
New Initiative from Penn researchers Aims to Advance Anti-racist Healthcare Models
Eight Penn healthcare researchers, including PISC Senior Scholar Eugenia South, MD, MSHP and PISC Internal Advisory Board Member, Rachel...

Virtual Seminar: Policing, Race, and Health: Prospects for Reform
A Conversation with Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota Edwin Lindo,...

Effect of scaling back punishment on racial and ethnic disparities in criminal case outcomes
The punitive shift in sentencing policy in the United States during the latter quarter of the twentieth century disproportionately...

Incidence of Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Following Nonfatal Overdose in Commercially Insured P
Timely initiation and referral to treatment for patients with opioid use disorder seen in the emergency department is associated with...

Laura Vargas, PhD, on Amplifying Nursing
Tune in to the latest episode of the Penn Nursing podcast, Amplifying Nursing, featuring PISC Postdoctoral Fellow Laura Vargas, PhD, and...

Universal Background Checks for Handgun Purchases Can Reduce African American Homicide Rates
StartFragment Although firearm homicide disproportionately affects African Americans, little is known about how universal background...

Doctors, Families Struggle with End of Life Decisions
With so many doctors and nurses on the frontlines are under so much stree in situations from fighting the virus, long hours, shortages of...

What A Ventilator Shortage Means During COVID-19
and How We All Can Help
PISC Senior Scholar Megan Lane-Fall, MD, recently authored an op-ed on the impending ventilator shortage due to the COVID-19 outhbreak....

The Lasting Effects of Stop-and-Frisk in Bloomberg’s New York
PISC Internal Advisory Board Member John MacDonald's research into the effects of local police surges on crime and arrests in New York...

Poor Health and Violent Crime Hot Spots: Mitigating the Undesirable Co-Occurrence Through Focused Pl
In a study led by PISC Past Trainee Beidi Dong, PhD, Dong et al. address two questions to understand whether and how place-based...