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  • Incomplete electronic health records can exacerbate bias in predictive models

    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 →

  • New center will tackle racial disparities in maternal health

    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 →

  • Penn Nursing focuses on achieving equitable primary care

    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 →

  • The brewing backlash over rewards programs

    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 →

  • Supporting advances in LGBTQ+ health startups

    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 →

  • Penn Medicine-Wharton Fund for Health invests in Twentyeight Health to improve reproductive health access

    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 →

  • What will Biden’s income-driven repayment plan cost?

    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 →

  • University award for Penn Nursing professor

    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 →

  • Featured Books and DVDs: Black History Month

    The Penn Libraries collection on display in February are selected by a collaboration among staff from Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center’s Access Services, the Otto E. Albrecht Music Library, and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. This month features newly published works by Black authors and filmmakers.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →

  • How national politics are impacting DEI in the workplace

    In this episode of Leading Diversity at Work, Wharton’s Stephanie Creary and guests explore how major legal and policy decisions, including Florida’s Stop WOKE Act, are affecting diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

    FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →