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Increasing minimum wage has positive effects on employment
A fast food kitchen employee holding two hot dogs.

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Increasing minimum wage has positive effects on employment

The results of a new study from Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice applies to the fast-food sector and the entire low-wage labor market.

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National Academy of Medicine elects five new members from Penn 
Top row, from left to right: Kurt Thomas Barnhart, Christopher B. Forrest, and Susan L. Furth. Bottom row, left to right: Desmond Upton Patton and Robert H. Vonderheide.

Top row, from left to right: Kurt Thomas Barnhart, Christopher B. Forrest, and Susan L. Furth. Bottom row, left to right: Desmond Upton Patton and Robert H. Vonderheide.

(Images: Courtesy of Penn Medicine; Desmond Patton image by Eric Sucar)

National Academy of Medicine elects five new members from Penn 

Kurt T. Barnhart, Christopher B. Forrest, Susan L. Furth, Desmond Upton Patton, and Robert H. Vonderheide are among 100 new Academy members elected this year, one of the highest honors in health and medicine.
Working to understand and prevent intimate partner violence
Millan AbiNader presenting next to a screen.

Assistant Professor of Social Work Millan AbiNader.

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Working to understand and prevent intimate partner violence

Millan AbiNader, an assistant professor in Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice, explains how she approaches social work as a “macro” social worker, and the importance of community and connection in addressing structural factors and social ecology of gender-based violence.

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Deans of health schools discuss climate change in their fields
Deans sit on Climate Week panel.

Kathy D. Morrison, faculty lead for the Environmental Innovations Initiative; Andrew M. Hoffman, dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine; Antonia M. Villarruel, dean of the School of Nursing; Farah Hussain, representing the dean of the Perelman School of Medicine; Sara S. Bachman, dean of School of Social Policy and Practice; Mark Wolff, dean of the School of Dental Medicine; and Julian Fisher, director of Oral and Planetary Health Policies in Penn Dental, sit onstage for a Climate Week discussion on climate and health.

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Deans of health schools discuss climate change in their fields

Deans and leaders from the schools of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Dental Medicine, Nursing, and Social Policy & Practice discussed climate and health at a Climate Week event.
Can the COVID playbook help end malaria?
A Perry World House forum at the University of Pennsylvania discusses how lessons from COVID-19 can impact the fight to end malaria

A Sept. 12 Perry World House event, Can the COVID Playbook Help End Malaria?, looked at the historic fight against this disease, along with new developments in mRNA vaccine technologies and lessons learned from the global COVID-19 pandemic.

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Can the COVID playbook help end malaria?

In a Perry World House conversation, Matthew Laurens, Martina Mchenga, and Drew Weissman discussed how lessons from a global pandemic could help in the fight to eradicate malaria.

Kristina García

Green energy transition may leave some workers behind
A worker inside a windmill.

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Green energy transition may leave some workers behind

New research from Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice shows both potential and unequal opportunities in the green jobs market.

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Health capabilities, explained
A busy street in Taipei, Taiwan, with people driving, biking, and walking

Health capabilities are a reflection of both individual and societal circumstances, says Jennifer J. Prah. 

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Health capabilities, explained

Jennifer J. Prah of the School of Social Policy & Practice has developed a method for assessing the individual and collective ability to be healthy.

Kristina García

Social scientists must address ChatGPT’s ethical challenges before using it for research
An AI chatbot selects an option from a screen.

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Social scientists must address ChatGPT’s ethical challenges before using it for research

Outlining challenges that ChatGPT pose, researchers from Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice and Annenberg School for Communication have written recommendations in five areas for ethical use of the technology in a new paper.

Juliana Rosati

Desmond Patton and the science of being human
Desmond Patton stands with arms crossed in front of a window, which mirrors his image

“Open-mindedness never stops, that growth in terms of becoming open never stops and cannot stop. That has become a critical value that I hold, that that this learning is never over,” Patton says.

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Desmond Patton and the science of being human

Penn Integrates Knowledge University professor Desmond Upton Patton discusses his research in social media and violence, finding an interdisciplinary career in social work, communication, data science, and psychiatry, and why his open-mindedness never stops.

Kristina García