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April 12, 2022

Dr. Thirumurthy Promoted to Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy

Congratulations to CHIBE Associate Director Harsha Thirumurthy, PhD, on his promotion to Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, effective July 1, 2022.

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April 1, 2022

Your doctor is moonlighting on TikTok as an influencer

Doctors are becoming high-profile social media influencers. There are ethical side effects. Dom Sisti weighs in.

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March 21, 2022

Team Wins $2 Million Grant to Test New Approaches to Improve Familial Hypercholesterolemia Screening

Rinad Beidas, PhD, Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD; and Daniel Rader, MD, FAHA, will serve as multiple principal investigators for this grant from the NHLBI

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February 9, 2022

Penn and Tennessee Oncology Team Win Grant to Use Behavioral Economics, Predictive Analytics to Improve Palliative Care Use

A University of Pennsylvania team and Tennessee Oncology have won a $600,000 2-year grant from the Emerson Collective for a project that will leverage behavioral economics and predictive analytics to improve oncology patient health outcomes.

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January 17, 2022

Family and Friends are the Invisible Workforce in Long-term Care

Norma Coe and Rachel Werner expand on their recent study's findings, raising important questions about caregiving.

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January 10, 2022

Immunotherapy Use Increased in Patients Ineligible for Cancer Trials, Highlighting the Need for More Research in Vulnerable Populations

Ravi Parikh's recent study looks at the use of novel immunotherpaies in trial-ineligible patients compared to trial-eligible patients to treat cancer.

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January 4, 2022

New Penn Collaboratory Aims to Improve Care for Older Adults

New $20M award to fund the The Penn Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory for Healthy Aging

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December 27, 2021

How to make good habits stick

Katy Milkman speaks to WHYY RadioTimes about her new study in Nature, its findings, and how the lessons can be applied to our own lives, so we make habits that stick.

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December 20, 2021

Allocation of Opportunities to Participate in Clinical Trials during the Covid-19 Pandemic and Other Public Health Emergencies

Among the challenges that hospitals may face during a public health crisis is how to equitably provide patients with opportunities to participate in clinical trials. Holly Fernandez Lynch and colleageus explore ethical allocation.

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December 13, 2021

As Variants Emerge, COVID Clinical Trials Need Volunteers

COVID-19 clinical trial volunteers for new treatments and vaccines are in demand, especially as new variants continue to emerge. Emily Largent spoke to Verywell about clinical trial safeguards.

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December 6, 2021

Awakening Greater Attention to the Health Policy Importance of Sleep

Penn LDI Senior Fellow Heather Schofield Makes Headlines in Science Magazine

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December 3, 2021

Access to HIV self-tests in Kenya

Marking World AIDS Day, Harsha Thirumurthy offers four takeaways from his research exploring the impact access to free HIV self-tests had on women in Kenya and on the importance of HIV awareness.

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December 1, 2021

Hastings Center Welcomes 24 New Fellows

Holly Fernandez Lynch, Connie Ulrich, & Quayshawn Spencer elected as new fellows to the Hastings Center.

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November 22, 2021

When the hope goes: Talking with patients after withdrawal from cancer clinical trials

Cancer clinical trials remain underutilized by patients as a means of acquiring experimental drugs, tests and/or procedures that they otherwise might not be able to obtain. Connie Ulrich spoke to Healio about why people withdraw from clinical trials.

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November 17, 2021

The Relationship between Health and Place: Expanding Use of Place-Based Disadvantage Indices Beyond COVID-19

While disadvantage indices are increasingly recognized as a valuable tool to help promote health and prioritize equity, future use of these tools must include investments in data infrastructure, community partnerships, and further evaluation. Harald Schmidt provides insight.

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November 11, 2021

Why Schools Are Offering Money, and More, to Get Kids Vaccinated

Emily Largent speaks to TIME about vaccine incentives offered by schools hoping to encourage COVID-19 vaccination.

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November 2, 2021

FDA authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children 5 to 11

On Friday, October 29, regulators authorized the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for children 5 to 11 years old. A watershed moment celebrated by parents yearning for a return to normal life but viewed with ambivalence and outright skepticism by others worried about the potential risk of unknown side effects.

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November 1, 2021

Virtual lecture with Susan Neiman: What I Learned After Writing 'Learning From the Germans'

The 36th Annual Joseph Alexander Colloquium in the Jewish Studies Program invites you to attend this lecture on confronting race and the memory of evil.

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October 28, 2021

The US Should Change Payment To Make Health Care More Equitable

Medicare, Medicaid, and private payers have spent the better part of a decade reforming health care payment to emphasize value rather than the volume of care. But despite the benefits of these reforms, newer value-based payment approaches have not addressed deep-seated health inequities facing many Americans.

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October 26, 2021

Raina Merchant receives Penn Medicine Award of Excellence

Raina Merchant is a recipient of one of the 2021 Penn Medicine Awards of Excellence

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