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Bringing together passions for nursing, community, and policy
Charlotte Brown in front of historic nursing photo display.

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Bringing together passions for nursing, community, and policy

Charlotte Brown recalls a childhood climbing up and falling out of trees, picking blueberries in the mountains and currants in the woods, and paddling down her backyard creek on snow sleds with her three younger brothers—“lots of just being outside, being happy, being rained on,” she says.

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Who, What, Why: Medical student Bayan Galal aims to tackle global health challenges
A smiling woman stands facing the camera with her arms crossed. She is standing in front of a glass-fronted row of offices with a glass railing in front of her. She is wearing a white coat and maroon head covering.

Bayan Galal, a first-year medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine and a graduate associate at Perry World House, is looking to blend a medical career with a concentration in global health.

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  • Who, What, Why

    • Who, What, Why: Medical student Bayan Galal aims to tackle global health challenges

    The first-year Penn Medicine student and graduate associate at Perry World House draws her inspiration from her family’s lived experience.
    Perry World House student fellows explore global policy solutions
    A group of students sits around a rectangular table in a discussion. A man stands next to a pad of paper on an easel preparing to take notes.

    A team of Perry World House Student Fellows discuss actions and policies during the 2024 crisis simulation at Perry World House, facilitated by Tom Ellison (standing), deputy director of the Center for Climate and Security at the Council on Strategic Risks.

    (Image: Courtesy of Perry World House)

    Perry World House student fellows explore global policy solutions

    Through global trips and weekly seminars, the program centers students’ interests in global policy to help solve real-world problems, and the students gain one-of-a-kind experience along the way.
    Forum addresses foreign policy priorities for the U.S.
    Three people sit in chairs on a stage in front of a Perry World House logo. The person in the middle is talking with a hand-held microphone.

    From left, Perry World House panelists Erin Sikorsky, Hussein Banai and Alexander Vershbow at a forum on foreign policy priorities for the incoming administration.

    (Image: Gabrielle Szczepanek)

    Forum addresses foreign policy priorities for the U.S.

    Experts offered predictions and insights for leaders in the incoming administration at a Perry World House forum.
    White House national climate advisor talks Inflation Reduction Act results and reasons for hope
    Ali Zaidi (right) and Justin Worland in discussion at Perry World House.

    White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi (right) and senior correspondent at Time magazine Justin Worland in discussion at Perry World House.

    (Image: Gabby Szczepanek/Perry World House)

    White House national climate advisor talks Inflation Reduction Act results and reasons for hope

    In a fireside chat at Penn, Ali Zaidi talked about the Biden Administration’s climate policy as a throughline to securing global competitiveness and domestic prosperity.
    What comes next for Syria
    A crowd of Syrians gather in an open space. To the right, they are waving a revolutionary flag.

    Syrian citizens wave the revolutionary flag as they celebrate the takeover of the capital Damascus by insurgents.

     (Image: AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

    What comes next for Syria

    Perry World House held a discussion featuring Penn experts to confront the future of Syria after the fall of the Assad regime and what the world can expect.
    Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean showcases University scholarship
    The interior main room of Perry World House, where conference attendees listen to a presentation

    The 7th Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean (PLAC) conference, organized by an interdisciplinary group of faculty, staff, and students, showcased public and community engaged scholarship across the region and its diaspora.

    (Image: Janeth Zaldivar)

    Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean showcases University scholarship

    The seventh Penn in Latin America and the Caribbean conference centered on the theme of “Public and Community Engaged Scholarship in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Its Diaspora.”

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    Michael C. Horowitz returns as director of Perry World House
    Micheal Horowitz.

    Michael Horowitz is the director of Perry World House and Richard Perry Professor in the School of Arts & Sciences’ Department of Political Science.

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    Michael C. Horowitz returns as director of Perry World House

    Horowitz resumed the leadership of Perry World House on August 14, overseeing work on security, defense, and emerging technologies.
    ‘I screwed up’: When is a leader too old to lead?
    Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)

    ‘I screwed up’: When is a leader too old to lead?

    A 2005 survey by Michael Horowitz of Perry World House and the School of Arts & Sciences found that older political leaders were more likely to initiate and intensify military conflicts than their younger peers.