Celebrating 70 years of water fluoridation in Philadelphia
On May 1, Penn Dental Medicine and PA Coalition for Oral Health co-hosted a special event celebrating 70 years of community water fluoridation in Philadelphia and promoting water fluoridation as an essential public health measure.
Tessa Gadomski in the Steven Miller Conservation Laboratory was tasked with stabilizing the Ms. Codex 1950, a fragile book of handwritten Persian poetry. Its catalog entry lists its publication date as between 1474 and 1650; the codex itself is dated 1474.
Political Empathy Lab assembles summer research team to meet residents of Pennsylvania and connect across political difference
The 10-week immersive traveling research experience begins May 28 through August 2, and travels from Philadelphia to Gettysburg, Lancaster to Erie to explore the possibility of connecting across political difference through direct practice in Pennsylvania.
Penn Nursing Dean Emerita to receive 2024 National Humanism in Medicine Medal
Afaf Ibrahim Meleis, professor of nursing and sociology and Penn Nursing Dean Emerita, will be one of three awardees of the 2024 National Humanism in Medicine Medal from The Arnold P. Gold Foundation, the leading nonprofit dedicated to humanism in health care for all.
Penn Engineering Ph.D. students receive funding from Amazon to advance trustworthy AI
Amazon Web Services has granted Penn Engineering $700,000 to fund 10 Ph.D. student research projects in Penn Engineering’s ASSET (AI-Enabled Systems: Safe, Explainable and Trustworthy) Center advancing safe and responsible AI.
Health care algorithms can improve or worsen racial and ethnic disparities
Penn LDI senior fellows Shazia Mehmood Siddique, Jaya Aysola, Michael O. Harhay, Harald Schmidt, Gary E. Weissman, and colleagues have conducted a systematic review of 63 studies published since 2011. They found evidence that health care algorithms can both improve and worsen racial and ethnic disparities for access, quality of care, and health outcomes for patients, regardless of their explicit inclusion of race or ethnicity as a variable.
Eric Stoopler, professor of oral medicine in Penn’s School of Dental Medicine, has been recognized by the American Academy of Oral Medicine as this year’s recipient of its Craig S. Miller Diamond Pin Award.
When studies conflict, how can you know which meds work?
Ellen Caniglia, an assistant professor of epidemiology, and Enrique Schisterman, a professor and the chair of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, have received a $1 million grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to develop a system that would allow clinicians to weigh the results of two conflicting clinical trials and make an informed choice about how those findings should influence their patients’ treatment.
As teacher shortages rise, experts share tailored solutions
Sarah Kavanagh, director of Penn GSE’s Collaboratory for Teaching and Teacher Education presented at a conference dedicated to bolstering teaching ranks, “Elevating the Teaching Profession: A National Conversation on the Future of Teaching.”