First In-Person LDI Health Policy Retreat Since 2019
The 2022 LDI Health Policy Retreat included lightning talks by Fellows detailing their latest research, and a keynote conversation with Former CDC Director Julie Gerberding and Ezekiel Emanuel.
The five-year grant awarded to LDI and Penn's Population Aging Research Center will establish the Get Experience in Aging Research Undergraduate Program (GEAR UP) to support underrepresented students interested in careers in aging and health research.
Research by Norma Coe, Rachel M. Werner,et al reveals that although racial and ethnic minority enrollees had more Medicare Advantage plans available to them than white enrollees, the plans offered to them had lower quality ratings.
A study by Andy Tan and colleagues found a reduction in vaping and cigarettes among high school youth in Oakland after the city banned the sale of flavored tobacco products.
In JAMA Internal Medicine, Catherine Auriemma finds that these directives often act as an obstacle to advance care planning and meaningful conversations around patients' goals of care and future decision making.
During the hybrid Samuel P. Martin, III, MD Memorial Lecture, health equity researcher Alicia Fernández, MD delivered a personal account of her engagement with San Francisco’s “Latino COVID pandemic” over the past two years.
A Conversation with Senator Bob Casey, JD, Mary Ersek, PhD, RN, Jasmine Travers, PhD, RN, Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD, and Rodney Whitlock, PhD
Friday, May 27 9:00–10:20 a.m. ET
Virtual event open to the public.
IN THE MEDIA
“Amid a Rise in Shootings, New York’s Children Confront a Wave of Grief.” Aditi Vasan.New York Times
“How COVID is Helping Us Move Away From White-Centered Clinical Trials To Reach More Patients.” Carmen E. Guerra. Philadelphia Inquirer
“Roe is Under Attack: How Can I Help?” Ari Friedman. MedPage Today
“Philadelphians Exercise Less Than Much of America.” Terri Lipman.Philadelphia Inquirer
“People in Poverty Will Suffer the Most if Roe Is Overturned, Pennsylvania Experts Say.” Sarah Gutman.Philadelphia Inquirer
PUBLICATIONS
“Resident Mortality And Worker Infection Rates From COVID-19 Lower in Union Than Nonunion U.S. Nursing Homes, 2020-21.” Adam Dean, Jamie McCallum, Simeon D. Kimmel, Atheendar S. Venkataramani.Health Affairs
“How Referring Providers Choose Specialists for Their Patients: A Systematic Review.” Caitlin B. Finn, Jason K. Tong, Hannah E. Alexander, Chris Wirtalla, Heather Wachtel, Carmen E. Guerra, Shivan J. Mehta, Richard Wender, Rachel R. Kelz.Journal of General Internal Medicine
“Think Pragmatically: Investigators' Obligations to Patient-Subjects When Research is Embedded in Care.” Stephanie Morain, Emily Largent.American Journal of Bioethics
“What Socioeconomic Disadvantage Means for Critical Illness Recovery, Clinical Care, and Research.” Christopher F. Chesley, Meghan B. Lane-Fall.Critical Care Medicine
“Conditions of Nursing Practice in Hospitals and Nursing Homes Before COVID-19: Implications for Policy Action.” Rachel French, Linda H. Aiken, Kathleen E. Fitzpatrick Rosenbaum, Karen B. Lasater.Journal of Nursing Regulation
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