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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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PIK Professor Dolores Albarracín, Jess Fishman, and Andy Tan, all of the Leonard Davis Institute, wrote an op-ed about the efficacy of vaccine mandates. “Regulations can promote behaviors that benefit society and, in so doing, also may instill social norms to do the right thing,” they wrote.
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Courtney E. Boen of the School of Arts & Sciences co-authored an opinion piece calling for “effective prevention policies to prevent any more child illnesses, hospitalizations, and possible child deaths” amid the spread of the Delta variant. “The greatest challenge we face is a lack of federal leadership and political will to act,” Boen and her co-author wrote.
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Damon Centola of the Annenberg School for Communication wrote an opinion piece about the best strategies for promoting COVID-19 vaccination. “It takes time to digest an idea with substance to it; it takes repeatedly seeing an idea successfully adopted by others for it to be accepted, take hold and become a norm, and that kind of messaging is most effective when an idea works its way from the outside in,” he said.
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Marci Hamilton of the School of Arts & Sciences wrote an opinion piece about the Child Athlete Bill of Rights, a new set of proposed policies to protect young athletes from sexual abuse. The document is “grounded in a simple message: Every child has the right to be safe.”
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Susan Coffin and Sage Myers of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia wrote an opinion piece about unvaccinated children’s vulnerability to the COVID-19 delta variant. They called for adults to continue wearing masks in risky environments, saying, “allowing even one child to become severely ill is too many if it can be prevented with simple measures.”
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Laura Perna of the Graduate School of Education wrote an opinion piece about students’ need for transparency about the true cost of college, not just the sticker price.
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Dan Romer and Patrick Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center argue that the U.S. should fund further research on how depictions of guns violence in entertainment media affect off-screen gun violence. “One might argue that seeing cigarette use is not morally objectionable and so it’s more likely to be imitated by adolescents the more it’s seen in use by appealing characters on the screen,” they write. “But the same is true for guns, when they are used by appealing characters for seemingly justified reasons.”
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Dean J. Larry Jameson of the Perelman School of Medicine and others wrote about the importance of restarting research paused due to the pandemic.
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Harvey Rubin of the Perelman School of Medicine co-wrote an op-ed about the structural changes needed to prepare society for future pandemics. “The currently inefficient international regime for infectious disease control requires a new overarching structure that will harmonize, integrate, and coordinate the existing relevant legal structures that deal with infectious disease issues,” they wrote.
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Carolyn Kousky of the Wharton School wrote an op-ed about helping at-risk households who can’t afford flood insurance by adopting a means-tested disaster insurance program for those in need. “Climate change is escalating flood risk around the country,” she wrote. “Failure to update pricing, though, effectively hides this risk from the market and limits financial incentives for risk reduction.”