October 2018
Public Health vs. the Viruses: A Matchup for the Century
Public health actions during the 20th century vanquished the smallpox virus, but tackling emerging and reemerging viruses in the 21st century has been complex. Match-ups with SARS, Ebola, and Zika raised new challenges. Lessons learned from those bouts inform the needs of assuring global health security and domestic preparation. The perpetual threat posed by influenza – seasonal, avian, and pandemic – shows that old foes continue to acquire new tricks. We also know that there will always be new foes…
Find out more »November 2018
Tobacco Control Science Evidence Academy
The latest research about tobacco control and products.
Find out more »December 2018
9th Annual Community Driven Research Day (CDRD)
COMMUNITY-DRIVEN RESEARCH DAY encourages collaborations between researchers and community based organizations (CBOs) and community groups who have research questions that they are interested in answering, specifically in ways that address local solutions to health challenges. Through an interactive poster session, CBOs and community groups will highlight their questions to CDRD participants, who will include area non-profits, community groups, public sector partners, and researchers from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, The University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Drexel University, and Thomas Jefferson…
Find out more »January 2019
2019 Research Readiness Day
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CPHI Seminar Series: Crisis at the Border
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Find out more »March 2019
2nd Annual Research Day
Register for the upcoming 2nd Annual Research Day, held March 21 at the Biomedical Research Auditorium. The event will include this year's Brian L. Strom Visiting Professorship Lecture, "Leveraging Informatics to Enable Evidence-Generating Medicine and Create Learning Health Systems," by Peter J. Embi, MD, MS, FACP, FACMI, President and CEO of Regenstrief Institute and Leonard Betley Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine. UPenn PRC Director Karen Glanz will start things off with her presentation of “Food and Nutrition Environments: Is There an…
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