Emma Ferrante
Emma Britez Ferrante graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Health and Societies and a concentration in Gender and Health. She is interested in the social determinants of health, particularly for children and minority women, and addressing population health outcomes through community outreach. She is currently a Clinical Research Coordinator at the PAIR Center at the Perelman School of Medicine.
As a SUMR scholar, Ferrante worked on projects with Dr. Rinad Beidas, PhD and with Dr. Jessica Dine, MD, MSHP. The ARCH Lab, led by Dr. Beidas, focuses on using implementation science to improve the health outcomes of underrepresented groups. She worked on a variety of projects in the ARCH Lab, including ALACRITY, which supports optimizing treatments for mental disorders and organizing and delivering mental health services, and FACTS, which aims to measure the use of cognitive behavioral therapy. With Dr. Dine, Emma studied inter-professional collaboration in health care delivery using a reductionist approach and complexity theory and gender bias in medical training and evaluation.
At Penn, Ferrante was the Coordinator for the Physical Science department of Moelis Access Science, a STEM teaching and tutoring partnership between Penn’s Netter Center and West Philadelphia public schools. She loved creating interactive lessons and traveling to the high schools each week to work with the students. She also served as the Vice President of Academic Excellence for the Kappa Iota chapter of Sigma Kappa, where she was responsible for maintaining academic resources for the chapter. Finally, she worked as a General Chemistry peer tutor for Penn’s Tutoring Center. In her free time, Emma enjoys cooking, singing, and spending time with her family.