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Building Public Health Capacity for IPV

Building Public Health Capacity for IPV

Millan AbiNader of the School of Social Policy & Practice (SP2) leads Penn's participation in the Survivor Link + Public Health AmeriCorps program to provide financial support for SP2 students to build capacity in public health agencies, promote evidence-based...

Young drivers with congenital heart disease

Young drivers with congenital heart disease

Leigh Ann DiFusco, a Penn Injury Science Center postdoc in the School of Nursing, wrote a blog post for CHOP's Center for Injury Research & Prevention about her portfolio of research - factors that make driving more difficult or risky for teens and young adults...

ED Nurse Screening, Clinician Prompts Improve OUD Treatment

ED Nurse Screening, Clinician Prompts Improve OUD Treatment

Healthcare Innovation featured the Warm Handoff project. “Our findings indicate that the screening and prompts help clinicians to recognize patients and increasingly initiate important care for them,” says Maggie Lowenstein. “There is a huge group now eligible to...

Congratulations to Dr. Katie Hunzinger and Dr. Kevin Rix

Congratulations to Dr. Katie Hunzinger and Dr. Kevin Rix

Congratulations to Katie Hunzinger of the Perelman School of Medicine and Kevin Rix of the School of Nursing and Perelman School of Medicine for completing their postdoctoral fellowships at the Penn Injury Science Center and beginning their next chapters as assistant...

Responses to mass shootings vs. chronic gun violence

Responses to mass shootings vs. chronic gun violence

Elinore Kaufman of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke on Louisville NPR member station WFPL about the difference in public response to the recent mass shooting compared to the area's chronic gun violence. "It's interesting, I used to say the mass shootings are...

Khalif Mujahid Ali’s legacy

Khalif Mujahid Ali’s legacy

A powerful voice in the violence prevention world of Philadelphia was lost with the recent passing of Khalif Mujahid Ali. The Penn Community Violence Prevention team aims to carry on the legacy of one of its founding members and Khalif's longtime partners look to...

Trainee Learning Lab: a CDC Success Story

Trainee Learning Lab: a CDC Success Story

The Trainee Learning Lab at the Penn Injury Science Center is a featured CDC ICRC Success Story for bringing together graduate and undergraduate students across the country (many from fellow Injury Control Research Centers) to discuss injury science and methodology in...

Story slam on firearm injury and prevention

Story slam on firearm injury and prevention

Elinore Kaufman and Rodney Babb, of the Penn Trauma Violence Recovery Program, participated in the Story Slam focusing on firearm injury and prevention as a public health issue, co-hosted by Annals of Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians (ACP) and...

Denise Johnson recognized as Difference Maker

Denise Johnson recognized as Difference Maker

Denise Johnson was featured in Penn Today and named a difference maker in the Penn Medicine News for her role as the bridge between the street outreach Penn Community Violence Prevention program and the hospital-based Penn Trauma Violence Recovery Program.

Preventing falls with tech

Preventing falls with tech

Sense4Safety, the technology used in one of the Center's core research projects, received a flurry of media attention following a presentation by George Demiris at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference. Demiris leads the Center's project...

Reducing barriers to care for opioid use disorder

Reducing barriers to care for opioid use disorder

Maggie Lowenstein was featured in two recent articles related to improved access to opioid care. The LDI blog post discusses reducing barriers to care and the WHYY article reviews the potential of over-the-counter naloxone, an overdose reversal medication.