Dr. Miller's Pittsburgh Study offers an example of centering community members, their voices, and their experiences to improve child and adolescent thriving and racial equity.
Dr. Liz Miller's recent research shows that nonbinary and transmasculine adolescents are experiencing more non-affirming health care experiences than transfeminine adolescents. These negative and non-affirming experiences create health care and well visit avoidance. Healthcare systems need to address their disrespect and refusal of care as well as proactively train and educate their providers to support the transcommunity with competent and affirming care.
Dr. Liz Miller and her team's conceptual framework on The Pittsburgh Study (TPS) is a community-partnered, multicohort design to understand and promote child and youth thriving, build health equity, and strengthen communities across socio-ecological levels and developmental domains.
Read more: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2021.797526/full
Faculty member Dr. Michele Levine recently published findings on the relationship between loss of control eating during pregnancy and traumatic events during childhood.
Faculty member Dr. Traci Kazmerski evaluated child neurologists' knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding sexual and reproductive healthcare.
Dr. Kazmerski, Dr. Miller, and their team surveyed parents and caregivers about proposed bills to ban gender-affirming medical interventions for minors in the U.S. and the perceived effects on their transgender youth's mental health.
