Nelson Mandela said, “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” IHPS researchers believe this deeply, and this month we highlight research led by our faculty and staff on children’s and adolescent health. This research covers a range of essential issues, including the reopening of schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, the intergenerational impacts of incarceration, quality of care for hospitalized children, children’s mental health, and access to reproductive health care for adolescents. This work has impacted both policy and practice, as you’ll read in the feature.
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the founding of IHPS as the Health Policy Program at UCSF. Mark your calendars for a symposium to be held during the day on October 6, which will celebrate our history and inspire future research and policy advocacy at UCSF and beyond.
Joanne Spetz
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IHPS Focus On:
Children's and Adolescent Health
Many IHPS faculty are researching and working on policies related to the health of children and adolescents.
Naomi Bardach, MD researches pediatric patient-involved hospital safety efforts, use of mobile phone technology, mental health, asthma, and sickle cell care. Rita Hamad, MD, PhD researches the effects of school segregation on children's health. Suni Kaiser, MD, works to improve care quality and health outcomes for hospitalized children.
Learn more about IHPS's current work to improve the health of children and adolescents. Read more
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2022-24 National Clinician Scholars |
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Please join us in welcoming the new cohort of
National Clinician Scholars!
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Welcome to the 2022-2024 Scholars: Abigail Arons, MD, MPAff, Hannah Decker, MD, Edna Esquer, PhD, FN-BC, James Ford, MD, Katie Reeves, PhD, PMHNP-BC, Diana Robles, MD and Mary Xu, MD!
The National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) at UCSF is housed at IHPS. The 2-year post-doctoral program for MD and RNs with a PhD aims to offer unparalleled training for clinicians as change agents driving policy-relevant research and partnerships to improve health and health care. The goal of the program is to cultivate health equity, eliminate health disparities, invent new models of care, and achieve higher quality health care at lower cost by training nurse and physician researchers. At UCSF, the NCSP program goal is to foster the development of the next generation of health and healthcare leaders who can use the rigorous tools of research to drive meaningful change in communities and in systems. See the bios and research interests of the new scholars here.
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Perceptions of and Knowledge Acquisition about Brain Health and Aging among Latin American Immigrants: A Qualitative Paper
In a recent Clinical Gerontologist article, Alissa Bernstein Sideman, PhD, MPH, MA with Dan Dohan, PhD and colleagues looked at perceptions of brain health in older Latin American immigrants via in-depth personal interviews. There is a high prevalence of dementia among older Latin American immigrants. Bernstein Sideman, Dohan, and colleagues found varying understanding of dementia and brain health. Their findings suggest developing a more concise and clear way of communicating the structure and functions of the brain, promoting realistic understandings of what nonnormative brain aging entails, and disseminating more information on empirically-supported maintenance approaches
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Receiving and giving electronic cigarettes as gifts in China: Findings from International Tobacco Control China Survey
In the first study using a population-based survey to examine receiving and giving e-cigarettes as gifts in China, Wendy Max, PhD and colleagues found that e-cigarette gifting has not yet become a prevalent practice in China. The positive association between attitudes about cigarettes being good gifts and giving e-cigarettes as gifts may also imply that health campaigns designed to combat the social acceptance of cigarette gifting could have a similar effect on reducing e-cigarette gifting. Their findings were recently published in Preventative Medicine Reports.
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Strategies to Manage Drugs and Devices Approved Based on Limited Evidence: Results of a Modified Delphi Panel
In a recent Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics article, Sanket Druhva, MD and Rita Redberg, MD, MS and colleagues, discuss the results of the modified Delphi panel approach they used with 13 national experts to identify promising policy directions to address physician-patient decision-making needs about the use of drugs and medical devices coming to market through expedited development and review pathways. Key next steps include building momentum for policy changes that strengthen post-approval study requirements and implementing curbs on prices to incentivize data collection.
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IHPS faculty are responding to policy challenges raised by the
COVID-19 pandemic with rapid-cycle research and technical assistance.
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Dr. Sharad I. Wadhwani is a pediatric gastroenterologist and liver specialist who cares for children with gastrointestinal diseases and children undergoing liver transplantation.
Dr. Wadhwani's research focuses on understanding how social adversity impacts the care of children following a liver transplant. His goal is to identify ways in which health care systems can improve outcomes for these patients.
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Cynthia Harper:
(National Public Radio)
Renee Hsia:
Jinoos Yazdany:
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