Shoshana Aronowitz of the School of Nursing, Zack Meisel of the Perelman School of Medicine, and colleagues assessed the various types of prior authorization requirements for Medicaid-covered buprenorphine treatment across the 50 states, which present barriers to...
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.
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.
Desmond Patton led a novel analysis using focus group and social media data to confirm or reject findings from qualitative interviews, conducted to understand how violence impacted low-income residents of color amidst co-occurring health (COVID-19) and social...
John Holmes and colleagues wrote a position paper articulating the need (and a framework) for “explainability” in the artificial intelligence that is employed in medicine. With diversity in their roles and perspectives, the authors discuss some of the...
Following the publication of a recent article in JAMA Network Open with a team of PISC Scholars, Elinore Kaufman and Michelle Degli Esposti describe in an LDI blog post how the findings identify opportunities for teasing out what makes the difference in firearm...
The opioid crisis has hit Philadelphia particularly hard, with over 46 overdose deaths per 100,000 residents in 2017, twice the national average. In response, the City of Philadelphia developed an overarching prevention strategy, the Resilience Project, which includes...
Over the last 15 years a range of laws have been enacted across states in United States that enhance the rights of individuals to use lethal force in self-defense. These laws are collectively known as stand your ground or shoot first laws. The Stand Your Ground...
The PHIGHT Network’s community listening session, Together We Can, on March 29th, 2022 was covered by Fox29 in their Save Our Streets segment. The event was hosted by The PHIGHT Network (an initiative of the West/Southwest Collaborative, of which Penn Injury...
Despite numerous implementations of “stand your ground” (SYG) laws, or policies that provide legal immunity to individuals who publicly use deadly force, their exact impact on violence is still unclear. Led by PISC postdoctoral fellow Michelle Degli...
