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Health Care Policy
Who, What, Why: Taussia Boadi on trauma and Black maternal health
The fourth-year sociology major’s research looks at the relationship between adverse childhood experiences, birth outcomes, and resilience in Black women.
Patients in nursing homes after hospitalization have better outcomes at specialized facilities
A new study by LDI associate fellow Zachary S. Templeton and LDI executive director Rachel M. Werner finds that death and readmission rates are lower but stays are longer and Medicare costs are higher.
Julia Ognibene shadows doctors in Italy
Julia Ognibene spent the summer connecting with family and shadowing doctors in Italy
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.
Fellowship in South Korea offers language benefits, cultural reconnection
Third-year student Claire Jun used her FLAS fellowship this summer to participate in the study abroad program at Yonsei University and a health-policy internship at the National Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service.
The nursing burnout crisis is also happening in primary care
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.
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.
Hospital understaffing and poor work conditions associated with burnout
A new study from Penn’s School of Nursing finds that physicians and nurses experienced adverse outcomes during the pandemic and want significant improvements in their work environments and in patient safety.
‘Communities for Childbirth’ in action
President Engagement Prize winner and fourth-year Seungwon ‘Lucy’ Lee is creating a coordinated referral system of first responders, emergency dispatchers, and systemized hospital networks to improve emergency maternal health care in Uganda.
Symposium highlights breadth and depth of Penn Global research
The Penn Global Research and Engagement Fund is supporting the 19 new faculty-led projects that span research, capacity-building, and development efforts across Africa, Latin America, India, China, and beyond.
In the News
ALS drug fails large clinical trial and may be withdrawn from market
Holly Fernandez Lynch of the Perelman School of Medicine says that the lack of good treatment options for ALS has led to an insatiable desire to develop something that is going to modify the course of this disease.
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Most Americans flunk when it comes to retirement literacy, study finds
Rachel M. Werner of the Leonard Davis Institute, Wharton School, and Perelman School of Medicine says that the U.S. lacks any sort of comprehensive approach to funding for long-term care.
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After his wife died, he joined nurses to push for new staffing rules in hospitals
Karen Lasater of the School of Nursing and Leonard Davis Institute says that the nursing shortage crisis is rooted in unsafe staffing ratios at hospitals.
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Can kidney dialysis be done at home? We can make treatment more accessible, so why aren't we?
In a co-authored Op-Ed, Yuvaram Reddy of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Leonard Davis Institute identifies medical efforts to improve access to home kidney dialysis, such as Joel Glickman’s Home Dialysis University.
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Tyson Foods drops CVS for upstart pharmacy benefit manager, as industry upheaval over cost concerns spreads
Lawton Robert Burns of the Wharton School isn’t convinced that the movement toward greater price transparency will be a magic bullet that brings down drug prices.
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Health systems want tech to make work ‘more human’
Penn Medicine CEO Kevin Mahoney says that one of his most exciting challenges in the next year will be integrating technology to streamline care and improve experiences for patients and providers.
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