In brief, what’s happening at Penn—whether it’s across campus or around the world.
Penn’s School of Nursing has received a $1 million grant from the Bedford Falls Foundation, and will support a total of 40 high-merit, high-need students over a four-year period who are enrolled in Penn Nursing’s Master of Professional Nursing degree program.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
Orkin received the third Elaine Redding Brinster Prize in Science or Medicine from Penn’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine for his work discovering the basis for hemoglobin gene switching and developing a therapy for sickle cell disease and other blood diseases.
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Penn Medicine and Penn Engineering are expanding their presence in Wexford’s uCity Square Knowledge Community with a new laboratory space dedicated to novel vaccine, therapeutics, and engineered diagnostics.
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LDI senior fellow Jaya Aysola addresses how to implement an efficient and stable city-wide medical food resource by developing a centralized digital platform designed to reinvent the communication and logistics of medical food delivery.
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Penn Medicine has targeted new ways to recruit early-career nurses, including investing in the new ASPIRE pipeline program that supports local high school and college students interested in the profession.
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About 40 time-limited pilot studies are operating now, mostly in cities—Philadelphia alone is home to six. Strong evidence continues to mount that reducing poverty has a substantial impact on beneficiaries’ state of well-being and even life expectancy. But the public remains skeptical and policymakers have been leery to launch big efforts.
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The assistant professor of family medicine and community health in the Perelman School of Medicine will lead Penn Medicine’s Program for LGBTQ+ Health to address increase access to care, along with quality of care and patient experience, for LGBTQ+ individuals across the health system.
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The seven-year grant funds the creation of an implementation science hub as part of the NIH’s new Maternal Health Research of Centers of Excellence initiative to promote maternal health equity.
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A new study by Seth A. Berkowitz, Guarav Dave, and LDI senior fellow Atheendar Venkataramani explored how the phase-in model of the earned income tax creditcreates a gap in income support for those with limited ability to work, which could create a “poverty-health trap,” where poor health worsens the ability to earn income.
FULL STORY AT Leonard Davis Institute →
Penn’s School of Nursing has named its second cohort of Fellows for the Leonard A. Lauder Community Care Nurse Practitioner Program, and the group is comprised of nursing professionals from across the country who will begin full-time studies towards becoming a primary care nurse practitioner this fall.
FULL STORY AT Penn Nursing News →
