Through
4/26
LDI fellows are working with local communities to increase PrEP use through improving the message about the drug, reducing stigma, and normalizing the conversation about HIV infection.
A study co-authored by Penn Nursing’s Jacqueline Nikpour and J. Margo Brooks Carthon finds nurses in primary care face burnout and poor work environments, especially in low-income clinics.
The first-ever county-level study of excess mortality in the United States shows monthly excess deaths spread from large cities to rural counties in the second year of the pandemic.
Using different baseline lung function for Black and white patients leads to lower rates of diagnosis in Black patients, say Penn LDI fellows.
New Penn Medicine research shows how AUD diagnoses differ among veterans, given evidence that exposure to trauma, including combat, is a risk factor.
A first-of-its kind study from Penn LDI reveals that Black and Hispanic patients are described negatively, and have shorter visits.
The School of Arts & Sciences’ Irma Elo and Samuel Preston, with a collaborative team of researchers, assessed racial disparities in U.S. COVID-19 deaths, calling for continued efforts to better understand and implement targeted strategies for addressing health inequalities.
Sonja Dümpelmann, professor of landscape architecture, explores ‘the reciprocal relationship’ between humans and their environments.
The Penn GSE professor studies how policies that are supposed to be race-neutral, like school funding formulas, truancy policy, or special education, end up failing marginalized groups, and urges a look at the results of past policies to better inform moving forward.
Despite hopeful signs that this demographic is returning to work, certain female-dominated sectors, like the care economy, still haven’t recovered, signaling there’s more to learn about COVID-19’s full effect.
The Wharton School surveyed more than 17,000 people worldwide to rank the best countries in the world based on quality of life.
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The Perelman School of Medicine’s Sameed Khatana is quoted on statistics that show a large number of deaths that do occur during heatwaves or extreme heat are among people who are experiencing homelessness.
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Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice explains that most of the migration that occurs for people who are homeless happens on a regional scale.
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An article by Paula Fomby of the School of Arts & Sciences discusses how a more centralized approach to record keeping in the U.S. could facilitate rapid turnaround of statistics and ensure that public agencies have more complete information about their populations.
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Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice is quoted on alternative approaches to homelessness.
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Akira Drake Rodriguez of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design says Black women are evicted more than any other group in the U.S., and housing insecurity is becoming a growing crisis.
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