In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Penn Medical Communication Research Institute (PMCRI) is a new collaboration between the Annenberg School for Communication and Perelman School of Medicine aiming to find out how to reduce medical misinformation. PMCRI is supporting research that helps determine how patients, especially those in vulnerable groups, can best access reliable, effective information.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg School for Communication →
The Penn LDI associate fellow and MD candidate at the Perelman School of Medicine has been named a winner of the CellPress and Cell Signaling Technology’s Rising Black Scientist Award, designed to spotlight emerging Black scientists, break down barriers, and provide funding support for professional development, according to CellPress’ Academic Advisory Board.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Chester County Hospital is employing a number of strategic plans meant to heighten awareness of the qualities of physical and mental health and improve access to health care among its communities that have traditionally been underserved, like the Latinx community. Offering Spanish versions of popular diabetes programs for the first time is one of these new offerings.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
This spring, the Center for Public Art and Space at Weitzman will be hosting renowned writer, artist, and educator Ashon Crawley as its 2022 visiting scholar artist. Crawley’s work explores the intersection of performance, blackness, queerness, and spirituality.
FULL STORY AT Weitzman School of Design →
Telemedicine surged with the COVID-19 pandemic. But does offering care by phone or video improve or worsen disparities? Two studies show that the big gains in follow-up appointments occurred among Black patients—an increase from 52% to 70% —which erased disparities in attendance rates at post-discharge primary care visits. There were no changes in appointment attendance rates among white patients. The results suggest the potential of telemedicine to reduce disparities, possibly through eliminating travel to appointments, which can be difficult after a hospital stay.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Annenberg Classroom, a project of the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, offers five films for Black History Month in partnership with The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
Wharton’s Hummy Song talks about how hospitals can leverage technology in their operational decision-making.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
From the first three young Black men who enrolled at Penn in 1879, to Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander’s historic achievement in becoming one of the first three African American women to earn a Ph.D. in the United States in 1921, to each year’s winners of the Makuu senior awards, Black excellence holds a strong legacy at Penn that continues today. In honor of Black History Month, this month’s display of featured books and DVDs offers options to explore stories from Black writers.
FULL STORY AT Penn Libraries →
The Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation in the Department of Bioengineering conducts research at the interface of biomaterials science, drug delivery, and cellular and molecular bioengineering to fundamentally understand and therapeutically target biological barriers. He is recognized by the Society for Biomaterials for his development of the first nanoparticle RNAi therapy to treat multiple myeloma, an incurable hematologic cancer that colonizes in bone marrow.
FULL STORY AT Penn Engineering Today →
According to January survey data from the Annenberg Public Policy Center, confidence that the CDC is providing the public with trustworthy information about the means of preventing and treating Covid-19 fell from 77% only two months ago, in November 2021, to 72% in January 2022.
FULL STORY AT Annenberg Public Policy Center →
