Attendees packed the 8th floor conference room for the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics’ Methods Matter Conference that looked at how the research of structural racism in health care could be improved and made more effective. Seated on stage are the five members of the “Matching Theory to Methods” panel.
Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD, Executive Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI). (Click images for larger)
Enrique Schisterman, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania.
Members of the “Matching Theory to Methods” panel (l to r) Elaine Hernandez, PhD, MPH; Tyson Brown, PhD; Frank Edwards, PhD; Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD; and Margaret Hicken, PhD, MPH.
Tyson Brown, PhD, Associate Professor of Sociology at Duke University.
Aislinn Bohren, PhD, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts & Sciences and a presenter in the “Measuring and Interpreting Racism and Racial Disparities” session.
Jackie Jahn, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University, and a presenter in the “Measuring and Interpreting Racism and Racial Disparities” session.
Nick Graetz, PhD, MPH, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University Department of Sociology, and a presenter in the “Challenges of Measuring Structural Racism: A Case Study of Redlining” session.
Michael Esposito, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, and a presenter in the “Challenges of Measuring Structural Racism: A Case Study in Redlining” session.
Amaka Eneanya, MD, MPH, Chief Transformation Officer at Emory Healthcare. In the background is Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD, LDI Senior Fellow and Director of the Opportunity for Health Lab at the Perelman School of Medicine. The two presented in the “Race in Clinical Prediction” session of the conference.
LDI Executive Director Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD; Enrique Schisterman, PhD; and LDI Senior Fellow Courtney Boen, PhD, MPGH, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts & Sciences.
Krystal Pleasant, MA, LDI Senior Associate Director of Communications; Mahasin Mujahid, PhD, MS, Associate Professor and Chair of the Epidemiology Division at Berkeley Public Health; Derek Griffith, PhD, Founding Co-Director of the Racial Justice Institute at Georgetown University; Tene Lewis, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University; and Darius McDaniel, MSHP, a Biostatistics Doctoral Student at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health.
Marylin Schapira, MD, MPH, LDI Senior Fellow and Professor of Internal Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine; Aidan Crowley, LDI Associate Fellow and MD/PhD student at the Perelman School; Daria Murosko, MD, MPH, LDI Associate Fellow and Attending Physician in the Division of Neonatology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; and Jasmine Hwang, MD, MS, General Surgery Resident, Penn Medicine.
Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD; Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD, LDI Senior Fellow and Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy; Julia Hinkley, JD, LDI Director of Policy Strategy; and Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH, LDI Director of Health Equity Research and Assistant Professor of General Internal Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine.
Meghan Lane-Fall, MD, MSHP, LDI Senior Fellow and Director of the Penn Implementation Science Center (PISCE) chats with Wanjikũ Njoroge, MD, Medical Director of the Young Child Clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
LDI Senior Fellow Scott Halpern, MD, PhD, Professor of both Medicine and Epidemiology, and Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine; Jackie Jahn, PhD, MPH, of Drexel University; and LDI Senior Fellow David Mandell, ScD, Professor of both Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Perelman School.
Joanne Levy, MBA, MPC, LDI Director of Student Initiatives and Founding Director of the Summer Undergraduate Minority Research (SUMR) program; Alejandra Barreto, MPH, a data analyst at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP); and Leo Velosa, MPH, of the Division of Neonatology at CHOP.
