Penn Integrates Knowledge Professors

PIK Professor Lynn Meskell, also of the Penn Museum, joins a radio conversation to discuss how the World Heritage Convention has become a victim of its own success.

PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel applauds President Biden’s choice of Renee Wegrzyn as new head of ARPA-H, though he hopes Wegrzyn will keep the agency prioritized on health over medicine.

PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton says that the digital trail of evidence left by violent criminals needs study, resources, and intervention to avoid exacerbating community trauma and damaging mental health, especially for people of color.

In a Q&A, PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel discusses the nation’s new attitude towards COVID-19 and explains what’s known about long COVID.

A profile on PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts explores her past work detailing the criminalization of pregnancy, 25 years before the demise of Roe v. Wade.

PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts discusses the release of her book “Torn Apart,” which argues that the nation’s child welfare system deprives Black families of fundamental rights and should be dismantled.

In a Q&A, PIK Professor Dolores Albarracín discusses a report in which she calls for K-12 education to depoliticize health issues, promote health equity and disease prevention, and provide information about navigating the health care system.

PIK Professor and Vice Provost for Penn Global Ezekiel Emanuel says Fauci and the role he is leaving require someone able to translate science for the public and policy makers.

PIK Professor Dorothy Roberts says that today’s Black maternal health disparities are a reverberation of slavery, an echo of the federally funded health care and welfare programs which led to sterilization abuse.

A report co-authored by PIK Professor Karen Glanz weighs the negative environmental effects of UV filters against their positive impact on human health.