A gift from Monogram Health will create the Penn LDI Research Initiative on Improving Management of Chronic Kidney Disease, which will primarily focus on addressing structural barriers and racial inequities to care.
Meghan Lane-Fall has been named Executive Director of Penn's Implementation Science Center at LDI, and several LDI Senior Fellows also assumed leadership roles at the center.
The 2022 Summer Undergraduate Minority Research Program (SUMR) program concluded with 55 student presentations on topics such as emergency department racism, and more.
Ari Friedman and Matthew McCoy called for abortion clinics to audit their websites and remove third party trackers after finding that more than 99% of clinic web pages they studied in May used code that transferred user data to external entities.
Research by Katherine Miller, Liisa Laine, and Norma Coe revealed decreases in available beds and skilled nurses, although the amount of private pay senior housing communities has increased.
LDI and the University of Pennsylvania Health System announce the second annual request for proposals for the LDI-Penn Medicine Research Laboratory. The lab solicits proposals for projects focused on Optimizing Health Care Through Community-Based Sites of Care.
“FDA-Approved Drugs Should Be Over-the-Counter by Default.” Steven Joffe, Holly Fernandez Lynch.Philadelphia Inquirer
“Student Loan Relief Stokes a Debate About Its Effect on Inflation.” Kent Smetters.New York Times
“Clashing Abortion Rulings Crimp Biden’s Response to High Court.” Allison Hoffman.Bloomberg Law
“Nearly One in Four Young Adults Received Mental Health Treatment in 2021, CDC Says.” Molly Candon.Philadelphia Inquirer
“'Perennial Battleground' Pennsylvania Draws Biden, Trump.” Daniel Hopkins.Reuters
PUBLICATIONS
“Building Black Wealth – The Role of Health Systems in Closing the Gap.” Eugenia South, Atheendar Venkataramani, George Dalembert.New England Journal of Medicine
“A Citywide Experiment Testing the Impact of Geographically Targeted, High-Pay-Off Vaccine Lotteries.“ Katherine L. Milkman et al.Nature Human Behavior
“Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Testing and Case Rates Among Women Veterans in the Veterans Health Administration.” Shimrit Keddem et al.Journal of General Internal Medicine
“Evaluation of Spending Differences Between Beneficiaries in Medicare Advantage and the Medicare Shared Savings Program.” Ravi B. Parikh, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, et al.JAMA Network Open
“Enrollment Brokers Did Not Increase Medicaid Enrollment, 2008–18.”
Becky Staiger, Anran Li, Diane Alexander, Molly Schnell. Health Affairs
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