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A partnership to help fight COVID and develop a STEM career pipeline
lab tech performing covid tests

Vanessa Dicks, a Penn Medicine laboratory assistant who was hired through WPSI, prepares a sample to be tested for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

A partnership to help fight COVID and develop a STEM career pipeline

Working with the West Philadelphia Skills Initiative, University City District’s workforce development program, Penn Medicine is creating pathways to science careers for local jobseekers.

Lauren Ingeno

Logistics of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout
nurse holding the covid vaccine against blue background

A nurse holds a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, a mRNA-based vaccine approved for emergency use by the FDA in December.

Logistics of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout

Penn experts demystify the process of shipping a vaccine and, ultimately, getting it into arms.
How can the world allocate COVID-19 vaccines fairly?
Hands holding a box of COVID vaccine vials.

How can the world allocate COVID-19 vaccines fairly?

It’s an ethical question many Penn experts are contemplating. One fact is certain, they say: Distribution must not exacerbate disparities and inequities in health care.