Faculty

Recent News:

• August 6

  Humans of Penn Nursing: Allison Gelfarb, Nu’20, BSN

  “This past semester I completed an independent study on Nurse Leadership in the time of a Pandemic, and the Effect of the Coronavirus on Mental Health of Nurses.
  
• August 5

  Moving the Needle on Faculty Diversity

  In the wake of major social changes, public and private sector entities across the nation have taken steps to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion. Yet while college student bodies have become more racially and ethnically diverse, there is still a dearth of underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in higher education.

  
  
• August 3

  Tackling the Bioethics Challenges Raised by COVID-19

  The diverse situations experienced by health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic often present serious ethical challenges. From the allocation of resources and triage protocols to health-care worker and patient rights and the management of clinical trials, new ethical questions have come to the forefront of today’s global public health emergency.

  
  
• July 23

  A New Approach to Aiding Black Male Trauma Survivors

  Penn Nursing and Drexel study evaluates pathways to psychological help-seeking behavior.

  
  
• July 22

  Penn Nursing’s Alison Buttenheim, PhD, MBA, Appointed to NAM COVID Vaccine Committee

  The goal of the ad hoc committee  on Equitable Allocation of Vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus is to develop an overarching framework for vaccine allocation to assist policymakers in the domestic and global health communities in planning for equitable allocation of vaccines against COVID-19.