The Northwest Philadelphia Technical Assistance Program (NW Philly TAP), a human-centered design initiative, brought together nonprofits focused on community safety and well-being in Northwest Philadelphia. Led by Sara Solomon, Andrew Belfiglio, and Isabella Ntigbu...
Bernadette D’Alonzo, Andrea Schneider, and colleagues studied sex differences in concussion recovery, highlighting the role of sport contact level. Using data from the Ivy League–Big Ten Epidemiology of Concussion Study, they found that while recovery timelines...
Dan Corwin, Kate McDonald, Kristy Arbogast, and Tina Master were part of a team that sought to predict persistent postconcussion symptoms in youth concussion, by optimizing the combination of common concussion assessments.
Rachel Myers, Joel Fein, and a team from Center for Injury Research and Prevention and Center for Violence Prevention modified an existing questionnaire for relevance to CHOP’S Hospital-based Violence Intervention Program (HVIP) to routinely assess client...
Carmen Alvarez demonstrated the initial effectiveness of Cuidándome (quee-DAN-doh-meh, “taking care of myself”), a 10-week, patient-centered, trauma-informed intervention for Latina immigrant survivors, to prevent the long term health impacts of Adverse Childhood...
Cassis Boateng of the School of Nursing and colleagues assessed how religiosity relates to health seeking behaviors for mental health in a recent publication. Related to the topic of religiosity, Cassis presented at SAVIR 2023 about the role of spirituality in firearm...
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...
John MacDonald outlines seven key facts about crime and criminal offenders in Vital City to explain why politically popular criminal justice reforms tend to fail.
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...
Elinore Kaufman, Therese Richmond, and Katie Hoskins published a review for pediatric critical care clinicians on youth firearm injury, now the leading cause of death for youth in the United States. The article includes approaches for prevention and the improvement of...
