Moving from Proclamations to New Practices. $200K grant funding was provided to develop a tool that will allow us to confront racism in health care.

Penn Researchers to Study the Impact of Environmental and Economic Interventions on Reducing Health Disparities in Black Philadelphia Neighborhoods with Nearly $10M Grant

To Combat Gun Violence, Clean Up the Neighborhood

Fighting Crime With Home Renovations. Research shows that funding big repairs for a damaged house can affect the crime rate for an entire city block.

Philly’s violence crisis can be reduced by tackling our housing repair crisis. Gun violence, charting a record pace for homicides this year, presents a difficult and deadly problem.

Philly home repair grants linked to decreased neighborhood crime, Penn study finds.

Community Violence Intervention Webinar Series: Place-based Approaches. Presentations from and discussions among experts on how place-based approaches can reduce/ prevent community violence and crime.

Are targeted investments in structural repairs to homes of low-income owners associated with reduced crime in Black urban neighborhoods?

Vaccine hesitancy threatens to undermine herd immunity goal. CNN interview on racism and COVID vaccine disparities with Pamela Brown.

How green space is improving health and wellbeing in cities.