Starting in 2022, the NFL introduced the "Inspire Change Changemaker Award" where each club selects an individual making a difference in their community with their social justice work. Ruth Abaya was named the Eagles' inaugural Changemaker for her work to understand...
Elinore Kaufman served as one of the moderators in the Restoring Safety Forum, posing questions to Philadelphia mayoral candidates about their plans to address public safety and gun violence. You can watch a recording of the event from Billy Penn.
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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,...
Desmond Upton Patton was quoted in a USA Today article about the impacts of violence being recorded and shared online. “I’ve been having the same conversation for the last decade,” speaking about the impact of social media on mental health and violence. “We need to...