PolicyLab

Danielle Sands is a clinical research project manager at PolicyLab and Clinical Futures at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). She is currently working alongside Dr. Danielle Erkoboni in the Literacy Lab on various projects that promote early learning, literacy, and early relational health through parent-child interactions. These projects aim to better understand how reading, playful learning, and screen time impact children’s cognitive development, and how to best support parents in promoting their children’s early learning.     

Prior to working at PolicyLab, she worked at the Eating Disorder Assessment and Treatment Program in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at CHOP on various research projects assessing therapeutic strategies, working directly with patients suffering from restrictive eating disorders. 

Preceding CHOP, Mrs. Sands worked at Einstein Healthcare Network as a project coordinator for the prenatal health education program, CenteringPregnancy, promoting patient-centered care and improved birth outcomes for women in Philadelphia and its surrounding counties. 

Mrs. Sands received her Master of Public Health from La Salle University and her Bachelor of Science in Biobehavioral Health from The Pennsylvania State University.