Events
Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)
Hybrid-Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): The 4 R’s Formula for Community Participatory Research - Dr. Alvin C. Hathaway, Sr.
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2025-09-09 12:00:00
2025-09-09 13:00:00
America/New_York
Hybrid-Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): The 4 R’s Formula for Community Participatory Research - Dr. Alvin C. Hathaway, Sr.
The 4 R's Formula for Community Participatory Research
Dr. Alvin C. Hathaway, Sr.
Co-Founder, African Ancestry Neuroscience Research Initiative (AANRI)
Dr. Alvin C. Hathaway Sr. has refined a simple yet powerful formula for authentic community participatory research — Recognition, Respect, Relationship, and Results.
Recognition – Acknowledge the history, culture, and lived experience of the community as a source of knowledge equal to academic expertise.
Respect – Ensure that every voice is valued, perspectives are honored, and cultural norms are observed throughout the research process.
Relationship – Build trust through sustained engagement, transparency, and mutual benefit, ensuring that collaboration is genuine rather than extractive.
Results – Deliver tangible, measurable benefits to the community, from improved health outcomes to lasting policy change.
Dr. Hathaway has embedded this 4 R’s approach into diverse research initiatives, including neuroscience studies, faith-based healthy heart programs, clinical trials, and the Black Men’s Brain Health project. In every case, the formula ensures that research is not done to the community but done with the community — producing both rigorous science and transformative impact.
Founded in 2019, the African Ancestry Neuroscience Research Initiative (AANRI) is a groundbreaking collaboration between African American community leaders in Baltimore, the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, and Morgan State University that aims to address and rectify longstanding disparities in neuroscience research.
~ Dr. Hathaway’s visit is co-sponsored by the Penn Neurology / Community and Social Action Committee (CASA)
Streaming available via Zoom.
Registration required - lunch provided.
Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Medical Ethics
1104 Blockley Hall (Note: Virtual attendees can join by accessing this link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95353951407.)
Health Policy Research Seminar: Anjali Adukia, EdD, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
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2025-09-11 12:00:00
2025-09-11 13:00:00
America/New_York
Health Policy Research Seminar: Anjali Adukia, EdD, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
Topic: "Separation of Church and State Curricula? Examining Public and Religious Private School Textbooks."
Abstract: Curricula impart knowledge, instill values, and shape collective memory. Despite growing public funding for religious schools through U.S. school choice programs, little is known about what they teach. We examine textbooks from public schools, religious private schools, and home schools, applying computational methods–including AI tools–to measure the presence and portrayal of people, topics, and values over time. Despite narratives of political polarization, our findings reveal few meaningful differences between public school textbooks from Texas and California. However, religious school textbooks have less female representation, feature lighter-skinned individuals, and portray topics like evolution and religion differently. Over one-third of pages in each collection convey character values, with a higher proportion in religious school textbooks. Important similarities also emerge: all textbook collections rarely include LGBTQIA+ discussion, portray females in more positive but less active or powerful contexts than males, and depict the U.S. founding era and slavery in similar contexts.
Bio: Anjali Adukia is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and the director of the MiiE Lab (Messages, Identity, and Inclusion in Education). In her work, she seeks to understand how children from all backgrounds can have opportunities to realize their potential. Adukia's work draws on large-scale data, often deriving data from previously unused and underused sources, including employing artificial intelligence (AI) methods to expand the tools and data used in social science.
Adukia has received an NSF CAREER Award in economics (2024-2029), the SREE Early Career Award (2023), the William T. Grant Foundation Scholar Award (2018-2023), the NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018), and an Institute of Education Sciences grant (2020-2022). Her doctoral thesis won best dissertation awards from APPAM and AEFP. Her research has received awards from Google and has been featured in media outlets such as Scientific American, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Education Week, School Library Journal, and NPR.
Adukia is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Economics of Education and Children and Families groups, a research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development, an affiliate of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD), and a faculty affiliate of the University of Chicago Education Lab. She is on the editorial boards of Education Finance and Policy, Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, and Journal of Social Computing (IEEE). She co-organizes the annual AI in Social Sciences conference at The University of Chicago. She completed her doctoral degree at Harvard University, with a focus on the economics of education. She has a masters of education from Harvard University and a bachelor of science degree in molecular and integrative physiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
1104 Blockley Hall (Note: Virtual attendees can join by accessing this link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95353951407.)
Penn Medical Ethics
Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)
Hybrid-Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): Evolving Ethical Challenges in Decentralized Clinical Trials - Effy Vayena, PhD
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2025-10-07 12:00:00
2025-10-07 13:00:00
America/New_York
Hybrid-Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): Evolving Ethical Challenges in Decentralized Clinical Trials - Effy Vayena, PhD
Evolving Ethical Challenges in Decentralized Clinical Trials
Effy Vayena, PhD
Professor of Bioethics
Associate Vice President for Digital Transformation & Governance
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ)
Decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) have gained significant traction, especially following the COVID-19 pandemic. These trials rely on digital technologies and remote patient monitoring, promising to reach more diverse patient groups while reducing costs and accelerating research. Drawing on data from current DCTs, Dr. Vayena will present the evolution of the DTC landscape over the past few years. While highlighting the benefits of DCTs, the presentation will focus on the ethical challenges they raise as they are adopted across various fields of clinical research. Dr. Vayena will explore how these challenges have evolved over the past five years and propose directions for addressing them. By examining the intersection of ethics, clinical trials, and digital health technologies, Dr. Vayena aims to offer a better understanding of the complexities involved in conducting ethical decentralized clinical trials and guide future research practices.
Registration Required. Lunch provided.
Streaming available via Zoom.
Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Medical Ethics
1104 Blockley Hall (Note: Virtual attendees can join by accessing this link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95353951407.)
Health Policy Research Seminar: Diane Alexander, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Care Management, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
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2025-10-08 12:00:00
2025-10-08 13:00:00
America/New_York
Health Policy Research Seminar: Diane Alexander, PhD, Assistant Professor of Health Care Management, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Diane Alexander is an Assistant Professor of Health Care Management at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research is predominantly in health care, studying the economics of the provision of health care services and the actions of health care providers. More broadly, she is also interested in the interactions between environmental policies and health, as well as between health care and education. Her work has been featured in media outlets including the Washington Post, Bloomberg, CityLab, Vox, and Scientific American, as well as podcasts such as Freakonomics radio and Vox’s The Weeds.
She has studied the roles played by new types of providers in health care delivery, focusing on retail and urgent care clinics; the role of nurse practitioners and physician assistants in access and health; and how payment incentives influence physician decision-making. In a strand of work focusing on the interaction of environment and place on health outcomes, she has studied the role of residential segregation in explaining persistent racial health disparities, and the effect of pollution on health, utilizing the excess diesel emissions from the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal as a natural experiment.
Prior to joining Wharton, Alexander was an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. She received a B.A. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.
1104 Blockley Hall (Note: Virtual attendees can join by accessing this link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95353951407.)
Penn Medical Ethics
Hybrid: 1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive (and virtual via Zoom)
Hybrid-Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): "The Other Disabled President"- Beth Linker, PhD
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2025-10-14 12:00:00
2025-10-14 13:00:00
America/New_York
Hybrid-Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): "The Other Disabled President"- Beth Linker, PhD
Hybrid: 1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Medical Ethics
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