challenges of coordinating and providing care for their children are often at odds with maintaining employment, forcing families to make difficult choices around job…

In 2008, a doctor and a lawyer came together to form a research center that would leverage both of their expertise to address some of the biggest health and health care challenges facing children and families. Ten years later,…

PolicyLab researcher Brian Jenssen, MD, MSHP, wrote an opinion piece for PennLive that provides an overview on the efficacy of Tobacco 21, an initiative that would raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco to 21. This initiative is…

A number of PolicyLab researchers are heading to Toronto for the Pediatric Academic Societies' (PAS) annual meeting May 5-8. Each year, several of our investigators attend this event to share their latest projects with colleagues from…

One of the key ways that medical innovation and advancement happens is if those embedded in the medical field apply an entrepreneurial framework to their work and research. PolicyLab researcher Dr. Brian Jenssen is part of Children’s…

Earlier this month, PolicyLab hosted our second-ever live webinar. PolicyLab researcher Katherine Yun, MD, MHS, and Minnesota Department of Health's Refugee Health Coordinator Blain Mamo, MPH, discussed how health systems and community…

Youth living with HIV who have health insurance may be half as likely to be at high risk for transmitting HIV than their uninsured peers, according to new research from PolicyLab researchers Sarah Wood, MD, MSHP, Nadia Dowshen, MD,…

Last week was the first-ever Global Teen Health Week. One of the ways that PolicyLab participated in this awareness event was by publishing a series of blog posts on pressing teen health issues. See below for all of our posts: Youth…

March 18-24 is the first-ever Global Teen Health Week! To celebrate, we’ve planned a few special events that we hope you’ll join us for: A Twitter chat on teen mental health; March 21 from 2- 3 p.m. ET Join PolicyLab (…