PolicyLab researchers Dr. Deepak Palakshappa and Dr. Alex Fiks discuss how pediatricians can address barriers and opportunities to better support suburban poor families.

This article features research from PolicyLab's Dr. Deepak Palakshappa, which found that strong competitive food laws and strong advertising laws were associated with reduced obesity.

This article features PolicyLab researcher Dr. Nadia Dowshen's mobile health (mHealth) applications that aid in communicating with HIV positive youth.

PolicyLab researcher Dr. Brian Jenssen discusses his two pilot studies that utilized clinical decision support tools to make it easier for pediatric clinicians to aid parental smoking cessation processes.

PolicyLab's Dr. Jim Guevara continues to test the effects of initiating a literacy program, called Reach Out and Read (ROR), in the newborn period - six months sooner than it is normally begun.

This article discusses a PolicyLab blog on the American Academy of Pediatrics' policy recommendations about what parents should do, and how pediatricians can respond, in the context of some parents’ vaccine fears and hesitations. …

PolicyLab researcher Dr. Joanne Wood discusses her Child Adult Relationship Enhancement in Primary Care (PriCARE) program - a 6-session group parent training designed to teach positive parenting skills.   …

PolicyLab researcher Stephanie Mayne, MHS is interviewed about the development of an electronic portal designed to improve communication regarding attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) between primary care and…

PolicyLab's Dr. David Rubin discusses the new Pennsylvania Telephonic Psychiatric Consultation Service Program (TiPS), designed to increase availability of child psychiatry consultation teams to prescribers of psychotropic…

PolicyLab researcher Dr. Deepak Palakshappa discusses his recent study, which found that strong competitive food laws and strong advertising laws were associated with reduced obesity.