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...
Gina South of the Perelman School of Medicine, Sara Jacoby of the School of Nursing, and colleagues describe the “racial empathy gap” in care for opioid use disorder, wherein Black patients are left wanting compassionate and dignified care when seeking OUD...
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...
Leigh Ann DiFusco, a Penn Injury Science Center postdoc in the School of Nursing, wrote a blog post for CHOP’s Center for Injury Research & Prevention about her portfolio of research – factors that make driving more difficult or risky for teens and...
Congratulations to Katie Hunzinger of the Perelman School of Medicine and Kevin Rix of the School of Nursing and Perelman School of Medicine for completing their postdoctoral fellowships at the Penn Injury Science Center and beginning their next chapters as assistant...
A team including Maggie Lowenstein of the Perelman School of Medicine and Shoshana Aronowitz of the School of Nursing interviewed patients and identified three facilitators for a low-barrier treatment model for opioid use disorder. Low-barrier treatment is a...
Deaths from firearm violence remain stubbornly high in the U.S. Those most affected include youth under the age of 20, for whom firearm violence is now the top cause of death, and Black men. Black teens and young men ages 18-34 account for 2% of the population but 36%...
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Population Health Improvement will conduct a hybrid public workshop December 6, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET, and December 7, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET, to discuss various dimensions of violence and...
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...
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Population Health Improvement will conduct a hybrid public workshop December 6, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET, and December 7, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET, to discuss various dimensions of violence and...
