News & Highlights
Child Health
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Five Questions with Lana Vasung
December 9, 2022 | BCH pediatrician tackles proprioception in neural development with our Five Senses funding.
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Five Questions With Lotfi Merabet
April 12, 2022 | Our Sight and Science awardee talks visual impairment, vision, collaboration, and communication.
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Racial Socialization in Clinical Practice
January 26, 2021 | Visiting scholar presents her pilot work, as part of a national lecture series for budding research investigators.
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Five Questions with Erica Kenney
October 27, 2020 | Our pilot grant awardee discusses her research on preventing childhood obesity.
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Five Questions With … Elsie Taveras
January 23, 2020 | Our co-faculty lead for child health discusses her research on obesity as part of our Community Engagement program.
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Optimizing Healthy Weight among Children
October 31, 2019 | Newly funded projects engage community partners to leverage existing federal and local policies to prevent obesity.
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Food Fear
May 22, 2018 | Health care experts gather at HMS to learn about new approaches to eating disorder prevention.
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Putting Kids First
April 7, 2017 | The 2017 Harvard Catalyst Child Health symposium “Putting Kids First: Facilitating Multisite Pediatric Studies” brought together speakers from industry, regulatory organizations, and hospitals to explore the challenges of designing and running pediatric clinical trials.
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