Research

A Penn Medicine study found that Pandemic-era Medicaid rules resulted in coverage for more than 655,000 additional children.

A 2019 study by Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice found that the number of homeless elderly people would triple during the next 10 years.

A study by Alexander Moffett of the Perelman School of Medicine and colleagues found that use of a race-neutral reference equation resulted in an increased number of Black people with respiratory impairment and increased severity of impairment.

A recent study from Penn and OpenAI concluded that around 80% of the U.S. workforce could see at least 10% of their tasks affected by AI, with accountants and writers among the most exposed professions.

A report co-written by PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel sheds light on mistakes, data gaps, and dysfunctional organizational cultures that contributed to America’s loss of life during the COVID pandemic.

A study by the School of Veterinary Medicine and Penn State captured and tagged 32 deer last winter to research chronic wasting disease.

A five-year study by Penn and Yale found that Black people were more than twice as likely to be killed by police than were white people.

Susan Domchek of the Perelman School of Medicine is leading a trial for a preventive breast cancer vaccine.

A study by Shiri Melumad of the Wharton School finds that dictating online search queries using voice technology leads to better results than typing them.

A report from the Annenberg Public Policy Center examines how the name, description, and contents of VAERS, the federal government’s vaccine monitoring system, allowed anti-vaxxers and politicians to more easily mislead the public about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.