The Future of Families and Child Well-being Study and Opportunities to Study Multiple Dimensions of Health

The New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) is holding a seminar at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, September 26, 2023, as part of its 2023 Special Populations Core Seminar Series. The following is information provided by NJ ACTS:

“The Future of Families and Child Well-being Study and Opportunities to Study Multiple Dimensions of Health”

Presented by Sarah Pachman, Princeton University Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child and Family Well-being

Sarah Pachman is the director of research and policy at Princeton University’s Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child and Family Well-being. She received a Ph.D. in social work from Rutgers. Her research aims to understand the relationship between childhood contexts – primarily experiences of economic and housing hardship and exposure to proximate neighborhood conditions – and adolescent well-being and how policies may serve as levers to mitigate potentially adverse conditions.

In this seminar, Pachman will give a brief overview of the Future of Families and Child Well-being Study, a longitudinal birth cohort study that has followed families for nearly a quarter century. She will review available survey and collaborative datasets including biological indicators and medical records. She will also provide a summary of analyses that use these data to examine the physical and mental health of mothers and their children using the various components of the study.

Online via Zoom

Free and open to the public. Advance registration is not required. View the event listing on the NJ ACTS calendar for Zoom access and to view the flyer. For more information, contact Kylie Davidson, senior program coordinator at the Center for Health Services Research, kdavidson@ifh.rutgers.edu.