In partnership with Deloitte, the Center for Leadership and Change Management at Wharton's School of Business is launching an initiative to fund research on under-represented minorities in the workplace. This initiative has a particular focus on women of color (WOC) ...

CHEA is happy to announce that we are among a team awarded a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The Penn Center for Evidence-based Practice is 1 of 9 evidence-based practice centers awarded a grant from ...

On this podcast episode, Jaya Aysola is featured on The Pulse to discuss the changing role of race in medicine. Medicine has widely known race as a biomedical construct but this is not true. In fact, race is a social ...

When the pandemic first hit the US, the injustices faced by minoritized communities became unfortunately clear. The shortcomings of our healthcare system were more prevalent than ever. In response to the social inequities exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, staff and ...

We at the Perelman School of Medicine are deeply saddened by the rise of anti-Asian violence over the past year. Our previous statement is published on our website. We honor and mourn the eight victims who have lost their lives ...

Dr. Jaya Aysola, CHEA’s executive director and Assistant Dean of Inclusion and Diversity, spoke with WHYY’s “The Pulse” about diversity in medicine. She said more diversity in medical schools would bring positive change — but beyond that, the entire healthcare delivery ...

The Center for Health Equity Advancement condemns anti-Asian violence and racism. We would like to share the following statement by the Pennsylvania Governor's Advisory Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs: The Governor’s Advisory Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs condemns ...

Penn's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) featured CHEA Team members Jaya Aysola, Michelle Munyikwa, and Kaliya Greenidge in a recent blogpost. It highlights a recently published article in the New England Journal of Medicine on racial misrepresentation in ...

The Center's Director of Operations, Rosemary Thomas, was featured on a mini-podcast about LGBTQ+ patients with cancer and the health disparities they experience. In addition to CHEA, Rosemary is the Associate Director of the Penn Med Program for LGBTQ Health ...

Medical school curricula often misrepresent race and contribute to perpetuating physician bias. This bias has a proven negative impact on health disparities in minority communities. An article co-authored by three members of CHEA's team, including our executive director, and medical ...

An article published today in JAMA Network Open, co-authored by CHEA's founder and Executive Director, Dr. Jaya Aysola, suggests that health care institutions must reconsider how they evaluate and define professionalism standards to successfully shift the culture of academic medicine ...

The Center for Health Equity Advancement and Center for Healthcare Improvement & Patient Safety are offering a 3-part longitudinal workshop series designed to assist teams with their health equity improvement efforts. Penn Medicine aspires to lead improvements in our health ...