Stacey L. Bevan, BS, BSN, RN
Bio
Stacey Bevan is a predoctoral scholar and Hillman Scholar of Nursing Innovation at Penn Nursing and is dually enrolled in a Master’s of Statistics program at Wharton School of Buisness. She completed a Bachelors of Science in Biology and International Relations at Tufts University in 2015. Stacey is a practicing nurse in pediatric psychiatry and child-maternal public health in Philadelphia. She has also completed clinical research fellowships in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Minority Health and Health Disparities at the University of Miami School of Nursing. Stacey’s research interests lie at the intersection of pediatric developmental-behavioral conditions, health equity and global migratory processes. Her dissertation explores early identification of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Hispanic immigrant children. Other projects investigate disability in carceral systems, health policy implications of indigenous food sovereignty, longitudinal child environmental exposures, quality improvement in surgical care and psychometric properties of translated clinical instruments. Stacey is committed to disseminating research findings through teaching and public scholarship.
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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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