Public Health

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.

In a podcast, Bonnie Milas of the Perelman School of Medicine explains what people should know about the current drug overdose epidemic and outlines ways to get educated about the topic.

In an op-ed, Jason Karlawish of the Perelman School of Medicine writes that Congress’ potential extension of Medicare telemedicine could launch a revolution in “telehealth care.”

Med student Rishi Goel of the Perelman School for Medicine says that the new bivalent vaccines will have some benefit for almost everyone who receives them.

Anand Shah of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics co-authored an op-ed stating that the government should provide the FDA with explicit authority to regulate e-cigarettes and additional products associated with tobacco harm.

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.

Indira Gurubhagavatula of the Perelman School of Medicine says that ResMed Inc. has struggled to meet the spike in demand for sleep apnea treatments.

Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine, whose key discoveries about mRNA contributed to Moderna and BioNTech, says that mRNA is designed to rapidly adapt to new strains and variants of virus.