PolicyLab research was cited in a Congressional Research Service report on psychotropic medication prescriptions for children in foster care. The report referenced a study by director David Rubin, MD, MSCE, that examined trends of p...

PolicyLab is hiring a resident post-doc fellow to support our work around behavioral health. This position would lead the implementation of an innovative parent-training program housed in a pediatric primary care setting and support...

Primary Care Perspectives, a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia podcast, recently featured PolicyLab’s Joanne Wood, MD, MSHP. In the episode, Dr. Wood discusses how primary care pediatricians can teach positive parenting skills to ...

The transition from pediatric to adult health care systems can be daunting for anyone, but is especially challenging for young people with intellectual disabilities or other special health care needs. These youth and young adults fa...

Implicit bias refers to unconscious attitudes that lie below the surface, but may influence our behaviors. In this PolicyLab Research at a Glance brief, Tiffani Johnson, MD, MSc, studied whether pediatric residents working in an eme...

Primary Care Perspectives, a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia podcast, recently featured PolicyLab’s Brian Jenssen MD, MSHP. In the episode, Dr. Jenssen discusses how primary care pediatricians can help parents and caregivers qui...

Positively Connected for Health (PC4H) is a Philadelphia-based innovative project that aims to improve health outcomes for youth living with HIV who do not have a suppressed viral load that uses three distinct eHealth/mHealth interv...

As part of our continued effort to educate policymakers, physicians and researchers on issues related to children’s health, PolicyLab hosted its first webinar this week. PolicyLab researcher Kristen Feemster, MD, MPH, MSPH, andPaul ...

The Scattergood Foundation, in partnership with the National Council for Behavioral Health, has selected PolicyLab and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Positive Parenting Program to Improve Problem Behaviors in Preschool-Age Ch...

Primary Care Perspectives, a Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia podcast, recently featured PolicyLab’s Kate Yun, MD, MHS. In the episode, Dr. Yun discusses the unique health needs of refugee children and resources that physicians a...