PolicyLab Co-Director Dr. David Rubin, MSCE, serves as one of twelve Commissioners on the federal Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities (CECANF). Created by the Protect Our Kids Act, the Commission must submit i...

PolicyLab’s recent report, “Psychotropic Medication Use by Pennsylvania Children in Foster Care and Enrolled in Medicaid” focused on the use of antipsychotics and polypharmacy among children and adolescents in Pennsylvania, given gr...

Kathleen Noonan, JD, has been appointed to the newly created role of Associate Vice President of Board Relations at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). She will be reporting directly to Madeline Bell, the Chief Executive...

PolicyLab's Jen Walter received a Sojourns Scholar Leadership Award from the Cambia Health Foundation to investigate the effectiveness of an interprofessional communication training program designed to improve clinical teams’ collab...

This new Evidence to Action brief, Shifting the Care and Payment Paradigm for Vulnerable Children, by PolicyLab's Evan Fieldston, MD, MBA, MSHP, and Jennifer Jonas, provides an in-depth look at the relationship between socioeconomic...

On Tuesday, June 16th, PolicyLab released a new report, Psychotropic Medication Use by Pennsylvania Children in Foster Care and Enrolled in Medicaid, in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services and funded by Ca...

PolicyLab and Project U-Turn have released a new report examining the high school graduation rates in Philadelphia. Check out the report, A Promise Worth Keeping: Advancing the High School Graduation Rate in Philadelphia here.

Dr. Chén Kenyon's research examines methods to improve medication adherence, especially after hospitalization, to help reduce repeat hospital admissions and improve the care of youth with asthma in the community. Check out this blog...

PolicyLab's Dr. Jim Guevara has been approved for PCORI funding for innovative research on communication to improve shared decision-making in ADHD. Congratulations Jim! The award has been approved pending completion of a business a...

On Monday, April 6th, in JAMA Pediatrics, PolicyLab released the largest study to date documenting potentially significant health risks associated with antipsychotic medication use by children. Our research suggests that the use of ...