PolicyLab researcher Nadia Dowshen, MD, recently reviewed a new UNICEF handbook that aims to ensure practitioners have a broad understanding of the psychological and social impacts of HIV on childhood and adolescence. The handbook was…

Medical and research communities at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) want to know how they can effectively capitalize on texting and other new avenues of communication with their young patients through mobile health …

An estimated four to eight children die every day from abuse and neglect, and half of these children are less than a year old. These statistics were the driving force behind the federal Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect…

Last month, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia in Association with The Philadelphia County Medical Society and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health held a continuing medical education program on Long-Acting Reversible…

PolicyLab researcher Dr. Katherine Yun and colleagues from the New York University School of Medicine and Langone Medical Center discuss in a new commentary in the AMA Journal of Ethics how undocumented immigrants face a unique set of…

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS) and PolicyLab at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) will hold a press conference on Tuesday, February 23rd, from 2pm to 2:30pm. At this event, DHS…

On February 17th, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia in Association with The Philadelphia County Medical Society and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health will be holding a continuing medical education program on Long…

A new Philadelphia Magazine article discusses the high rates of antipsychotics prescribing for children in Pennsylvania. This past summer, PolicyLab released a report, Psychotropic Medication Use by Pennsylvania Children in Foster Care…

JAMA Pediatrics published an editorial by PolicyLab's Maggie Eisen and Dr. David Rubin titled “Breaking New Ground in Health Services Research: Effect of Attribution Length in a Pediatric Medicaid Accountable Care Organization." The…

Clinicians caring for immigrant children (or children with immigrant parents) often need to use translated versions of standardized screening instruments, also known as questionnaires. Existing translated, culturally-adapted, and…