New resource on structural racism and rigorous models of social inequity
Feb 27, 2023
To better understand and address structural racism, it is important to consider historical and contemporary policies as well as other structural factors that affect people’s health and well-being across the life course, along with strategies for measuring those factors. A new interactive resource…
New project to study impacts of eviction on health
Nov 28, 2022
Prior to the pandemic, many poor renter households in the U.S. spent over half their income on rent, leading to an epidemic of evictions and negative impacts on physical and mental health. A Penn State researcher will participate in a new project that will evaluate the effects of pandemic eviction-…
Social Science Research Institute welcomes Jessica Ho as cofunded faculty member
Sep 11, 2022
Penn State’s Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) recently announced new cofunded faculty member Jessica Ho, who will join the institute in the 2022-23 academic year. Ho is an associate professor of sociology and demography and an associate of the Population Research Institute and comes to Penn…
$3M grant to fund research into disparities in hospital patient transfers
Jul 13, 2022
Each year, one in five Americans visits the emergency department, and approximately three million of them are transferred to another hospital for a variety of reasons. A $3 million grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities will fund a Penn State-led project to…
Team looks at health disparities and impact of adverse childhood events
Mar 15, 2022
Penn State students, along with a team from Penn State Health, Penn State College of Medicine and Gramener, a data science consulting company, worked together to identify risk factors, health disparities — and the lifetime consequences of — adverse childhood events (ACE). The team was part of a …
Penn State educational and health disparities research featured
Oct 27, 2021
This video highlighting work being done at SSRI's Center for Educational Disparities Research and Child Maltreatment Solutions Network features several SSRI cofunded faculty and is currently being broadcast at the annual conference of the American Public Health Association. Research taking place at…
Penn State receives $25 million to enhance medical research, human health
Oct 22, 2021
Expanded partnerships, access to clinical trials, and new medical and behavioral treatments and interventions reaching individuals more quickly will benefit communities in Pennsylvania and beyond thanks to the renewal of Penn State’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) funded by the…
College of Medicine receives $2.7 million to address COVID-19 health disparities
Dec 11, 2020
Dr. Jennifer Kraschnewski, professor of medicine, public health sciences and pediatrics at Penn State College of Medicine, has received $2.69 million through the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to establish projects aimed at addressing COVID-19 health disparities among nursing…