Additionally, she holds senior fellow posts at Penn within the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. Dr. Connolly’s scholarly work has focused on analyzing the forces that have shaped children’s health care delivery and family policy in the United States. Her National Library of Medicine-funded research on children and tuberculosis was published in her award-winning book, Saving Sickly Children: The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909–1970.