About
Dr. Kerry Sease is a graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and completed her training in Pediatrics at Prisma Health-Upstate. After residency, Dr. Sease received her MPH from the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health as well as additional training from the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh through and General Academic Pediatric fellowship. Dr. Sease is a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at the UofSC School of Medicine, Greenville and is also the medical director for the Bradshaw Institute for Community Child Health & Advocacy where she oversees community health initiatives for the Prisma Health Children’s Hospital. Her current work includes Comprehensive School Health Promotion: Increasing community-based healthy eating and physical activity and Community Paramedic intervention for a high-risk pediatric asthma population. Both of these projects are in partnership with Dr. Sarah Griffin from Clemson University.
How their research is transforming health care
Community health research aims to deepen community relationships and partnerships, looking more to community-based participatory research to inform our programming as well as to complete relevant, timely studies that can drive evidence-based decision making within our community and beyond.News and media related to Dr. Sease’s research Medical-Legal Partnership Interventions and Child Development: Cross-sector Partnerships to Address Social Determinants of Health Free Tdap shots help ensure Greenville seventh-graders can start school New school clinics aim to improve the health and future of students.
Health research keywords
community health, pediatric obesity, community based, school health, health promotion, social determinants of health
