In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Penn’s Center for Health Incentives & Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) is assisting the Pennsylvania Department of Health with COVID Alert PA, a free app designed to help reduce the spread of COVID-19.
FULL STORY AT Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics →
The Stuart Weitzman School of Design has selected Peter Eisenman as the 2020 recipient of the Kanter Tritsch Medal for Excellence in Architecture and Environmental Design, and the City of Philadelphia as the 2020 recipient of the Witte-Sakamoto Family Medal in City and Regional Planning for GreenPlan Philadelphia.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
In a recent World Health Organization Bulletin, Tim Wang, Manu Mathur, and Harald Schmidt, explore the perception of oral health as a nonessential health care service and its subsequent exclusion from conceptions of Universal Health Coverage around the world, and recommend incorporating oral diseases into global and national mainstream efforts to counter noncommunicable diseases.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the start of the academic year for the Class of 2020’s 155 students broke a record as the first virtual kickoff for Penn medical students.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The newly-formed Adolescence, Health, and Addiction (AHA!) Lab, led by Annenberg School assistant professor David Lydon-Staley, will investigate questions around substance use, emotion regulation, and curiosity, with a particular focus on adolescence.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
To commemorate The Review’s first decade of publishing daily regulatory news, analysis, and opinion, leading regulatory scholars and distinguished regulatory leaders reflect on regulatory changes and developments over the past ten years.
FULL STORY AT The Regulatory Review →
The new prediction model now takes into account the type of surgery and can help surgeons determine whether that procedure is safe for individual patients.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Penn GSE’s Jonathan Supovitz and John D’Auria have created Leading Improvement in Challenging Times, a guide and companion video to help leaders collaborate within their districts, schools, and teams to address questions of equity, access, technology, pedagogy, and social-emotional support.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
A study by LDI Senior Fellows finds that, despite the cost of hiring better and more trained nurses, the outcomes far outweigh the cost in terms of patient mortality, avoidable complications, and readmissions.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Eugenia South, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine and an LDI Senior Fellow, plans more action and policy focus with enhanced emphasis on structural racism.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
