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Pandemic preparedness, three years early
Students work at a table covered with paper, water bottles and markers.

Participants in the first PennDemic, which took place in 2018, lay out a timeline of the “outbreak.” Two additional simulations have since taken place, with one more scheduled for this coming fall.

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    • Pandemic preparedness, three years early

    In a Q&A, team members behind the outbreak simulation PennDemic discuss how the exercise, now in its fourth iteration, equipped an interdisciplinary group of grad students for COVID-19 and beyond.

    Michele W. Berger

    Collaborative report examines polling problems in the 2020 election
    A stylized map of the United States is full of depictions of men and women packing the country

    A newly released report from the American Association of Public Opinion Researchers (AAPOR) that takes a look at what went wrong with polling in 2020.

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    • Collaborative report examines polling problems in the 2020 election

    The Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies took a leading role in the newly released report on polling. The program’s faculty director, John Lapinski, shares his takeaways.

    Kristen de Groot

    U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, explained
    US soldiers holding guns are running behind a tank with an American flag on top in sand in Syria

    The 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team on the ground in Syria. (Image: The National Guard)

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    • U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, explained

    Sara Plana, a 2021-22 Postdoctoral Fellow at Perry World House, shares her thoughts on the airstrikes targeting Iranian-backed militias and the bigger picture of what’s happening in the region.

    Kristen de Groot

    The use and misuse of race in health care
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    • The use and misuse of race in health care

    In a Q&A, PIK Professor Sarah Tishkoff, the Perelman School of Medicine’s Giorgio Sirugo, and Case Western Reserve University’s Scott Williams shed light on the “quagmire” of race, ethnicity, genetic ancestry, and environmental factors and their contribution to health disparities.

    Katherine Unger Baillie

    Israel’s new coalition government
    A man with short gray hair wearing a dark blue suit jacket, white shirt and light blue tie is seen in profile in front of an Israeli flag

    An upcoming vote in Israel’s parliament could end Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12 years in power. (Image: Press service of the president of the Russian Federation)

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    • Israel’s new coalition government

    Middle East expert Ian Lustick discusses why this power play is happening now and what the coalition government means for the future of Israeli politics.

    Kristen de Groot

    Report looks at referendums on Irish unification
    Two green N1 highway signs stacked on top of each other show arrows pointing the way to Belfast in the top sign and the way to Dublin in the bottom sign, with Belfast to the left and Dublin to the right

    A group of experts have issued a report on what would need to happen for a referendum on Irish unification to be fair and feasible.

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    • Report looks at referendums on Irish unification

    A dozen experts, including Penn’s Brendan O’Leary, lay a framework for how any future unification vote can be fair and feasible.

    Kristen de Groot

    Urban planning and politics in Atlanta
    A black and white image of high-rise buildings collapsing in a cloud of dust

    The 1972 demolition of the St. Louis, Missouri urban housing projects known as Pruitt-Igoe less than 20 years after their completion in 1956 illustrates the lack of maintenance given to public housing in the United States. 

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    • Urban planning and politics in Atlanta

    Akira Rodríguez’s new book, “Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing” explores how the intersection of race and public housing development planning in Atlanta created a politics of resistance.

    Kristina Linnea García