Eugenia C. South, MD, MS | Faculty Director
Eugenia (Gina) South is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine where she serves as the Vice Chair for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity. She is also the Faculty Director for the Penn Urban Health Lab. Dr. South’s action and research agenda is focused on dismantling structural racism and promoting environmental and economic justice. Her lab develops and tests individual and neighborhood level interventions to improve health and wellbeing for residents in Black and other minoritized communities. She has a particular interest in urban nature and the relationship between nature and health. She has studied a variety of place-based interventions including vacant lot greening, abandoned house remediation, tree planting, and structural repairs to homes.
Her research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her work has been published in JAMA, NEJM, PNAS, and AJPH, as well as been covered by national and international media outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, and Time Magazine.