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In Q&A, Allison Hoffman discusses challenges to the Affordable Care Act
Penn Law professor Allison Hoffman explains the current legal challenges to various provisions of the ACA, and the embattled health care legislation’s future prospects.
Twelve Penn researchers receive 2019 LDI pilot grants
TheLeonard Davis Institute of Health Economics has awarded twelve 2019 small grants to teams led by LDI Senior and Associate Fellows engaged in health services research.
Steven Mills and Greta Wiessner win 2019 Keedy Cup
Steven Mills and Greta Wiessner ere named the winners of this year’s Edwin R. Keedy Cup, Penn Law’s internal moot court competition, and Wiessner was named Best Oralist.
Two Penn Nursing students selected for competitive National Clinician Scholars Program
Current Ph.D. candidates Shoshana Aronowitz and Amanda Bettencourt will be part of a program that works to cultivate health equity, eliminate health disparities, and achieve higher quality health care at lower cost by training nurse and physician researchers who work as leaders and collaborators embedded in communities, healthcare systems, government, and foundations in the United States and around the world.
At Perry World House, PennDesign students learn to influence policy
Students in the School of Design can take the tools of design to make things better for people and, through a collaboration with Perry World House, apply these ideas to real life, to understand the approaches, the strategies in creating policy.
Wharton dean Geoffrey Garrett offers a concise guide to the evolving situation, “using as little Brexit jargon as possible” and lays out four possible outcomes of a full Brexit deal, no deal, a revoking of the Brexit article entirely, or an extension.
U.S. Senator Chris Coons and Wharton's Eric Orts and Bernard David, senior fellow with Wharton’s Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership, discuss why a carbon tax would help the environment and the economy.
Generation Z is arriving, and they are different than previous generations—or at least that’s how this young cohort is being portrayed as it begins to enter the workforce. Wharton assistant management professor Stephanie Creary argues that while generational categories might help us to understand commonalities, we need to steer clear of bias, and allow for a multitude of identities.
Why deaths continue to rise in the opioid epidemic?
Late last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that more than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2017, a 9.6% increase from 2016. To combat this, policies can focus on reducing the demand for opioids—by improving access to medication-assisted treatment—or reducing the supply of opioids—by increased monitoring and regulation of opioid prescribing.