For May’s CHEA Spotlight, we are featuring an amazing CHEA fellow, Michelle Munyikwa, MD, PhD. Michelle graduated from the joint MD/PhD program in anthropology in 2021. Currently, she is a resident physician in internal medicine and pediatrics at Penn Medicine ...

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Penn Medicine’s 7th Annual Health Equity Week last week! We held 8 events, including panel discussions and lectures, throughout the week with over 1000 people registered! A diverse set of presenters provided ...

Congratulations to the winners of our Equity Initiative Awards for Health Equity Week 2022! We had many amazing abstract submissions and were thrilled to choose 1 winner for each of the 4 categories (Quality Improvement, Innovation in Medical Education, Research, ...

For March’s CHEA Spotlight, we are featuring Dr. Eve Higginbotham, SM, MD, ML! She is the inaugural Vice Dean for Inclusion and Diversity of the Perelman School of Medicine and sits at the head of the Office of Inclusion, Diversity, ...

For February’s CHEA Spotlight, we are featuring another one of our impressive CHEA fellows: Emmanuella Asabor! Emmanuella is an MD/PhD candidate studying epidemiology at Yale University. She received her MPhil in African Studies from the University of Cambridge. Additionally, she ...

CHEA is proud to announce that Cell Press chose our fellow, Dr. Elle Lett, as the 2021 post-graduate winner of the Rising Black Scientists Awards. Dr. Lett was also featured as our December CHEA Spotlight. On winning this award, she ...

For December’s CHEA Spotlight, we’re featuring one of our CHEA fellows: Dr. Elle Lett! Dr. Lett has been working with the Center since 2019. Elle is a statistician-epidemiologist and she is pursuing her MD at the University of Pennsylvania. She ...

About a year after receiving the TD Charitable Foundation's contribution to CHEA, Food Access Support Technology (FAST) has provided thousands of meals to Philadelphian families in need. A successful partnership using the FAST App and Black & Mobile, a Black-owned ...

A perspectives piece published in the New England Journal of Medicine co-authored by CHEA’s founder and Executive Director, Dr. Jaya Aysola, discusses the minimal progress of representation in medical school faculty. Recent AAMC data shows that only 5.5% of medical school ...

This month’s CHEA spotlight is one of our beloved CHEA fellows, Dr. Matthew Kearney. Matthew holds a Master’s in Public Health from Penn and PhD from Drexel University. Since 2016, he has been working on research projects alongside our executive ...

This month, CHEA is kicking off our CHEA spotlights! Every month, we will be highlighting an individual and their contributions to health equity. To kick off this series, we are featuring CHEA’s first official hire, Ana Bonilla Martinez! Ana is ...

It’s been a busy summer for CHEA! Our team has been hard at work and we have a few updates to share. The Healthier Together Study, a 5 year initiative, developed an app to promote health behaviors related to cancer ...