Our team is evaluating the impact of neighborhood greenspace on the risk of child maltreatment in Philadelphia. Given our emphasis on addressing neighborhood investment as part of this project, we created a community advisory group made…

Author:

Yuan He

This project sought to assess and understand the impact of the pandemic on immigrant mothers’ access to prenatal health care using a mixed-methods approach. We chose to focus on access to prenatal care for two reasons: 1) pregnancy has…

Authors:

Xi Wang, Deanna Marshall

Through a multi-methods approach, our team is working to detail the experiences of families and providers who utilize, and determine the acceptability, benefits of, and concerns raised by the use of telehealth for these types of…

Authors:

Kate Wallis, Katherine Kellom

Using a qualitative, youth-centered approach, our team aimed to understand the experiences of adolescents and young adults who menstruate and live in poverty in the U.S., identify the barriers and facilitators to adequate menstrual…

Authors:

Shelby Davies, Nadia Dowshen,

Deborah Thomas, PhD

, Sarah Wood

To further explore this issue, our team sought to evaluate the impact of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on soda consumption among youth, and to understand the perceived fairness and effectiveness of the tax among low-income parents. In…

Author:

Emma Edmondson

Our team mapped and described sanctuary areas in the United States and assessed their impact on Latinx population health. To do this, we built a novel, merged national dataset that links demographic information, birth outcomes and data…

Author:

Robin Ortiz MD

To address this issue, our team plans to develop and test a unique telemedicine system that simulates pharmacist prescribing and dispensing of contraceptives to adolescent women through medication dispensing machines, or MedStations…

Authors:

Nadia Dowshen, Sarah Wood

To build on the success of this parenting intervention, our team assessed a new five-session Positive Discipline Module with caregivers of children 2-6 years old who have completed the PriCARE program. The additional module is a group…

Author:

Joanne Wood

Through this project, we aimed to determine rates of chlamydia screening and infection among adolescent females in Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s (CHOP) primary care network and identify highest-priority practices for…

Author:

Sarah Wood