‘Audacious’ Study Works to Ensure All Children Thrive

Recently, Kathy Humphrey, Pitt’s senior vice chancellor for engagement and secretary of the Board of Trustees, joined Liz Miller and Felicia Savage Friedman (CGS ’01, EDUC ’07G) virtually to discuss their work in the community and their involvement with the Pittsburgh Study.

The study is a community-partnered initiative to find out what works to help children thrive. Since 2019, the study partners with community members to learn together about child health and thriving and address root causes of inequity. The study develops and tests interventions at different developmental stages and follows children and families in Allegheny County from before birth through high school.

Through the study, Miller, director of adolescent and young adult health and of community health at UPMC Children’s Hospital and its department of pediatrics, and Friedman, founder and CEO of YogaRoots On Location—an anti-racist Raja yoga training business—are also working with their community partners to ask families what life is like in their household during the pandemic.

“We work shoulder to shoulder to bring childhood thriving into the forefront of our life and prayerfully to dispel a lot of the oppression that continues to be so violent with our vulnerable community,” said Friedman. “I’m excited to do this work and bring this anti-racist framework to the Pittsburgh Study and to the University of Pittsburgh.”….

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