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Affiliated PhD Student

Audrey Blewer

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Doctoral Candidate, Department of Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

About

Audrey L Blewer, MPH, is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology and the Assistant Director for Educational Programs at the Center for Resuscitation Science. Prior to her arrival at the University of Pennsylvania, Audrey completed a master’s degree in public health at the University of Florida. Ms. Blewer’s scholarly interests lie at the intersection of resuscitation science, health disparities research, health education, and implementation science. In her current work, Ms. Blewer is examining how CPR training dissemination strategies can be expanded, and tailored, to target geographic, racial, and socioeconomic disparities in layperson CPR education and bystander CPR delivery. 

 

Faculty Fellow

Carolyn Cannuscio

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Associate Professor

About

Carolyn Cannuscio is Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Perelman School of Medicine and Director of Research for Center for Public Health Initiatives. She is committed to improving the health of populations, especially disadvantaged urban populations, through her scholarship and public health practice. This work is strengthened by collaborations with vibrant interdisciplinary teams and dedicated community partners. Dr. Cannuscio completed her training at Brown University and the Harvard School of Public Health with leaders in social and chronic disease epidemiology. She first came to Penn as a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar and then became a member of the faculty, where she has worked to address the critical social problems driving health disparities, with a focus on population health dynamics in Philadelphia—the poorest of the United States’ 10 largest cities. She is committed to strengthening cross-sectoral partnerships with organizations that have been largely untapped as agents for promoting population health, such as public libraries (notably the Free Library of Philadelphia) and arts institutions (including the City of Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program). Dr. Cannuscio is also involved in a range of projects to advance evidence-based practices for the prevention/management of important public health concerns (e.g., the opioid epidemic, food insecurity/(un)healthy food access, and food allergies). She is dedicated to using her skills, experience, partnerships, and position at Penn to answer the Institute of Medicine’s call to “eliminate health inequities and improve health for all.”

Selected Publications

Hailu, T., C.C. Cannuscio, R. Dupuis, and J. Karlawish. 2017. “A typical day with mild cognitive impairment.” American Journal of Public Health 107(6): 927-928. 

Morgan, A.U.; R. Dupuis, E.D. Whiteman, B. D’Alonzo, and C.C. Cannuscio. 2017. “Our Doors Are Open to Everybody: Public Libraries as Common Ground for Public Health.” Journal of Urban Health-Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 94(1).

Golinkoff, A., Moriah Hall; Willie Baronet, Carolyn Cannuscio, and Rosemary Frasso. 2016. “Cardboard Commentary: A Qualitative Analysis of the Signs From America’s Streets.” American Journal of Public Health 106(11).

Affiliated PhD Student

Alison Culyba

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Doctoral Candidate, Department of Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

About

Alison Culyba, MD MPH, is an Adolescent Medicine Advanced Research Fellow at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Epidemiology PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania with expertise in strengths-based approaches to youth violence prevention. She completed medical school at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, residency training in Internal Medicine-Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and fellowship training in Adolescent Medicine at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She obtained an MPH from Harvard University with a focus on adolescent health and injury prevention. Her clinical experiences caring for violence-affected youth in West Philadelphia motivate and inform her research efforts. Her research focuses on the role of individual, family, and neighborhood-level promotive factors in reducing violence involvement among youth in urban environments. Employing novel GIS methods, her current research examines the role of supportive adult family members in reducing the risk of severe assault injuries among male youth in urban environments. 

 

Selected Publications

Wiebe DJ, Blackstone MM, Mollen CJ, Culyba AJ, Fein JA.: Self-Reported Violence-Related Outcomes for Adolescents within Eight Weeks of Emergency Department Treatment for Assault Injury.  J AD Health. 49(4): 440-442, Oct: 2011.

 

Affiliated PhD Student

Ari Friedman

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MD/PhD Candidate in Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania

About

Ari B. Friedman is a Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute and a sixth-year M.D./Ph.D. student in health economics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School. His research interests include the industrial organization of the unscheduled care system (primary care clinics, urgent care and retail clinics, and emergency departments), access to care and insurance, and financially integrating population health into the medical system. His work has been cited more than 600 times, with an h-index of 8.

 

Selected Publications

Friedman AB. Comment on Economic Incentives and Use of the Intensive Care Unit. JAMA 2014. 311(22):2336-2337.

Rhodes KV, Kenney GM, Friedman AB, Saloner B, Lawson CC, Chearo D, Wissoker D, Polsky D. Primary Care Access for New Patients on the Eve of Health Care Reform. JAMA Int Med 2014.

Becker NV, Friedman AB. Emergency Department, Heal Thyself. Am J Emerg Med 2014. 32(2):175-177.

Friedman AB, Mendola T. To Cover Their Child, One Couple Navigates A Health Insurance Maze In Pennsylvania. Health Affairs2013. 32(5):994-997.

Friedman AB, Becker N. Understanding the Individual Mandate’s SCOTUS Pivot Points. LDI Health Economist. April 2012.VIDEO

 

Faculty Fellow

Karen Glanz

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George A. Weiss University Professor, Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Professor of Nursing

Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Adjunct Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

About

Karen Glanz is George A. Weiss University Professor, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology in the Perelman School of Medicine, and Professor of Nursing in the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences in the School of Nursing and Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She is Director of the UPenn Prevention Research Center and serves on the NHLBI Advisory Council at the National Institutes of Health. Her research seeks to understand health behavior and improve it through education, public policy, and organizational change. A globally influential public health scholar, her work spans psychology, epidemiology, nutrition, and other disciplines. Her research in community and health care settings covers healthy eating, obesity prevention, cancer prevention and control, chronic disease management and control, reducing health disparities, and health communication technologies. She has published more than 440 journal articles and book chapters. Thomson Reuters named her one of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015” in general social sciences. The Institute for Scientific Information has named her a Most Highly Cited Researcher. Over the past 15 years, Glanz has received more than $45 million in research funding. 

Selected Publications

Cain KL, Gavand KA, Conway TL, Geremia CM, Millstein RA, Frank LD, Saelens BE, Adams MA, Glanz K, King AC, Sallis JF. 2017 (in press). “Developing and validating an abbreviated version of the Microscale Audit for Pedestrian Streetscapes (MAPS-Abbreviated).” Journal of Transport & Health.

Wang X, Conway TL, Cain KL, Frank LD, Saelens BE, Geremia C, Kerr J, Glanz K, Carlson JA, Sallis JF. 2017 (in press). “Interactions of psychosocial factors with built environments in explaining adolescents’ active transportation.” Preventive Medicine.

Carlson JA, Mitchell TB, Saelens BE, Staggs VS, Kerr J, Frank LD, Schipperijn J, Conway TL, Glanz K, Chapman JE, Cain KL, Sallis JF. 2017 (in press). “Within-person associations of young adolescents’ physical activity across five primary locations: Is there evidence of cross-location compensation?” International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity.

James P, Hart JE, Hipp JA, Mitchell JA, Kerr J, Hurvitz PM, Glanz K, Laden F. 2017 (in press). “GPS-based exposure to greenness and walkability and accelerometry-based physical activity.” Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

Glanz K, Johnson L, Yaroch A, Phillips M, Ayala G, Davis E. 2016. “Measures of Retail Food Store Environments and Sales:  Review and Implications for Healthy Eating Initiatives.” Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 48: 280-288.

Faculty Fellow

Eliza Davenport Whiteman

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Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine & Community Health

About

Eliza is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health at the Perelman School of Medicine. Her research interests focus on issues of food access and food insecurity in urban environments. She uses a mixed-methods approach to explore spatiotemporal dynamics of food and health across the urban planning, public health and social welfare disciplines. She received a MPH and PhD in City & Regional Planning from the University Of Pennsylvania, MS in Nutrition Policy and an MA in Urban & Environmental Planning from Tufts University and a BA in Sustainable Agriculture from The Evergreen State College. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked on city food policy issues at the Baltimore Food Policy Initiative, and in Portland, Oregon, where she served on the Portland-Multnomah Food Policy Council and worked at a non-profit food education organization. 

Selected Publications

Kinsey EW, Widen E, Quinn JW, Huynh M, Van Wye G, Lovasi GS, Neckerman K, Rundle A: Neighborhood walkability and poverty predict excessive gestational weight gain: A cross-sectional study in New York City. Obesity (Silver Spring) 30(2): 503-514, Feb 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1002/oby.23339; Epub 2022 Jan 23.

Widen EM, Burns N, Daniels M, Backlund G, Rickman R, Foster S, Nichols AR, Hoepner L, Kinsey EW, Ramirez-Carvey J, Hassoun A, Perera FP, Bukowski R, Rundle AG: Gestational weight change and childhood body composition trajectories from pregnancy to early adolescence. Obesity (Silver Spring) Feb 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1002/oby.23367; Online ahead of print.

Lee MM, Kinsey EW, Kenney EL.: U.S. Nutrition Assistance Program Participation and Childhood Obesity: The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study 2011. Am J Prev Med Apr 2022.

Hecht AA, Dunn CG, Kinsey EW, Read MA, Levi R, Richardson AS, Hager ER, Seligman HK.: Estimates of the Nutritional Impact of Non-Participation in the National School Lunch Program during COVID-19 School Closures. Nutrients 14: 1387, Mar 2022.

Lowenstein M, Feuerstein-Simon R, Sheni R, Dupuis R, Kinsey EW, Marti XL, Cannuscio CC: Public libraries as partners in confronting the overdose crisis: A qualitative analysis. Substance Abuse 42(3): 302-309, 2021 Notes: doi: 10.1080/08897077.2019.1691129; Epub 2019 Dec 18.

Kinsey EW, Hecht AA, Dunn CG, Levi R, Read MA, Smith C, Niesen P, Seligman HK, Hager ER: School Closures During COVID-19: Opportunities for Innovation in Meal Service. American Journal of Public Health 110(11): 1635-1643, Nov 2020 Notes: doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305875; Epub 2020 Sep 17.

Kinsey EW, Kinsey D, Rundle AG: COVID-19 and Food Insecurity: An Uneven Patchwork of Responses. Journal of Urban Health 97(3): 332-335, June 2020 Notes: doi:10.1007/s11524-020-00455-5

Rundle AG, Park Y, Herbstman JB, Kinsey EW, Wang CY. : COVID-19 Related School Closings and Risk of Weight Gain Among Children. Obesity (Silver Spring) 28(6): 1008-1009, Jun 2020 Notes: doi: 10.1002/oby.22813; Epub 2020 Apr 18.

Dupuis R, Kinsey EW, Spergel J, Brown-Whitehorn T, Graves A, Samuelson K, Epstein C, Mollen C, Cannuscio CC: Food Allergy Management at School. Journal of School Health 90(5): 395-406, May 2020 Notes: doi: 10.1111/josh.12885. Epub 2020 Mar 2.

Kinsey EW, Dupuis R, Oberle M, Cannuscio CC, Hillier A: Chronic disease self-management within the monthly benefit cycle of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Public Health Nutr 22(12): 2248-2259, Aug 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1017/S1368980019001071; Epub 2019 May 20.

Faculty Fellow

Eliza Whiteman Kinsey

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Assistant Professor

About

Faculty Fellow

Harvey Rubin

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Professor of Medicine

School/Department

Areas of Interest

    About

    Harvey Rubin is Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The NIH, NSF, DARPA, the Global Alliance for TB Drug Discovery, and the Gates Foundation have funded his basic biochemical and genetic research in infectious diseases, resulting in more than 100 peer-reviewed papers. He served on national and international scientific review panels including the NIH, NSF, NASA Intelligent Systems Program, DARPA, and The Medical Research Council, South Africa. He was a member of the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity and the Dept. of Defense/National Academy of Sciences Biological Cooperative Threat Reduction Program. Dr. Rubin is the founder of Energize the Chain, a non-profit organization, and GAVI INFUSE, a funded partner that ensures the delivery of vaccines to people in the most remote regions of the world by utilizing power and connectivity available at cell tower sites to power the refrigeration systems that are necessary to keep vaccines at the proper temperature.

    Faculty Fellow

    Eugenia (Gina) South

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    Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

    Faculty Director, Urban Health Lab

    About

    Gina South is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and a physician-scientist in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on neighborhood effects on health and safety in urban environments. More specifically, she is interested in understanding the ways in which the physical attributes of where people live, work, and play influence cardiovascular and mental health, substance use, and violent crime. She completed a randomized trial of vacant lot greening, including a study of ambulatory heart rate to investigate the impact of an urban blight intervention on toxic stress. Dr. South completed her Medical Degree at Washington University School of Medicine in 2008 and her Masters of Science in Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar between 2010-2012. She is currently in her final year of residency training. During residency, she served as a founding executive board member for the Alliance of Minority Physicians, a collaborative effort between University of Pennsylvania Health System and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. 

    Selected Publications

    Branas CC, Kondo MC, Murphy SM, South EC, Polsky D, MacDonald JM. “Urban blight remediation as a cost-beneficial solution to firearm violence.” American Journal of Public Health. Accepted for publication August 4, 2016.

    Kondo MC, South EC, Branas CC, Richmond TS, Wiebe DJ. “The association between urban tree cover and gun assault: a case-control and case-crossover study.” American Journal of Epidemiology. Accepted for Publication on Sept 12, 2016

    Garvin EC. Op-ed. “Cleaner, greener and healthier.” Philadelphia Inquirer, 2011. November 18.

    Garvin E, Branas C, Keddems S, Sellman J, Cannuscio C. “More than just an eyesore: local insights and solutions on vacant land and urban health.” J Urban Health 90(3):412-26, 2013. PMID: 23188553

    Garvin EC, Cannuscio CC, Branas CC. “Greening vacant lots to reduce violent crime: a randomized controlled trial.”  Inj Prev 19(3):198-203, 2013. PMID: 22871378

    South EC, Kondo MC, Cheney RA, Branas CC. “Neighborhood blight, stress, and health: A walking trial of urban greening and ambulatory heart rate.” Am J Public Health. 2015 May;105(5):909-13. PMID: 25790382

    Kondo MD, South EC, Branas CC. “Nature-based strategies for improving urban health and safety. J Urban Health.” Accepted for publication July 16, 2015. 

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