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The Collaboratory for Kids & Community Health Launched by Nationwide Children’s Hospital to Share Best Practices for the Health of the Whole Child and Communities

Nationwide Children’s Hospital has launched The Collaboratory for Kids & Community Health, to provide community partners, corporate leaders, policy makers, health care systems and researchers a resource for sharing best practices in pediatric population health strategies. The hospital will fuel the Collaboratory with content based on their extensive experience working with diverse partners to improve communities, implement school-based health, provide high-quality housing, address mental and physical health and more. The site will also collate and share best practices from leaders in the community health space.

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Nationwide Children’s Hospital Announces Sale of First Home in Linden Community Through Affordable Housing Initiative

Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s  Healthy Neighborhoods Healthy Families initiative announces the sale of the first home in Linden, developed as part of an ongoing commitment to provide high quality, affordable homes for purchase in that community.

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Creary Lab

The Creary Lab, led by Susan Creary, MD, MSc, focuses on improving outcomes of children, adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease (SCD).

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Chisolm Lab Staff

Learn more about Deena Chisolm, PhD, and her dynamic team in the Chisolm Lab.

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Deena J Chisolm

Deena J. Chisolm, PhD, is director of the Center for Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research and vice president of Health Services Research in the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

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The team at Center for Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research is growing. Click the link below to view current job listings and to learn more about careers at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

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Sharnita D Harris

Sharnita Harris, PhD, is the Clinical Director of Psychology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital - Toledo, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and is a founding member of behavioral health services at Nationwide Children’s - Toledo. Dr. Harris completed her pre-doctoral internship at Nationwide Children’s Child Development Center in Westerville and a pediatric psychology fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh/UPMC. Her clinical interests include early intervention, increasing access to behavioral health care, quality improvement, and health equity.

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Orville Newton Ray Bignall II

O.N. Ray Bignall II, MD, FAAP, FASN, is chief health equity officer at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. He also serves as director of Kidney Health Advocacy and Community Engagement for the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, and an assistant professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

How Should a Neighborhood Improvement Initiative Measure Its Impact?

The Healthy Neighborhoods Healthy Families initiative has sparked millions of dollars of investment into the South Side of Columbus, Ohio. Deena Chisolm, PhD, director of the Center for Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, discusses making sure that investment has an impact.