Kit Delgado has been honored with a 2024 City & State Pennsylvania Impact Award. Dr. Delgado, an emergency physician and epidemiologist, leads innovative efforts to improve public health, including reducing distracted driving, promoting secure firearm storage, and...
Katie Hoskins, with co-investigators Joel Fein, and Dorothy Novick, leads a new study funded by a $3.2 million NINR grant. This five-year project at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) scales out the S.A.F.E. Firearm intervention, promoting secure firearm...
Rodney Babb, lead violence recovery specialist for the Penn Trauma Violence Recovery Program, has been accepted into the Community Violence Intervention Leadership Academy. This unique program out of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago...
Gina South and Jo Richardson were recently named members of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the field's highest honors. As a leader in advancing health equity and addressing structural racism, and now the Special Advisor for Equity at the Penn Injury...
A program led by the School District of Philadelphia is partnering with the Penn Community Violence Prevention program to reduce gun violence at John Bartram High School. Supported by OJJDP, the initiative will include crisis intervention, case management, and...
Have you published a paper in a peer-reviewed journal after July 1, 2022, with its focus on U.S. firearm injury, firearm violence, or their prevention? The Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms and the National Collaborative on Gun Violence...
Emma Sartin was named a STAT Wunderkind for her multidisciplinary approach to understanding racial disparities in child traffic injuries. The award recognizes the best early-career researchers in health and medicine in North America.
Chidinma Nwakanma received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching from the Perelman School of Medicine. The award was established in 1989 to recognize clinical teaching excellence and commitment to medical education by outstanding faculty members from...
Sara Jacoby is a part of two teams that were recently awarded grants from the Penn Community Collaboratory for Co-Creation (Penn4C), an initiative from Penn Nursing and Penn Engineering, for projects providing shelter from urban heat and removing debris from North...
Sara Jacoby and John Holmes have received the 2024 Lindback Awards for Distinguished Teaching. Since 1961, this prestigious award has recognized outstanding faculty members at colleges and universities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey who demonstrate exceptional...
Bernadette Hohl and Elinore Kaufman led applications that were selected for funding by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD). With the funding, Hohl will partner with The School District of Philadelphia to expand and enhance the Safe Path...
Sunny Jackson received the annual Community Champion Award from Penn Medicine CAREs, which included funds for HopePHL (formerly People's Emergency Center) to continue its partnership with the Penn Trauma Violence Recovery Program, of which Jackson is a part.