In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency has awarded grants to three community violence prevention and intervention programs across Penn Medicine: The School District of Philadelphia’s Safe Path to School Program, the Penn Trauma Violence Recovery Program, and the Prolonged Exposure to Address Community Violence (PEACE) Project.
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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.
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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.
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The new Penn Achilles Tendinopathy Center of Research Translation seeks to build insights that lead to better treatment of Achilles tendon injuries.
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CAR T cell therapy can be reworked to treat a form of the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis according to a preclinical study from the Perelman School of Medicine.
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LDI senior fellow Margo Brooks Carthon discusses her team’s expansion of the hospital post-discharge safety net program that grew out of their research. The original program originated from a 2018 pilot research grant from Penn LDI, Penn Medicine’s Center for Health Care Innovation, and Penn Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research.
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CAREs awarded $5,000 to HopePHL as the Annual CAREs Community Champion and funded additional 27 employee-backed community initiatives. The Penn Medicine CAREs program supports a variety of community service efforts led by the people of Penn Medicine, including efforts to expand community access to medical care.
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Under new leadership with Penn Medicine’s Kit Delgado, the Nudge Unit focuses on designing slight pushes that help people make better, healthier, or just more-optimal decisions has helped increase exercise, improve prescription practices, and improve health screening rates.
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Penn Medicine will allot portions of the grant to four other institutions to collectively create state-of-the-art online courses for genetic counselors. This grant will position genetic counselors to advance research for implementing genomic information into clinical practice.
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The new Penn Medicine program offers education and employment opportunities to high school students interested in nursing careers.
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