
General Pediatrics Research
NYU Langone’s Division of General Pediatrics is committed to the advancement of knowledge through research, with the ultimate goal of improving children’s health. The division’s faculty, including clinicians and researchers from primary care pediatrics, the Division of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, and the Child Protection Program, along with researchers from the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, who conduct comprehensive research that addresses significant public health issues affecting children’s health, care, and wellbeing.
Research interests in the division are wide-ranging and are supported by grants from federal agencies, foundations, and local sources. In the primary care setting, these include poverty-associated health disparities, the role of health literacy in adverse child health outcomes, and strategies to prevent obesity and enhance early child development.
Research and quality improvement interests in the inpatient setting focus on issues that affect children who are in hospitals, including inpatient safety during discharge and transitions of care, postoperative hospital care models and inpatient pain management, child and family engagement in care and research, drug development, and well-newborn care.
Below are examples of some of the research activities within the Division of General Pediatrics:
- poverty-related social determinants of health and pediatric healthcare practice redesign
- Starting Early Program: primary care–based childhood obesity prevention beginning in pregnancy
- health literacy and child health: medication errors, obesity prevention, and asthma management
- smoke exposure and child and adult health
- pediatric hospital medicine best practices
- determinants of child developmental outcomes: digital media exposure, health literacy, and social needs
Division Publications
Division faculty members frequently publish their research in leading peer-reviewed publications. Here is a selection of their recent accomplishments.
Considering How the Caregiver-Child Dyad Informs the Promotion of Healthy Eating Patterns in Children
Clinical pediatrics. 2025 Jun ; 64:797-808
JAMA Pediatrics. 2025; E1-E12
Long COVID in Young Children, School-Aged Children, and Teens
JAMA pediatrics. 2025 May 27;
A world without US support: WHO funding cuts and the future of childhood health
BMJ paediatrics open. 2025 May 21; 9:
Evaluation of a Fruit and Vegetable Voucher Program in a Prenatal and Pediatric Primary Care-Based Obesity Prevention Program
Childhood obesity. 2025 Apr 24;
Child Obesity Prevention From Pregnancy: Long-Term Follow-Up of the Starting Early Program Trial
Pediatrics. 2025 Apr 01;
Eco-anxiety and Climate Anxiety: Bellwethers of the Climate Crisis's Mental Health Impact on Children and Adolescents
Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP. 2025 Mar-Apr 01; 46:e223-e226
Heart Healthy Routines in Young Children With Sesame Workshop: A Qualitative Study of Latina Mothers With Economic Hardship
Academic pediatrics. 2025 Mar ; 25:102582