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Honing cultural humility skills can improve health care as a whole

At Penn Medicine, medical personnel are adopting cultural humility as an ongoing process of developing a set of skills to approach any individual from any culture at any time.

Marquee outside the Theatre of Living Arts that reads PENN MEDICINE COVID-19 VACCINES NO WALKUPS with masked people standing on sidewalk outside.

Pennsylvania Hospital’s unusual venue brings the celebration to vaccination

When Pennsylvania Hospital leadership began looking for a neighborhood site where they could set up a COVID-19 vaccine clinic, they found an enthusiastic partner at the Theatre of Living Arts.

A Zoom video event shows man in a traditional African print shirt with the words "Penn Africa Research Symposium" on the background behind him, as six participants are seen in video images on the right side of the screen, stacked vertically.

Game-changing gift announced at inaugural Penn Africa Research Symposium

The $5 million gift creates the Holman Africa Initiative, expanding financial aid and enhancing opportunities for faculty and students to engage in research and teaching in and on Africa.

Rowhouses in Philadelphia’s Parkside neighborhood.

Planning a greener future for Philadelphia’s historic Parkside neighborhood

This spring, students from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the Weitzman School consulted with the Centennial Parkside Community Development Corporation on ways to expand a community garden in the East Parkside neighborhood of West Philadelphia.

Cartoon drawing of an adult reading a book to two children in a library.

Building an illustrated children’s book collection with the community

The “Mirrors Collection,” curated by Penn students, is a list of illustrated children’s books chosen and reviewed especially for Philadelphia School District libraries and their diverse student populations.

Eugenia South standing in a wooded area with arms folded surrounded by tree branches.

Guiding emergency medicine toward a North Star of racial justice

Eugenia South, an assistant professor of emergency medicine and vice chair for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Emergency Medicine, highlights the need to connect and act in support of equity and inclusion on many fronts.

Reviving Philadelphia’s nighttime economy

Even before COVID-19 curtailed public nightlife in Philadelphia, members of the Weitzman School’s PennPraxis have been working on a civic engagement project to articulate a better, more progressive Philly nightlife.

A masked health care worker give a vaccine to a person in the upper arm who is wearing a face mask.

Vaccine house calls bring COVID protection home

In an effort to reach residents who are elderly or disabled, Penn Medicine has put its COVID-19 vaccination efforts on wheels, taking shots directly to patients’ homes.

Portraits of Penn seniors Christina Miranda (left) and Amanda Moreno in the College of Arts and Sciences

Penn seniors target eating disorder risk at Philadelphia public high schools

President’s Engagement Prize-winning project Be Body Positive Philly, led by seniors Christina Miranda and Amanda Moreno, is designed to address eating disorder risk among Philadelphia high school students.

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Fighting poverty with cash

Amy Castro Baker has helped deliver promising data out of Stockton, California, about the effects of giving people no-strings-attached money every month. Now boosted by a new research center at Penn that she’ll colead, more cities are jumping on board.

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