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...
Penn physician-scientist Kit Delgado applies what he learns from treating injured patients in the ER to changing the behavior that gets us there in the first place. Read the full story
Sara Jacoby led a commentary that argues “recidivism” as a less than ideal metric for evaluating success in tertiary firearm injury prevention, as well as the insinuation it makes about racialized criminality and how it reinforces stigma. Read the full...
Chris Morrison, Sara Jacoby, and colleagues add a layer of understanding to the impact of historical racist redlining practices on present day firearm violence by assessing the relationship in different cities and the dose-responsive relationship on a zip code level....
Elinore Kaufman and a host of PISC Scholars past and present, as well as other colleagues, demonstrated the association between longer ground transport time and greater odds of death due to interpersonal firearm violence, a potentially modifiable factor to improve...
Shoshana Aronowitz and Margaret Lowenstein present at the seminar series titled “How the Injury Control Research Centers are responding to the Opioid Epidemic: Reports from the Front Lines of a Public Health Crisis,” organized by the Johns Hopkins Center for...
Maggie Lowenstein and colleagues report on Penn Medicine’s peer support program for patients being treated for opioid use disorder, including lessons learned, organizational challenges, and unresolved questions, in order to improve care and treatment adherence....
Allison Curry and a team of researchers at CHOP and Penn aimed to link hospital discharge data with police crash reports to more accurately account for crash injuries. They found that each data source in isolation misses approximately one-third of injured individuals...
Sara Jacoby calls researchers, policymakers, advocates, and health systems to action in an invited commentary on the burden of assault injuries. After a recent contribution by Barry et al, Jacoby says now is the time to shift attention to the implementation and...
A team of PISC Scholars assessed rates of firearm mortality at the county level across the United States over two five year periods. The study, led by Michelle Degli Esposti and the team of Doug Wiebe, Jason Gravel, Elinore Kaufman, Kit Delgado, and Terry Richmond,...
