Please join us for LDI's Annual Health Policy Retreat, an event exclusively for LDI Fellows to come together to stimulate interdisciplinary research, foster campus-wide interactions, and networking with colleagues, old and new.
This year’s day will feature 5-minute lightning talks and a poster session with Fellows presenting current research and initiatives, a conversation on health care reform proposals between Zeke Emanuel (Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, and Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor at Penn) and Robert Moffit (Senior Fellow, Health Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation), and a hands-on session on successfully pitching your research to the media led by Dan Gorenstein, founder of the new podcast Tradeoffs. The event is free of charge, but please register by January 10th. Please note, this event is open to LDI fellows only.
AGENDA
8 – 8:30
Registration
8:30
Welcome, Rachel Werner, Executive Director of LDI
8:45 – 9:30
Lightning Talk Session #1: Vulnerable Populations
9:30 – 10:30
Poster Session and Networking Breakfast
10:30 – 11:15
Conversation on Health Care Reform
11:20 – 12:05
Lightning Talk Session #2: Coverage and Delivery
12:10 – 12:25
Break and Pick Up Lunch
12:25 – 1:35
Lunch – Successfully Pitching Your Research
1:45 – 2:30
Lightning Talk Session #3: Public Health Epidemics: Opioids and Violence
For more details and registration please contact pennldi-info@wharton.upenn.edu.
Crime rates have dropped substantially in the United States, but incarceration rates have remained high. The standard explanation for the lasting trend in incarceration is that the sentencing policy choices from the 1980s and 1990s permanently increased punitiveness: i.e. a long-standing period effect. Our paper examines an alternative explanation that the crime waves in the 1980s and 1990s created cohort differences in incarceration over the life course that changed the level of incarceration even decades after the crime wave. With individual level longitudinal sentencing data from 1972 to 2016 in North Carolina, we find clear evidence that period effects played a relatively minor role in comparison to cohort effects in the secular trends in incarceration. The birth cohorts that reach prime age of crime during the 1990s crime wave have elevated rates of incarceration throughout their observed life course. The key mechanism for their elevated incarceration rates decades after the crime wave is the accumulation of extended criminal history under a sentencing structure that systematically escalates punishment for those with priors.
Hosted by Rob Busher.
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The Innovating for Life and Living Campaign Tour is coming to New York City! Join Penn Nursing on our last tour stop for an exciting conversation as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research with its founder and director, Dr. Linda Aiken.
Join us at Penn’s Global Oncology Symposium as we explore the ethical considerations of delivering high-quality, global cancer care.
All are welcome at Penn’s inaugural Global Oncology Symposium as we explore the ethical considerations of bringing high-quality cancer care to patients around the world. Experts from across the country and globe are convening in Philadelphia to discuss the importance and challenges of building international partnerships; making tough decisions on clinical treatment and resource allocation; and advocating for global cancer control. Our keynote speaker is Dr. Sheila Davis, CEO of Partners in Health. Breakfast and lunch will be served.
Additional speakers include Dr. Rebecca DeBoer, oncologist and medical ethics researcher at the University of California San Francisco and Dr. Ruth Damuse, oncology clinical director at Partners in Health Haiti. The symposium also features panel discussions on clinical cancer care in resource-limited settings and collaborative partnerships in global oncology moderated by Dr. Yedoha Martei and Dr. Larry Shulman from the University of Pennsylvania.
Free Registration: https://penn-go-symposium.eventbrite.com/
Breakfast and lunch will be served.
Health care reform has taken center stage during presidential primary season, as candidates offer diverse proposals to expand insurance coverage and contain costs. This one-day conference draws together researchers, policymakers, providers, and other stakeholders to dive into key and thorny issues with no easy answers.
Keynot speaker:
Paul Starr, Ph.D. -- Princeton University
Panel moderators:
Sherry Glied, Ph.D. -- New York University
Julian Harris, M.D. -- Deerfield Management
Allison Hoffman, J.D. -- University of Pennsylvania
Rodney Whitlock, Ph.D. -- McDermott+Consulting
Register here.
Questions? Contact Melissa Ostroff