Stacey L. Bevan, BSN, MA
Bio
Stacey Bevan is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a Hillman Scholar of Nursing Innovation and Institute of Education Sciences Fellow. Her research lies at the intersection of health equity, disability, and immigration. Her dissertation explores how immigrant families experience their young children’s development in the context of US clinical and educational settings. Stacey is especially interested in structural disparities sensitive to health policy changes benefiting children and families. Supported by a National Institute of Mental Health R-36 award, her work improves equitable access to mental healthcare in this population.
Interdisciplinary approaches are central to Stacey’s scholarship. She has collaborated with researchers across Penn, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, MDRC social policy institute, and various international partnerships. Stacey is a bilingual public health nurse who maintains a Philadelphia clinical practice supporting Spanish-speaking families. Stacey holds a BS in Biology and International Relations from Tufts University. Since beginning her studies at Penn, she has earned a BSN from the School of Nursing and an MA in Statistics from Wharton Business School. 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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Stacey Bevan Accepted Into Predoctoral Training Program in Interdisciplinary Methods for Field-based Research in Education
Stacey Bevan will be one of four fellows starting in the Predoctoral Training Program in Interdisciplinary Methods for Field-based Research in Education this fall. In this program she will hone her skills in conducting research that will inform education policy.