In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Using the pediatric setting as a touch point to support the health of parents is a promising new avenue to combat tobacco use. Research from Penn LDI focuses on overcoming barriers to tap into the potential of pediatric office visits to address parental smoking, with the goal of offering evidence-based treatment to all parents who smoke.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Students in the Urban Teaching Apprenticeship Program spend their summer working with children from three Philadelphia schools providing academic support in reading, math, and art, meeting with the kids and their families at local libraries. The students earn a Master of Science in Education and a Pennsylvania teaching certification.
FULL STORY AT Graduate School of Education →
A Penn Medicine study finds medication therapy based on the hormone glucagon-like peptide-1(GLP-1) may help regulate natural insulin production in cystic fibrosis, potentially offering a better way to prevent and ultimately manage diabetes than daily insulin injections.
FULL STORY AT Penn Medicine News →
Penn Vet has awarded five projects for supporting research investigators to overcome challenges associated with zoonotic infectious diseases of wildlife, domestic animals, and humans.
FULL STORY AT Penn Vet →
Bettencourt is an assistant professor in Penn Nursing’s Department of Family and Community Health. “The future of nursing and health care is unknown, and the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a newfound urgency for us to work together to find solutions to both long- standing issues and new challenges,” she says.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Penn Arts & Sciences has awarded three Klein Family Social Justice grants to these faculty-led projects: Personalized, Accelerated Science Learning, led by Lori Flanagan-Cato, an associate professor of psychology; Free State Slavery and Bound Labor: Pennsylvania, led by Sarah Barringer Gordon, a professor of history and the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law, and Kathleen Brown, the David Boies Professor of History; and Kitchen Science: A Platform for Inclusive and Accessible Outreach, led by Arnold Mathijssen, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy.
FULL STORY AT Almanac →
U.S. inflation reached a new 40-year high in June. But if the current economic slowdown gathers pace, the Federal Reserve will likely be less aggressive with the next interest rate increase, according to Wharton experts.
FULL STORY AT Knowledge at Wharton →
APenn Medicine study shows that preventive visits after a complicated pregnancy were associated with a lower risk of complications in subsequent pregnancies, providing evidence on the importance of continuous access to care and extended postpartum Medicaid coverage after pregnancies.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Kimberly Strauch will direct the first-of-its-kind, tuition-free program dedicated to building a nurse practitioner workforce committed to working in and with underserved communities, both rural and urban.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
A new book provides guidance from Penn experts in health care economics and policy research, authored by LDI Fellows. In the book, “Seemed Like a Good Idea: Alchemy versus Evidence-Based Approaches to Health Care Management Innovation”, 11 experts from the Wharton School, Perelman School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia survey the state of evidence for management practices, and find that in opposition to clinical care delivery, the management of care relies on little rigorous evidence.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
