Current Issue: Fall/Winter 2024

A young Black man in sunglasses leans over a raised garden bed with strawberry plants, with a city rowhouse scene in the distance behind him.

Health, greenery, and justice for all

Reversing racial inequities is a full-force effort rooted in research that includes gardens and parks, financial support, and lifting up local community members to lead the way.

Portrait of Eugenia South and Atheendar Venkataramani standing together in a green space

A large-scale research study of health, wealth, and greening

Combining economic assistance with greening initiatives in a randomized trial, IGNITE aims to show how to reverse the harms of racial injustice in health.

Nicole Thomas, Evan Spencer, and Janaiya Reason stand talking and smiling in a park

From the neighborhood

For the Center for Health Justice, hiring people with deep roots of their own in West Philadelphia is key to partnering effectively to support healthier communities.

Janaiya Reason, wearing a Deeply Rooted name badge, talks with a person at a table at an outdoor community event.

‘We are all Deeply Rooted’

Deeply Rooted is a community partnership that plants trees, greens vacant lots, and funds grassroots programs. The goal: health justice in action.

Your brain on beauty

At the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, an artist-in-residence and a team of scientists explore a range of questions connecting neuroscience, art, and human experience.
Brain research could help patients with paralysis move again

Sophisticated sensor technology, motion capture gloves, and patient volunteers are the elements of brain research aiming to help paralyzed people move.
Creatively engineering the emergency department

A new course brings together graduate students from across Penn schools to help hospital spaces work better for clinicians and their patients.
Getting to the root of health

At the root of it, Penn Medicine is in the business of creating a healthier world. Providing excellent health care is just one piece of that.
Learning to listen as new medical students

As new Penn medical students donned their white coats for the first time, they received guidance on how to listen, in all senses of the word.
The motor driving Penn's biomedical research

The Perelman School of Medicine’s new interim senior vice dean and chief scientific officer, Michael Ostap, PhD, “knows how to make good science even better.”
Pennsylvania Hospital CEO embraces the past to advance the future

Taking the helm as CEO of the nation’s first hospital this year, Alicia Gresham wants that storied past to be part of its innovative next chapter.