Sessions
Innovative Methods 3b: Use of Community-Engaged Research for Creating Policy-Responsive Program Adaptation / Room 940
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM Wed
Meredith Matone is the director of PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and an associate professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Matone serves as the faculty director of the PolicyLab Community Partnerships in Research pilot grant program and serves as core faculty for the Qualitative Research Core at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute. Her research interests include maternal and young child health, as well as family well-being. Dr. Matone focuses on building community and public agency research partnerships to support improvements in policies and programs that serve mothers and infants in under-resourced communities. She is experienced in large-scale program evaluation, mixed-methods research designs, and use of administrative data for observational study designs in areas of child and caregiver health.