I often meet families in our clinic at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis when their child is seen for a pre-operative exam prior to dental care under anesthesia. In […]
As a pediatrician and researcher on how housing affects child health, I see the unintended consequences of public policy playing out on the bodies on my patients every day. I […]
President Obama asserted last week in his State of the Union address that what united us as a nation is “the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the […]
The state of the US economy is a major source of concern among families with young children. Unemployment, rising costs, and cuts to safety net programs, such as the Supplemental […]
Working in the nexus between policy, advocacy, and research, we hear story after story of how frustrating and arduous the climb out of poverty can be for parents of young […]
November marks the beginning of what is sometimes cynically referred to as “Hunger Season.” No, it’s not officially the beginning of open-season on hungry people, though these days it can […]
The self-portrait of a caregiver in one of my programs at the Center for Hunger Free Communities in Philadelphia hangs in my office. It is a portrait of pure humanity […]
As pediatricians and researchers, my colleagues and I see every day the many ways in which poverty and food insecurity are written on the bodies and brains of our very […]
Children’s HealthWatch Research and Policy Priorities are comprised of the topics on which we will be focusing for the next two to three years. While we continually collect data on […]