In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Two prominent free-speech experts and Penn GSE professors, Sigal Ben-Porath and Jonathan Zimmerman, have each published new books that explore the current “cancel culture” phenomenon and how it impinges on students’ learning, American culture, and constructive discourse.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
New research by LDI senior fellow Courtney finds that immigrant workers who are naturalized U.S. citizens report less use of health care and greater barriers to treatment, and offers recommendations for how policymakers can improve the health of immigrants.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Electronic health records (EHR) data are often incomplete, creating a significant challenge for researchers, and data gaps may be unequally distributed across patient groups: People with less access to care, often people of color or with lower socioeconomic status, tend to have more incomplete EHRs. A new study from Penn LDI finds that predictive models trained using incomplete EHR data performed poorly for patients with lower access to care.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
The University of Pennsylvania is now home to the inaugural March of Dimes Research Center for Advancing Maternal Health Equity, making it a focal point for maternal health equity research and racial disparity solutions.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Data shows that unless the pattern of furnishing primary health care, particularly to underserved groups in both urban and rural areas, is drastically improved, these groups will suffer in inequitable and unnecessary ways. It is clear that the primary care workforce must be expanded and diversified.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Customers are unhappy when their favorite retailers make it harder to earn rewards, as Starbucks, Dunkin’ and Best Buy have recently done. But firms have to walk a fine line between customer loyalty and profits, says Wharton’s Raghuram Iyengar.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
The Eidos LGBTQ+ Health Initiative at Penn’s School of Nursing is partnering with Gaingels, an LGBTQIA+/Allies private investment syndicate, to provide their portfolio of companies access to Penn’s academic research to make an impact into the health and well-being of LGBTQ+ communities.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
The Fund for Health, a joint initiative of Penn Medicine and the Environmental, Social, and Governance Initiative at the Wharton School is backing Twentyeight Health, which uses its online platform to increase access for women in underserved communities to reproductive health care.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
The Biden administration’s effort to make student loans affordable with the latest Income-Driven Repayment plan will cost the government more than double its estimates, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
Sharon Irving, the Miriam Stirl Endowed Term Chair in Nutrition, Associate Professor of Pediatric Nursing, and Vice-Chair of the Department of Family and Community Health, will be honored with the 2023 Women of Color at Penn Award for faculty in March.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
