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The first intervention is creating and building a community co-designed micro park space in a formerly greened vacant lot. The second intervention consists of a digital health intervention including a nature coach working with participants to increase the amount of time they spend outside in nature. We are working in 6 predominantly Black Philadelphia neighborhoods and tracking mental health and wellbeing outcomes. PI: Eugenia C. 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Abby’s research interests include reproductive health, harm reduction as it relates to substance use disorder, and the health of incarcerated populations. Broadly she is interested in research that centers lived experienced and amplifies and incorporates community input. In addition to her research work Abby is involved in Emergency Medicine’s Antiracism Task Force at Penn. Abby is passionate about work that aims to dismantle structural racism and the health disparities that result from it. 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She specializes in community-academic partnerships, strategic planning, organizational development, culture building, and high-impact communications. Nicole serves as the Director of the Penn Medicine Center for Health Justice and is the co-founder and Co-Director of the Penn Community Scholars Program and the REACH Initiative (Research and Equity in Academic-Community Partnerships for Health) at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2011, she founded and continues to lead a Philadelphia-based consulting firm dedicated to providing customized training, technical assistance, and strategic solutions to enhance the sustainability and impact of academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, and small businesses. Nicole holds a Master of Business Administration from Temple University and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Kutztown University. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Higher Education Management at the University of Pennsylvania. https://www.urbanhealthlab.org/kehinde-oyekanmi daily 0.75 2023-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/ff52f563-4546-4efc-9fc5-569f6d11004a/UHL+-+Team+Member+Page+Photos+%283%29.png Kehinde Oyekanmi - Kehinde Oyekanmi, MPH | Project Manager Kehinde Oyekanmi is a Project Manager in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where she manages studies that examine the risk and protective factors in urban neighborhood environments for health and safety. Prior to this, she worked as a research assistant on projects that focused on obesity prevention, oral and renal health, and the assessment of parental driving behaviors in relation to motor vehicle crashes. 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She has prior experience in philanthropic advising, focusing on driving high-impact investment in mental health and substance use programs, policy advocacy, and research. She has also worked in community and economic development. 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South, MD, MS | Faculty Director Eugenia (Gina) South is the Ralph Muller Presidential Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. She is the Faculty Director for the Penn Medicine Center for Health Justice as well as Associate Vice President of Health Justice for the University of Pennsylvania Health System. The vision of the Center for Health Justice is to enable health through racial, economic, and environmental justice for Black, Brown, and other people and neighborhoods harmed by structural inequity. The Center has two broad portfolios: (a) research and community action led by the Urban Health Lab and (b) health system operations led by the Health Justice Transformation group. Dr. South has studied a variety of place-based interventions including vacant lot greening, abandoned house remediation, tree planting, and structural repairs to homes, demonstrating an impact on gun violence prevention, and mental and physical health. Her research is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Commonwealth Fund. Her work has been published in JAMA, NEJM, PNAS, and AJPH, and been covered by national and international media outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and NPR. Dr. South is also passionate about infusing joy, hope, and peace into the lives of mentees, staff, and colleagues. She is guided by her core values of authenticity, caring, and rest, and seeks to create a work environment where all can thrive. 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The fundamental cause of these striking and pervasive disparities is structural racism – the confluence of deep historical, institutional, cultural, and ideological forces that unequally distribute resources and risks across racialized groups. Most notably, longstanding, systematic disinvestment has resulted in highly segregated Black neighborhoods with dilapidated environmental conditions and severe economic insecurity within Black households, leading to a “feedback loop of concentrated racial disadvantage,” all of which have been strongly tied to poor health. Most interventions seeking to address racial health disparities focus on individual-level behaviors and outcomes, or individual channels by which structural racism harms health. However, by failing to address upstream social determinants, these interventions have had limited population level impact. In partnership with the Opportunity for Health Lab, this project tests a radically different approach in which we intervene on multiple upstream drivers of health in unison to more substantially and durably improve health among Black Americans. Specifically, we will deliver a suite of environmental and economic focused interventions: Environmental: Vacant lot greening, tree planting, trash cleanup Economic: Connection to public benefits, tax-preparation, financial counseling, emergency cash grants PI: Eugenia C. South, MD, MS and Atheen Venkataramani, MD, PhD Partners: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Clarifi, Campaign for Working Families Funder: National Institutes of Health https://www.urbanhealthlab.org/lift-every-voice daily 0.75 2023-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/ad93a02b-1d1b-4867-849d-0abfdc698649/UHL+Website+Project+Description+Visuals+%285%29.png Lift Every Voice - Lift Every Voice Experiences of racism, bias, and discrimination in the workplace are common for Black and other minoritized individuals. The negative impact of these experiences is profound; clinicians and other staff experience stunted career development and isolation, and patient care and outcomes suffer. And yet, there are often no mechanism in place to regularly collect and intervene on these daily experiences of racism. Leaders often have a blind spot with regard to what is happening on-the-ground in the workplaces they oversee. Lift Every Voice is a low-friction, anonymous digital platform design to actively collect experiences and observations of racism, spark conversation among staff, and catalyze antiracist action among leaders and intervene on experiences of racism in the healthcare workplace. PI: Eugenia C. South, MD, MS Physician Leads: Kristyn Smith, DO (Department of Emergency Medicine) and Abike James, MD, MPH (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology) Partners: Center for Health Care Innovation, Center for Digital Health, Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Funder: The Commonwealth Fund https://www.urbanhealthlab.org/impactold daily 0.75 2021-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1635006624643-ATPAPF9MCEGTR3BQK01U/Screen+Shot+2021-10-21+at+6.20.08+PM.png Impact - old - The Commonwealth Fund Publication & Funding “Confronting Racism in Health Care: Moving from Proclamations to New Practices” | 10.18.21 Add description… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1635006956268-3QHEYPQZAX3W8LPVIOGY/Screen+Shot+2021-10-21+at+6.19.50+PM.png Impact - old - NIH $10 Million Grant Funding Penn Researchers to Study the Impact of Environmental and Economic Interventions on Reducing Health Disparities in Black Philadelphia Neighborhoods with Nearly $10M Grant | 10.13.21 The grant will fund research to investigate the impact of neighborhood place-based and financial well-being interventions, targeting the root causes of structural racism that contribute to poor health in Black communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1635006174500-LMXUZZY2SYAQEZV4FGVS/Screen+Shot+2021-10-21+at+6.20.28+PM.png Impact - old - The New York Times Guest Essay “To Combat Gun Violence, Clean Up the Neighborhood” | 10.08.21 Add description… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1635008887119-FI6BKRQB21YWKYW764RQ/Screen+Shot+2021-10-23+at+1.06.31+PM.png Impact - old - The Wall Street Journal Article “Fighting Crime With Home Renovations” | 08.26.21 “Research shows that funding big repairs for a damaged house can affect the crime rate for an entire city block.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1635008657362-5PI0HFJMBX0C6HC2W4HM/Screen+Shot+2021-10-23+at+1.03.52+PM.png Impact - old - The Philadelphia Inquirer Opinion “Philly’s violence crisis can be reduced by tackling our housing repair crisis | Editorial” | 08.13.21 “Philadelphia’s gun violence, charting a record pace for homicides this year, presents a difficult and deadly problem. But recent research points to a solution that could save lives.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1635008373855-1LG6VL0C766NNCDUAY7R/Screen+Shot+2021-10-23+at+12.59.04+PM.png Impact - old - The Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial “Philadelphia home repair grants linked to decreased neighborhood crime, Penn study finds” | 07.26.21 “When you’re thinking about gun violence prevention, there’s no one thing that’s going to get rid of it,” lead author Eugenia South said. “You need to have a multifaceted approach to prevention.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1635008045911-ODSWFZEHT7206HI8402U/Screen+Shot+2021-10-23+at+12.53.42+PM.png Impact - old - White House Community Violence Intervention Webinar “Place Matters” | 07.21.21 This expert-led webinar includes discussions on how place-based approaches can reduce and prevent community violence and crime by enhancing and maintaining the physical characteristics of settings where people come together in order to foster social interaction, strengthen connectedness, and increase collective efficacy. Presenters highlight the importance of community engagement within place-based approaches and discuss how incorporating community revitalization efforts, such as increasing green spaces and addressing abandoned buildings can reduce and prevent community violence. The presentation also includes a discussion on the Biden Administration’s investments in CVI. https://www.urbanhealthlab.org/sparrow daily 0.75 2022-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/3a17ded4-cff2-4994-9e27-f972537476c4/UHL+Website+Project+Description+Visuals+%281%29.png SPARROw - SPARROw In this project, we are evaluating two City efforts taking place in Kensington, the neighborhood with the city’s highest overdose rate and high rates of poverty, homelessness, and dilapidated neighborhood conditions. Experiencing an overdose often brings people who use opioids into contact with healthcare providers and represents an opportunity to improve outcomes through harm reduction and care linkage. The Alternative Response Unit (AR2) aims to close this gap by engaging people who use opioids at the time and place of their overdose. The AR2 responds to all 911 calls for overdose and if the patient does not want to go with traditional EMS to the hospital, AR2 is able to connect the patient directly to treatment services. Dilapidated neighborhood conditions are associated with drug sales, substance use, and morbidity. The city is focusing remediation efforts in Kensington, including abatement of vacant lots and cleaning and sealing of abandoned houses. SPARROw studies the impact of these interventions on opioid overdose outcomes. PI: Eugenia C. South, MD MS and Zachary Meisel, MD, MS Partners: Philadelphia Fire Department, Philadelphia Health Department, Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disabilities, Managing Directors Office Funder: Center for Disease Control and Prevention https://www.urbanhealthlab.org/impact daily 0.75 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1639849539371-945TO8H4Z7OBE2ZADZUJ/UHL+Website+Impact+Visuals+%289%29.png Impact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1639849558180-N8RRGFJQRNP86INDVQGF/UHL+Website+Impact+Visuals+%288%29.png Impact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1639849571629-8BIQC7F1QTFQ0MG59578/UHL+Website+Impact+Visuals+%287%29.png Impact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1639849610490-O44IMGUH2STYM4BBJ9R8/UHL+Website+Impact+Visuals+%285%29.png Impact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1639849640722-RS1MPFBLFP9AL261AHMH/UHL+Website+Impact+Visuals+%284%29.png Impact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1639849704999-UWXOVVGCU87MWYVGI7V3/UHL+Website+Impact+Visuals+%282%29.png Impact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1639849730573-YTVR3YC7PEICBB32O1XR/UHL+Website+Impact+Visuals.png Impact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1639849893988-T2XF6PVGBPQNZGZAGDO5/UHL+Website+Impact+Visuals+%2810%29.png Impact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1639849995443-J2BB9YAYYPFR7LNN1VV0/UHL+Website+Impact+Visuals+%2813%29.png Impact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1639850045840-3RHBB5QHI460TPXXQFBH/UHL+Website+Impact+Visuals+%2814%29.png Impact https://www.urbanhealthlab.org/impact-2 daily 0.75 2021-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1635006624643-ATPAPF9MCEGTR3BQK01U/Screen+Shot+2021-10-21+at+6.20.08+PM.png Impact (Copy) - The Commonwealth Fund Publication & Funding “Confronting Racism in Health Care: Moving from Proclamations to New Practices” | 10.18.21 Add description… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1635006956268-3QHEYPQZAX3W8LPVIOGY/Screen+Shot+2021-10-21+at+6.19.50+PM.png Impact (Copy) - NIH $10 Million Grant Funding Penn Researchers to Study the Impact of Environmental and Economic Interventions on Reducing Health Disparities in Black Philadelphia Neighborhoods with Nearly $10M Grant | 10.13.21 The grant will fund research to investigate the impact of neighborhood place-based and financial well-being interventions, targeting the root causes of structural racism that contribute to poor health in Black communities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1635006174500-LMXUZZY2SYAQEZV4FGVS/Screen+Shot+2021-10-21+at+6.20.28+PM.png Impact (Copy) - The New York Times Guest Essay “To Combat Gun Violence, Clean Up the Neighborhood” | 10.08.21 Add description… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1635008887119-FI6BKRQB21YWKYW764RQ/Screen+Shot+2021-10-23+at+1.06.31+PM.png Impact (Copy) - The Wall Street Journal Article “Fighting Crime With Home Renovations” | 08.26.21 “Research shows that funding big repairs for a damaged house can affect the crime rate for an entire city block.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1635008657362-5PI0HFJMBX0C6HC2W4HM/Screen+Shot+2021-10-23+at+1.03.52+PM.png Impact (Copy) - The Philadelphia Inquirer Opinion “Philly’s violence crisis can be reduced by tackling our housing repair crisis | Editorial” | 08.13.21 “Philadelphia’s gun violence, charting a record pace for homicides this year, presents a difficult and deadly problem. But recent research points to a solution that could save lives.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1635008373855-1LG6VL0C766NNCDUAY7R/Screen+Shot+2021-10-23+at+12.59.04+PM.png Impact (Copy) - The Philadelphia Inquirer Editorial “Philadelphia home repair grants linked to decreased neighborhood crime, Penn study finds” | 07.26.21 “When you’re thinking about gun violence prevention, there’s no one thing that’s going to get rid of it,” lead author Eugenia South said. “You need to have a multifaceted approach to prevention.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1635008045911-ODSWFZEHT7206HI8402U/Screen+Shot+2021-10-23+at+12.53.42+PM.png Impact (Copy) - White House Community Violence Intervention Webinar “Place Matters” | 07.21.21 This expert-led webinar includes discussions on how place-based approaches can reduce and prevent community violence and crime by enhancing and maintaining the physical characteristics of settings where people come together in order to foster social interaction, strengthen connectedness, and increase collective efficacy. Presenters highlight the importance of community engagement within place-based approaches and discuss how incorporating community revitalization efforts, such as increasing green spaces and addressing abandoned buildings can reduce and prevent community violence. The presentation also includes a discussion on the Biden Administration’s investments in CVI. https://www.urbanhealthlab.org/impact-test-home-dup daily 0.75 2021-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1634911592303-01V8IEA50G0BLEQY1LZ8/Screen+Shot+2021-10-21+at+6.19.50+PM.png Impact Test (home dup) “Black communities are centered in this proposal” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1634854898301-Z7FYKEI8C131KTHJ993R/Screen+Shot+2021-10-21+at+6.20.28+PM.png Impact Test (home dup) - 10/18 The New York Times, Guest Essay “To Combat Gun Violence, Clean Up the Neighborhood” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/1634911442105-VTR2AD5OTDGO6YE9A71A/Screen+Shot+2021-10-21+at+6.20.08+PM.png Impact Test (home dup) “Confronting Racism in Health Care: Moving from Proclamations to New Practices” https://www.urbanhealthlab.org/edpatientracism daily 0.75 2022-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/d562857a-590d-45c3-bee8-3ba80e0c5d2b/UHL+Website+Project+Description+Visuals+%286%29.png ED Patient Experiences of Racism - A Patient-Centered Approach to Identify, Explore and Address Experiences of Racism in the Emergency Department A patient-centered approach to effectively address and dismantle racism in healthcare remains under-explored. Emergency departments provide safety-net care for many Black communities and are ideal settings to begin this investigation. This study will use remote patient engagement (text messaging) and qualitative methods to investigate Black patient perceptions of racism during visits to the emergency department, to guide institutional change. 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Large racial disparities exist in both HDP and maternal mortality. Identifying strategies to prevent HDP would have a significant impact on reducing persistent Black-white disparities in both maternal mortality and long-term cardiovascular disease. The role of neighborhood environments in shaping health is understudied and represents a potential way to address HDP and chronic hypertension (cHTN). Neighborhood conditions, including physical disorder, residential segregation, and violent crime, have been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes, including HDP. Greenspace (e.g., tree canopy, parks) represents a potentially health-promoting aspect of the neighborhood environment and has been linked to improved perinatal outcomes, including lower preterm birth rates. Green GeoBirth evaluates the impact of neighborhood greenspace on cardiovascular pregnancy and post-pregnancy outcomes. This study leverages both electronic health record data collected through a large birth cohort and administrative environmental data related to nature. PI: Heather Burris, MD, MPH; Eugenia South, MD, MS Funders: National Institutes of Health (NIH) https://www.urbanhealthlab.org/research daily 0.75 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/93526fca-2f3f-4dca-81f3-6b252ee5b19e/UHL+Website+Project+Visuals+%283%29.png Research - IGNITE This trial tests a suite of environmental and economic interventions to determine the impact of concentrated investment on health, wellbeing, and safety for residents of Black neighborhoods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/4ea3a675-7506-47de-960b-2876fad4b474/UHL+Website+Project+Visuals.png Research - Nature and Wellbeing Project Living near and spending time in nature is associated with a host of mental and physical health benefits, but there is limited evidence on how to nudge people to spend more time outside. The goal of this study is to increase the amount of time people spend outside in nature and determine the impact on mental health and wellbeing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/e8011774-ae67-435c-9c8c-ceb5973e4c4b/UHL+Website+Project+Visuals+%284%29.png Research - SPARROw The City of Philadelphia has the second highest opioid overdose death rate in the United States. This study evaluates two unique overdose prevention efforts developed by the City of Philadelphia, including an alternative ambulance unit that can connect patients who have overdosed directly to treatment and neighborhood environment interventions that address the blighted conditions where most overdoses occur. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/3240e356-fc50-4e9d-ab4b-4f35bb5df004/GREEN+GEOBIRTH.png Research - Green GeoBirth Green GeoBirth Green GeoBirth evaluates the impact of neighborhood greenspace on cardiovascular pregnancy and post-pregnancy outcomes. This study leverages both electronic health record data collected through a large birth cohort and administrative environmental data related to nature. https://www.urbanhealthlab.org/community-action daily 0.75 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/af8574ae-44db-4b22-98c4-7cd8a632cee8/UHL+Website+Project+Intro+Visuals+%281%29.png Community Action - Deeply Rooted Deeply Rooted is a community-academic collaborative that uses the healing power of nature to promote health and wellbeing in Black and Brown Philadelphia neighborhoods. https://www.urbanhealthlab.org/health-system daily 0.75 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/614f9148e5ddf120844540b2/14c07e6f-2468-47f6-9837-d4aee3c4dcdf/UHL+Website+Project+Visuals+%286%29.png Health System - Lift Every Voice Experiences of racism, bias, and discrimination in the workplace are common for Black and other minoritized individuals, and yet there are few mechanisms through which staff can report these experiences. Lift Every Voice a low-friction, anonymous digital platform to actively collect and intervene on experiences of racism in the healthcare workplace.