
The Unpredictable Course of COVID-19
Much has been learned about the novel coronavirus within the past seven months, including risk factors for severe illness, treatments...

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...

State-level Variation in Opioid Prescribing After Knee Arthroscopy Among the Opioid-Naïve in the USA
StartFragment A new study led PISC Past Trainee, Benjamin Ukert, PhD, in collaboration with Senior Scholar, M. Kit Delgado, MD, and many...

Maps, Pandemics, and Reckoning with History
StartFragment Geospatial data has long been an important tool for scientists and scholars, but now, as society grapples with both a...

Vehicle Safety Characteristics in Vulnerable Driver Populations
StartFragment National data suggest drivers who are younger, older, and have lower socioeconomic status (SES) have heightened...

When it Comes to its Gun Violence Epidemic, Philly is Struggling to Control the Spread
StartFragment PISC Senior Scholars Elinore Kaufman, MD, Joel Fein, MD, and Executive Board Member, Therese Richmond, PhD, are featured in...

Assessing the Impact of a Local Community Subsidised Rideshare Programme on Road Traffic Injuries: A
StartFragment A recent study led by PISC International Scholar and Internal Advisory Board Member David Humphreys, PhD, in collaboration...

Selling Fear in America's Suburbs
PISC Senior Scholar Vincent Reina, PhD, was featured in a recent article by the Philadelphia Inquirer. The article details the practice...

The Unknown Denominator Problem in Population Studies of Disease Frequency
StartFragment To calculate incidence or prevalence of disease, at risk population size is typically conceptualized as a denominator....

A New Approach to Aiding Black male trauma survivors
In a collaborative new study between the School of Nursing and Drexel University, researchers have peeled back the layers of what causes...