Affirmative Action Affects Health
By Atheendar Venkataramani: In the United States, affirmative action programs have been used to remediate long-standing inequalities that raise the risk of lifetime poverty...
After the Care Crisis
Care is in crisis. The lion’s share of caregiving within and outside of families is done by women and they receive little to no pay, nor recognition for it. Women represent...
After Trump Blames Mental Illness for Mass Shootings, Health Agencies Ordered to Hold All Posts on Issue
When President Trump targeted mental illness as the cause of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton that killed 31 people, federal health officials made sure no government...
Aging and the Costs of Long-Term Care
Norma B. Coe, PhD, was featured on WHYY's Radio Times on January 16. Read more below: Long-term care demand and costs are rising, and many experts worry we aren’t prepared...
Aging and the costs that come with it
From Penn Today: As a high school student, junior Darcey Hookway spent time volunteering on a dementia ward at a local hospital. “The social aspect of their condition...
Ahead of a divisive election, this Penn doctor is working to ensure people with dementia can vote
Jason Karlawish’s interest in ensuring that Americans with dementia can vote goes back 20 years to another contentious election, the one between George W. Bush and Al Gore...
Aid in Dying Soon Will be Available to More Americans. Few Will Choose It.
Yet those at heightened risk for Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, are already well aware of aid-in-dying laws, and some would opt to use them,...
AIDS circumcision campaign boosted by new evidence
A campaign to encourage circumcision among men in sub-Saharan Africa to help protect them against the AIDS virus was backed by new research on Monday showing that men who...
AJPH Recognizes Paper By Atheendar Venkataramani As One of the Best of the Year
Congratulations to our department’s Atheendar Venkataramani, PhD, MD, MPhil, who has been recognized by the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) for co-writing one of the...