Teams - University of Pennsylvania Prevention Research Center

Teams

Leadership

Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH, PRC Director

Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, PRC Director

PRC Core Leadership

Community Engagement, Partnerships, & Technical Assistance

David Grande, MD, MPA, Core Co-Lead

Carolyn Cannuscio, ScD, Core Co-Lead

Communication & Dissemination

Training

Douglas Wiebe, PhD, Core Lead

Evaluation

John Holmes, PhD, Core Co-Lead

Internal Advisory Board

Jennifer Pinto-Martin, PhD, MPH, Chair; Internal Advisory Board

Chyke Doubeni, MD, FRCS, MPH, Internal Advisory Board

Frances Barg, PhD, MEd, Internal Advisory Board; Philadelphia Health Leadership Institute

Joseph Cappella, PhD, Internal Advisory Board

Jerry C. Johnson, MD, Internal Advisory Board

Ron Keren, MD, MPH, Internal Advisory Board

Daniel Polsky, PhD, Co-Investigator; The Healthy Weigh Study, Internal Advisory Board Member

Community Advisory Board

Glenn Bryan, MSW, Community Advisory Board

Natalie Levkovich, Community Advisory Board

Allison Karpyn, PhD, Community Advisory Board

Bill McKinney, PhD, Community Advisory Board

Carol Rogers, PA, Community Advisory Board

Q & A Spotlight

Carolyn Cannuscio, ScD, Core Co-Lead
What are the goals of your research?
I am a social epidemiologist by training; much of my work is focused on urban health disparities. I am very interested in how health is affected by where we live, so I am intrigued by such questions as “Why do certain neighborhoods have much higher rates of infant mortality than others just a few miles away?” These topics not only interest me in an epidemiological sense, but also in an equity sense: why do such disparities exist in a country, such as the US, that has such a great amount of wealth and resources? The overarching theme of my work is to investigate how our material conditions impact our well-being.