Children Archives

09.24.2020 a red apple on a blue surface

Growing Out of Picky Eating

Could it be that adults now struggling with our own weight are trying to re-learn some of those picky eating behaviors of our childhood?

Guest Author Megan Pesch

07.07.2020 a graph of a number of people with different colored dots

Fostering Mortality

Attention to the special needs of foster children will be necessary to prevent the trailing effects of trauma and premature death.

Fellow Pat Williams

06.08.2020 a person wearing checkered shoes

Child Health is Adult Health

Addressing and preventing trauma in childhood could be a key factor in reducing one of America’s most common chronic inflammatory diseases.

Fellow Pat Williams

06.05.2020 a group of small plastic houses

Housing for Child Health

In Chicago, chronic eviction and housing instability meant increased odds of an underweight baby or of an infant’s death.

Fellow Edward Alexander

04.24.2020 a woman smiling at the camera

Janet Currie

PHP Fellow Gray Babbs profiles Janet Currie to understand her perspective on Covid-19 as a professor and how the pandemic will affect child mental health.

Fellow Gray Babbs

Editor Nicholas Diamond

04.02.2020 a close-up of a cracked ground

Contaminating Children

Current guidance from the EPA considers lead concentration in soil below 100 ppm as a low-risk category despite significant risks for children.

Guest Author Karen Clay

03.26.2020 a graph of a graph with black and white lines

Completion Depends on Conditions

For Black children, the idealized American nuclear family is not enough to overcome the presence of racially motivated disadvantage.

Fellow Edward Alexander

02.18.2020 a graph of different colored bars

Children's Allowance

The projected decline in children’s spending over the next 10 years will be driven mostly by a reduction in spending on education and nutrition programs.

Fellow Oluwatobi Alliyu

02.14.2020 an apple sliced in half

Trends in Childhood Obesity

Revised Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) packaging associated with a decrease in obesity prevalence among children.

Guest Author Madeleine Daepp

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