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  • Cardiovascular disease in American Indian and Alaska Native populations reflects grave health disparities

    Indigenous populations have the lowest life expectancy of all racial groups and experience disproportionate burdens for chronic conditions like cardiovascular disease. To evaluate these disparities, LDI senior fellows Lauren A. Eberly, Sameed Ahmed M. Khatana, Judy A. Shea, Peter W. Groeneveld, and colleagues used Medicare administrative data and the Distressed Communities Index to assess trends in the incidence and prevalence of cardiovascular disease among American Indian and Alaska Native Medicare beneficiaries

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Featured Books and DVDs: Native American heritage

    For this month’s selections, the Penn Libraries partnered with Penn Native Community Council, which was formed in 2018 to highlight the histories, heritage, and cultures of the Native American, First Nations, and Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →

  • Penn Medicine receives $5M grant to study next generation of dementia treatments

    Penn physicians and scientists will lead studies on underlying mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias with a grant from the Delaware Community Foundation.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Penn among education partners in Mid-Atlantic Clean Hydrogen Hub (MACH2) to advance clean energy

    The University of Pennsylvania will serve as an education partner in support of workforce development efforts MACH2, a partnership that will receive up to $750 million in U.S. Department of Energy funding through the historic Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs program.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Grace Sanders Johnson earns honor for ‘White Gloves, Black Nation’

    The associate professor of Africana Studies has won the 2023 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize for “White Gloves, Black Nation: Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti,” which examines the political life of women in Haiti during and after the U.S. occupied the country, from 1915 to 1934.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →

  • Penn Medicine’s Lisa Bellini receives Association of American Medical Colleges’ Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award

    The senior vice dean for Academic Affairs and a professor of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care in the Perelman School of Medicine has been selected as one of four recipients of the 2023 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award by the Association of American Medical Colleges.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Supporting the well-being of LGBTQ+ adolescents and their families

    Penn Nursing’s Dalmacio Dennis Flores, assistant professor of nursing in the Department of Family and Community Health, has been awarded a 2023 grant from the Hillman Innovations in Care program. The $600,000 grant will be used to expand a Penn Nursing-led program that supports the well-being of LGBTQ+ adolescents and their families.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • Oxford publishes guides for parents of adolescents with bipolar disorder and depression

    The books “If Your Adolescent Has Bipolar Disorder” and “If Your Adolescent Has Depression” are the newest in a collection of informative and authoritative guides for parents to understand and help teens with a variety of adolescent mental health conditions.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →

  • LGBTQ teens nearly twice as likely to vape marijuana as their peers

    High schoolers who identify as LGBTQ are at greater risk of vaping cannabis than their heterosexual peers, according to research from Annenberg School for Communication professor Andy Tan and colleagues.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • Penn Medicine researchers receive $10M grant for preventing breast cancer recurrence

    A research team from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center has received the grant for cancer research to target dormant tumor cells before they can cause a recurrence of the disease.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →