Terry Richmond and Marta Bruce were featured in an LDI Q&A regarding "The Contribution of Neighborhood Characteristics to Psychological Symptom Severity in a Cohort of Injured Black Men," a paper they recently published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health...
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Inquirer: Gun violence lessons from my tennis instructor: The perfect shot is the one we don’t see
Ella Eisinger, a medical student with Elinore Kaufman, wrote an op-ed in the Inquirer about "the perfect shot" in tennis, as told by her late tennis instructor who was lost to gun violence, and how it relates to the epidemic of gun violence. Read the full article
Seasonal Changes in Adolescent Suicide Explain Controversial ’13 Reasons Why’ Findings
A press release from the Annenberg Public Policy Center details Dan Romer's research, which disputes the highly publicized findings that suggested a spike in youth suicide coinciding with the release of the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, a show that revolves around...
Inquirer: Why the tourniquet, a relic from the earliest days of medicine, is back amid the gun violence epidemic
Elinore Kaufman was quoted in an Inquirer article about the utility of tourniquets amidst the gun violence epidemic in Philadelphia. A separate, parallel article of the same journal told readers how to fashion and use a tourniquet to save a life. Read the full...
Penn LDI: A Catch-Up on Promising Efforts to Mitigate the Opioid Crisis
Maggie Lowenstein sat down for a Q&A with Penn LDI's Karl Stark to talk trends and promising efforts in opioid and substance use care. CareConnect, an opioid telehealth program on which Lowenstein collaborates with Jeanmarie Perrone, was separately featured in the...
Penn Today: Thinking ‘beyond the hospital’ for Black men recovering from traumatic injury
Research by Terry Richmond and Marta Bruce, featured in Penn Today, has examined how environmental factors influence the development of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in Black men who sustained a traumatic injury. “We have to think about the environment...
For Migrants, the Path to Happiness Often Carries a Traumatic Mental Toll
Colleagues shine a spotlight on the work of Laura Vargas, who integrates the power of stories with the rigor of science to understand mental health vulnerabilities among Latin American immigrants, so we can improve the development and delivery of appropriate...
New Co-Directors Named at Penn Injury Science Center
The Penn Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) highlighted the announcement of Drs. Zack Meisel and Kate McDonald as the new Co-Directors of the Penn Injury Science Center. Read the full announcement
American Academy of Pediatrics: Teen Drivers Often Unsafe on the Road with Speeding and Handheld Cellphone Use
A study from Kate McDonald, Kit Delgado, Kevin Rix, Jeff Ebert, and colleagues was featured in a press release from the American Academy of Pediatrics, picked up by Science Daily, and re-shared by Penn Today. Assessing risky teen driving behaviors via smartphone app,...
STAT: How health systems can truly value Black lives: help close the racial wealth gap
Gina South and colleagues penned an op-ed for STAT, suggesting ways health systems can play a role in addressing "one of the most upstream drivers of racial health disparities: the racial wealth gap," noting that it is difficult to move the needle on health...