Through PolicyLab’s joint pilot grant program with Clinical Futures, we have the opportunity to invest in research projects aimed at answering cutting edge clinical questions, developing or informing clinical programs, or influencing…

PolicyLab recently released revised guidance developed by our interdisciplinary team of public health professionals, pediatricians, infectious disease experts and epidemiologists, offering recommendations for how schools, their…

PolicyLab just released a policy brief in which our experts provide a vision for a pediatric health system that—in partnership with the adult care system—addresses health disparities in the postpartum period and ensures that all…

PolicyLab is excited to share our first annual Impact Report, which highlights how our center took an evidence-to-action approach to improve children’s health and well-being during the past year. Throughout this difficult year of…

One in four U.S. children has at least one immigrant parent. And even before the COVID-19 pandemic placed additional strains on our health care system, PolicyLab experts helped discover that one in three U.S. pediatricians reported…

For over a year, an interdisciplinary team from PolicyLab and the University of Pennsylvania have been maintaining a unique county-level COVID-19 forecasting model known as COVID-Lab, which has helped inform the efforts of policymakers…

Firearms are one of the leading causes of death for children. Despite calls for gun safety measures, advancing firearm research that could spur action on evidence-based policies to protect youth has proven difficult. In new PolicyLab…

PolicyLab’s Behavioral Health Portfolio is recognizing Mental Health Awareness Month with a new blog post, written in collaboration with partners in Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s (CHOP) Department of Child and Adolescent…

The Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting is where all the latest cutting-edge children’s health research is presented, and we are very excited to have many of our PolicyLab researchers participating this year. The…

Adolescence is a critical time of development and teens face many unique challenges to their health and well-being. From navigating the transition to adult care, behavioral health concerns, sexual and reproductive issues, and now the…