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Overview
Promoting equity and dismantling systems of injustice that harm immigrants are critical for the current and future well-being our nation. Families with immigrant parents or children are valued members of our society. They are our neighbors, coworkers, friends, and fellow parents and their health and well-being is crucial to their ability to thrive. Children’s HealthWatch is committed to researching and advocating policies that support the health and success of immigrant families and particularly those with young children in the United States.
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Our Research
Click the links to read our research regarding immigrants, social determinants of health, and children and family health.
Policy Action Briefs and Policy Reports
- Children’s HealthWatch: Disparities in Household Food Insecurity by Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity.
- From Disparities to Discrimination: Getting at the Roots of Food Insecurity in America.
- Children of Immigrants: Healthy Beginnings Derailed by Food Insecurity.
- Report Card on Food Insecurity and Immigration: Helping Our Youngest First-Generation Americans to Thrive.
- Children’s HealthWatch: Disparities in Household Food Insecurity by Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity
- Food Stamps as Medicine: A New Perspective on Children’s Health.
Journal Articles
- Hunger in young children of Mexican Immigrant Families.
- Food Insecurity and Risk of Poor Health Among US-Born Children of Immigrants.
- Breastfeeding and Health Outcomes among Citizens of Immigrant Mothers.
Blogs
Click the links below to read our blogs on the health of immigrants in the U.S.
- Bring us your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free: Caring for children of immigrants.
- Healthy Little Mouths – why we care about oral health for the youngest patients.
In the News
Click the links below to read coverage of our work in the news.
- Families with immigrant members report doing without food stamps in Philadelphia.
- Anti-immigrant rhetoric in the US has forced some families to choose between safety and food.
- Immigrant food stamp use plummeted after Trump took office, new research shows.
- Trump’s rhetoric is deterring immigrant families from seeking public assistance study suggests.
- Following 10-year Gains, Study Reveals Drop in SNAP Enrollment By Immigrant Families.
- Immigrant families appear to be dropping out of food stamps.
- Lower SNAP Participation by Immigrant Mothers With Young Children.
Statements and Comments
Click the links to read our statements, testimonies, and public comments on policies and proposals that directly affect immigrant families.
- Children’s HealthWatch’s Public Comment on Public Charge.
- Children’s HealthWatch’s Statement Opposing Changes to Public Charge.
- Children’s HealthWatch Public Comment Opposing Proposed Changes to Fee Waiver Eligibility Criteria.
- Children’s HealthWatch’s Public Comment on “Apprehension Processing, Care and Custody of Alien Minors and Unaccompanied Children.”
- It’s time for Congress to act on CHIP, DACA.
- Statement on recent harmful policy developments.
- Comments to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
- NEHRAN Coalition Letter to President Obama.
- Dr. Frank’s Farm Bill Reauthorization Testimony – February 15, 2007.
- Dr. Chilton’s Farm Bill Reauthorization Testimony – March 13, 2007.
- Dr. Frank’s Testimony before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, U.S. Senate – July 17, 2001.
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