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.
Digital Ecosystems, Children, and Adolescents: Technical Report
Pediatrics. 2026 Feb 01; 157:
Digital Ecosystems, Children, and Adolescents: Policy Statement
Pediatrics. 2026 Feb 01; 157:
Stakeholder Perspectives on Remote Delivery of a Group-Based Child Obesity Prevention Program for Latino Families With Low Income
Journal of nutrition education & behavior. 2026 Jan 22;
Intrauterine SARS-CoV-2 Exposure and Infant Neurodevelopment through 18 Months of Age: Findings from the RECOVER Pregnancy Study
Journal of pediatrics. 2026 Jan 19; 114997
Social Determinants of Health and Pediatric Long COVID in the US
JAMA pediatrics. 2026 Jan 05;
Short-Term Medicaid Utilization Associated With an Advanced Primary Care Model
Pediatrics. 2025 Dec 01; 156:
Parent-Reported Measures of Weight-Related Health Behaviors in Early Childhood: A Scoping Review
Childhood obesity. 2025 Dec ; 21:688-712
How COVID-19 Affected Parenting in a Multi-City Sample With Low Incomes
Journal of family issues. JFI. 2025 Nov 25;