Recent Publications
Advancing Life Course Intervention Research. eds. Neal Halfon, Ed Schor, Shirley Russ. Pediatrics. 2022; 149 (supplement 5). Find supplemental materials and teaching tools at https://lcirn.ucla.edu/advancing-lcir
Arons A, Schickedanz A, Halfon N. (2021) Using a life course framework to redesign Medicaid. Acad Pediatr. 2021 Sep 20;S1876-2859(21)00449-6. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2021.09.008
Anderson NW, Eisenberg D, Halfon N, et al. Trends in Measures of Child and Adolescent Well-being in the US from 2000-2019. JAMA Netw Open. 2022;5(10):e2238582. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.38582
Dudovitz R, Russ S, Berghaus M, et al. (2021) COVID-19 and Children’s Well-Being: A Rapid Research Agenda. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 25; 1655-1669. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-021-03207-2
Halfon, N., Chandra, A., Cannon, J.S. et al. The Gross Developmental Potential (GDP2): a new approach for measuring human potential and wellbeing. BMC Public Health 22, 1626 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14030-x
Halfon N, Russ SA, Kahn R. (2022) Inequality and child health: dynamic population health interventions. Current Opinion in Pediatrics: Feb 2022, 34(1) p 33-38 doi: 10.1097/MOP.0000000000001087
Halfon N, Aguilar E, Stanley L, et al. (2020) Measuring equity from the start: Disparities in the health development of US kindergartners. Health Affairs 39(10): 1702-1709. DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00920
For more publications, check out our research node pages under the “Research” tab!
Webinars
Family Health Webinar Series (2022-2023)
- Family Health, Family Functioning, Family Resilience: What’s in a Name?
- Family Resilience with Dr. Froma Walsh and Dr. Nastassia Hajal
- Parents as Drivers of Systems Change with Yolie Flores
INRICH 13th Annual Workshop on Childhood Inequalities
- A Life Course Health Development Framework to Address Child Health Inequalities with Neal Halfon
- Three Horizons: A Framework to Guide Systems Transition with Graham Leicester
- Using Global Multi-Level Data with Jody Heymann
- New Approaches to Evaluating Early Life Public Health Interventions with John Wright
- Learning from Comparative Systems Research to Accelerate Equitable Child Health Outcomes with Sharon Goldfeld
- Child of the North: Building a Fairer Future with David Taylor-Robinson
- Deep Causes of Health Inequality with Kate Pickett
- The Systems Work of Social Change with Cynthia Rayner
- All Children Thrive Cincinnati: Adaptive, Multi-level Approaches to Interventions to Improve Equity with Rob Kahn
- Nesting Interventions in Cohort Studies: GenV with Melissa Wake
- A Life Course Model of Adverse Childhood Experiences with Jane Kinsey
Living on the Edge: a life course discussion with Dr. Glen Elder and Dr. Rick Settersten
Life Course Research Visual Toolkit in partnership with the Lifespan Enterprise Committee
- An introduction to life course research and complexity science
- Creating systematic processes for longitudinal integration of datasets across the life span
- Utilizing data sciences resources to prepare and package integrated datasets
- Developing and validating ways to model high-dimensional data
- From microsimulations to complexity science-informed interventions
- Applying analytical methods that can capture the multiple dimensions of time (timing, dose, duration)
Strategies for Engaging Stakeholders in Research with the UNC Jordan Institute for Families
Anti-racist research and centering race and racism in the life course research agenda with Dr. Iheoma Iruka
Reports
Newsletters
September 2022: Moving Life Course Interventions Upstream
May 2022: Advancing Life Course Intervention Research
March 2022: Accelerating Life Course Intervention Research
November 2021: New approaches to research on the short- and long-term impacts of COVID-19 on children’s well-being
August 2021: Introducing the LCIRN Scholars Program
June 2021: Youth-led Participatory Action Research
February 2021: A rapid research agenda for COVID-19 and children’s well-being
November 2020: Introducing the LCIRN
Tools and Toolkits
Emergency & Pandemic Preparedness Toolkit for Families of Children with Special Healthcare Needs (English, Español)
Family Functioning Measures: A matrix of 40 validated tools to measure aspects of family functioning including organizational processes, belief systems, and communications processes
Life Course Research Visual Toolkit in partnership with the Lifespan Enterprise Committee