Public Health

A study by Catherine McDonald of the School of Nursing and colleagues finds that risky behaviors are relatively common among teen drivers, including handheld cellphone use and speeding.

Marion Leary of the School of Nursing says that frontline health care workers make medical technology more effective when they create it themselves.

Sara Solomon of the Penn Injury Science Center hopes to work with Tyrique Glasgow in the Penn Community Scholars program to replicate his model of collective impact citywide.

John Wherry of the Perelman School of Medicine says that bivalent vaccines are not providing perfect protection from omicron variants.

Katy Milkman of the Wharton School is studying whether different forms of “regret lotteries” might encourage people to get vaccinated.

The increased rate of vaccinations means that recent U.S. monkeypox cases tend to be among immunocompromised people, according to Stuart Isaacs of the Perelman School of Medicine.

A study co-authored by Adriana Perez of the School of Nursing identifies four key barriers stopping Hispanic Americans who want to be vaccinated.