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  • Exploring equity barriers before a firearm safety trial

    When evaluating efforts to implement evidence-based interventions, ensuring that implementation is equitable across populations is important, but little guidance has been offered with regard to how to do so within the context of implementation trials. Before launching a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial focused on firearm safety promotion in pediatric primary care, an interdisciplinary research team including investigators from Penn developed a five-step engagement process to prospectively ground the trial in an equity lens.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →

  • How the Learning Enrichment Team is bringing wellness to the Libraries through ‘exploration and serendipity’

    Cultivating spaces and creating programming that address the needs of the whole student is the aim of the Penn Libraries Learning Enrichment team at the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →

  • Pride Alliance celebrates LGBTQ History Month with Pride Celebration

    The Penn Dental Medicine Pride Alliance held its fourth annual Pride Celebration to celebrate its LGBTQIA+ community, and awarded the Annual LGBTQIA+ Advocacy Awards. This year recognized two staff members, two faculty members, and one student for their efforts to support diversity and inclusion within the school

    FULL STORY AT Penn Dental Medicine →

  • OMNIA Q & A: Symposium ethnohistory workshop

    Young scholars from Latin America discuss their experience at a three-week workshop on “Dispossessions in the Americas,” hosted by The Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies.

    FULL STORY AT OMNIA →

  • A. Brooks Bowden receives prestigious Early Career Award for research on education costs

    The The Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Early Career Awards highlight researchers whose work is both rigorous and relevant to educational practice. Bowden, an assistant professor of education policy at Penn GSE, focuses on strategies to overcome obstacles like hunger, housing insecurity, and mental health problems that prevent children from getting the most out of school.

    FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →

  • Improving rates of follow-up care after ED visits for heart failure

    In a recent study, Austin S. Kilaru, LDI senior fellow and assistant professor of emergency medicine found that recommended follow-up care is disturbingly rare for chronically ill heart failure patients following discharge from the emergency department.

    FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →

  • Stroke, clot risk halved for heart disease patients on blood thinners apixaban vs. rivaroxaban

    The new study from Penn Medicine shows apixaban is superior to rivaroxaban against stroke or systemic embolism in patients with atrial fibrillation and valvular heart disease.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • Annenberg and Penn Medicine researchers receive $3M NIH grant to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in HIV care

    Over the next 5 years, the team will explore methods to address structural racism and discrimination in HIV clinics across Philadelphia.

    FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →

  • Penn Medicine CAREs grants fuel community support—from STEM education to Alzheimer’s disease caregiver respite

    The Penn Memory Center’s Weekly Smile Program and its Time Together Program fill a social interaction need for the elderly, while the Lancaster Science Factory provides science, technology, engineering, and math after-school programs. Both of these initiatives are supported by Penn Medicine CAREs grants, along with an additional 28 programs from Penn Medicine employees.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →

  • The Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania Legal Education Fund awarded two Penn Carey Law students scholarships

    The nonprofit organization dedicated to the professional and educational advancement of Latinos in the legal profession awarded the two co-presidents of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Latinx Law Student Association, Chiara Padilla and Michael Asparrin with scholarships.

    FULL STORY AT Penn Carey Law →