Dipesh Navsaria MPH, MSLIS, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Clinical Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, School of Human Ecology, UW-Madison, Madison, WisconsinDr. Dipesh Navsaria is a pediatrician working in the public interest. He blends the roles of physician, occasional children's librarian, educator, public health professional, and child health advocate. With graduate degrees in public health, children's librarianship, physician assistant studies, and medicine, he brings a unique combination of interests and experience together.
Committed to understanding how basic science can translate into busy primary-care settings via population health concepts and policy initiatives, Dr. Navsaria aims to educate the next generation of those who work with children and families in realizing how their professional roles include being involved in larger concepts of social policy and how they may affect the cognitive and socioemotional development of children for their future benefit.
Disclosures
- Consulting pediatrician: Pediatrics Supporting Parents Initiative
- Board of directors: Reach Out and Read National Center
- Founding medical director: Reach Out and Read Wisconsin
- Board of directors: Parents as Teachers
Recent Contributions to PracticeUpdate:
- Contact Tracing During Coronavirus Disease Outbreak, South Korea, 2020
- COVID-19 in Children and the Dynamics of Infection in Families
- COVID-19 in Children and Adolescents in Europe
- News Monitoring, Social Distancing, Disinfecting, and Hoarding Behaviors Among US Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Stress Associated With Mothers’ and Fathers’ Media Parenting Practices
- Genomewide Association Study of Severe COVID-19 With Respiratory Failure
- Public Opinion on the Sale of Crib Bumpers
- Community Use of Face Masks and COVID-19
- Trajectories of Picky Eating in Low-Income US Children
- Cell Phone Use Policies in US Middle and High Schools