Stacey Bevan
Bio
Stacey Bevan is a PhD student at Penn Nursing earning a dual degree in Statistics from the Wharton School. She earned a BS in Biology and International Relations from Tufts University. Her research focuses on the early identification of neurodevelopmental differences in childhood, especially Autism Spectrum Disorder, from a sociological and health disparities framework. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to study young children over time in local and international settings, including Central America and China. In Philadelphia, Stacey is a practicing nurse in pediatric psychiatry. She collaborates in research and clinical projects at Penn, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and community partners on nursing interventions that promote wellness for children and their families. She enjoys lecturing on child psychology, global health, and historical contexts of nursing practice. Stacey is a Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics Associate Fellow and member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.
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UPenn Hillman Scholar, Stacey Bevan: Equitable Paid Family Leave demands better legislation
President Biden’s Build Back Better Framework, currently in the bill stage, introduces major expansions to U.S. social programs, including those created to assist children and their caregivers. The original bill proposed 12 weeks of paid family leave, which affords compensated time off to care for newborn or adopted children and ill family members. However, after heated contention in the House prior to its passing, this provision was ultimately reduced to four weeks.
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Penn Hillman Scholar Investigates the Autism Phenotype in Preschool-aged Children in China
Stacey L Bevan, BS, BSN, RN, is a second-year PhD student writing a mixed-methods dissertation on sociocultural perspectives of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis in pediatric immigrant communities. Stacey was awarded an interdisciplinary grant from the Hillman Scholars Foundation to support her project with the China Jintan Child Cohort study. This grant helped her contextualize the results of her secondary analysis of ASD phenotype in this population-based cohort and plan for dissemination according to Community Based Participatory Research methods. While this project was planned during a complicated time in global health and politics, she was able to appreciate several themes of the work, including recognizing the international platform, engaging with the historical paradigm and developing flexibility in fieldwork.
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Third Annual Story Slam
On Wednesday, February 17, nurses from Penn Nursing and Penn Medicine shared their true, personal stories for Penn Nursing’s third annual Story Slam event.