In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
LDI’s Atheendar Venkataramani and Rachel Werner held the third “Experts at Home” virtual seminar, which explored the likely health consequences of the coronavirus-driven economic downturn.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Yong Chen and Pamela Shaw, both associate professors of biostatistics, have been named Fellows of the American Statistical Association, the field’s largest and most prestigious professional organization in the United States.
FULL STORY AT Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics →
Many observers have drawn comparisons between climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, the response to the pandemic has been so swift that it actually generated a debate about the appropriate balance between shutting down infections and restarting the economy. This debate has exposed a simple truth: a healthy economy relies on a healthy population.
FULL STORY AT Kleinman Center →
Tariq Thachil has been named director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) and associate professor of political science, effective July 1, 2020.
FULL STORY AT Penn Arts & Sciences →
During the COVID-19 crisis, breastfeeding and the provision of human milk to infants is recommended by national and international organizations because it is effective against infectious diseases.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
The course offers online training in best practices for telehealth, including an overview of the field of telemedicine and telehealth, the history of the field, types of telehealth applications, and discusses practical considerations such as issues pertaining to licensure, reimbursement, and workflow.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Penn has been named a Tree Campus USA by the Arbor Day Foundation, in recognition for effectively managing the campus trees.
FULL STORY AT Penn Sustainability →
Penn Memory Center co-director Jason Karlawish joined a panel of national experts to discuss the benefits and harms of social distancing, its potential mental health effects, and what relaxation measures would eventually look like as a part of a webinar series form the American Public Health Association and the National Academy of Medicine.
FULL STORY AT Penn Memory Center →
The Center for Health Economics and Behavioral Economics faculty and staff have been busy working on a variety of projects to help patients, clinicians, and health systems during the COVID-19 pandemic, including a chatbot for FAQs, a COVID-19 watch monitoring program, and a pregnancy watch.
FULL STORY AT Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics →
The associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering has been named director of the Penn Institute of Computational Science, a cross-disciplinary institute for the advancement, integration, and support of Penn research via the tools and techniques of high-performance computing.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering →
