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...

Regular contributor to The Upshot at The New York Times and Professor of Pedaitrics at Indiana Univeristy School of Medicine Dr. Aaron Carroll features a recent PolicyLab study in his HealthTriage video series. The study, published ...

A recent PolicyLab study was one of the ten Health Affairs articles most-shared through Twitter, Facebook and the media this past year. In their study, PolicyLab researcher Doug Strane and Director Dr. David Rubin found that parents...

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are at epidemic proportions in the United States, with unprecedented numbers of chlamydia and gonorrhea – 1.5 million and nearly 400,000 cases in 2015, respectively – reported by the Centers fo...

Hypertension and prehypertension in children often go undiagnosed, according to a new study from PolicyLab’s Dr. Alex Fiks. The study focused on children with abnormal blood pressures across the United States, and is the first to sh...