Cindy Connolly, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Center’s expert on pediatric nursing history, was recently featured in a video posted on the ADVANCEWEB Executive Insight Website.   The Seashore house was established near Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1872 as a rehabilitative treatment facility for children.  Today, the Seashore House is located at the site of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.  

Dr. Connolly is a well-known nurse historian whose research focuses on the history of children’s health care. Dr. Connolly also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of the History and Sociology of Science. Dr. Connolly’s research analyzes the forces that have shaped children’s health care delivery and family policy in the United States.  Her research on children and the tuberculosis preventorium was published in 2008 in her award-winning book:  Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909–1970.   Her current Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded project, A Prescription for Healthy Childhood: A History of Children and Pharmaceuticals in the United States, addresses policy debates surrounding pharmaceuticals for children since World War II including: debates about use, testing,  advertising, and regulation of pharmaceuticals for children; how ideas about children’s “best interests” shifted over time and shaped health policy; and how politics and legislative and regulatory choices led to reforms with both intended and unintended consequences. 

To view the video, click here.