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Atheendar Venkataramani Receives Milbank Quarterly Early Career Award
Cited for Contributions in Field of Population Health
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LDI Senior Fellow and Penn Medicine Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD, has been named winner of the 2021 Milbank Quarterly Early Career Award.
The honor recognizes significant contributions to population health science by a scientist with 10 years or less experience in the field.
A staff physician at the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, health economist Venkataramani is also Director of the Penn Opportunity for Health Lab, a research group that focuses on life-course origins of health and socioeconomic inequality and policies to reduce health disparities.
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