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Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): Dorothy E. Roberts, JD. "The 2023 NASEM Report on Using Population Descriptors in Genetics and Genomics Research"
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2024-04-10 12:00:00
2024-04-10 13:00:00
America/New_York
Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): Dorothy E. Roberts, JD. "The 2023 NASEM Report on Using Population Descriptors in Genetics and Genomics Research"
The 2023 NASEM Report on Using Population Descriptors in Genetics and Genomics Research
Dorothy E. Roberts, JD
George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology
Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights
University of Pennsylvania
In 2021, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Academies to conduct a study to review and assess existing methodologies, benefits, and challenges in using race, ethnicity, ancestry, and other population descriptors in genomics research. To accomplish this task, the National Academies empaneled a committee of 17 members with expertise in various genetics fields, anthropology, sociology, social epidemiology, demography, and population statistics, as well as historical, ethical, legal, and social implications research, including Penn professor Dorothy Roberts. Professor Roberts will discuss the committee’s consensus report, issued in March 2023, which examines the current use of population descriptors in genomics research, presents a set of guiding principles and overarching approaches, and recommends best practices.
Lunch provided.
Streaming available via Zoom.
Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)
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Leila Agha, PhD│Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar
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2024-04-11 12:00:00
2024-04-11 13:00:00
America/New_York
Leila Agha, PhD│Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar
Leila Agha, PhD, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
April 11, 2024 | 12:00 pm ‐ 1:00 pm | Hybrid
Attendees may attend in person at 1104 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA, or virtually. Zoom link here.
“Productivity After Childbirth: Evidence from Physicians”
Parenthood has been shown to be a central factor in the gender gap in earnings; but the impacts on productivity, particularly among top occupations remains unclear. This project focuses on physicians, a rare occupation in which productivity can be observed, and studies how parenthood affects billed care, reported work hours, and patient outcomes.
Leila Agha, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Her research investigates microeconomic questions about how productivity is shaped by innovation, technology, and the organization of work, in the context of the US health care system. Agha’s work has investigated the determinants of innovation in healthcare markets, a key engine of both rising costs and improvements in health outcomes. In other research, she analyzed how the organization of provider teams affects health care efficiency. Her ongoing research studies how physicians adopt and realize value from new technology, in contexts with limited information about patient-specific risks and benefits.
Agha’s work has been published widely in leading economics, science, and medical journals. She completed her S.B. and Ph.D. in economics at MIT. Prof. Agha is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and she currently serves as an associate editor of Management Science.
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MBE/MSME Alumni Speaker Series: Dr. Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz. "Selecting our Children’s Genes: The Emergence of Polygenic Embryo Screening"
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2024-04-11 17:15:00
2024-04-11 19:30:00
America/New_York
MBE/MSME Alumni Speaker Series: Dr. Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz. "Selecting our Children’s Genes: The Emergence of Polygenic Embryo Screening"
Speaker: Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz, JD, PhD, MBE '13
Talk: "Selecting our Children’s Genes: The Emergence ofPolygenic Embryo Screening"
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Daniel Zeltzer, PhD│Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar
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2024-04-18 12:00:00
2024-04-18 13:00:00
America/New_York
Daniel Zeltzer, PhD│Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar
Daniel Zeltzer, PhD, Koret Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and SIEPR, Stanford University (2023-2024), and Senior Lecturer with tenure at The Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University
April 18, 2024 | 12:00 pm ‐ 1:00 pm | Hybrid
Attendees may attend in person at 1104 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA, or virtually. Zoom link here.
“Telemedicine and AI in Primary Care”
This seminar will present three papers examining the impacts of digital technologies on primary care delivery. The first two papers explore the adoption of telemedicine and its augmentation with digital devices for remote diagnostics. Findings suggest that the convenience of telemedicine access and its enhancement with digital devices increase primary care utilization and, in some cases, shift care towards less intensive settings, resulting in no increase in costs. The third paper evaluates the diagnostic accuracy of AI in virtual primary care, demonstrating high agreement between AI-generated diagnoses and providers across various diagnoses and patient demographics. These studies suggest a potential of telemedicine and AI to enhance healthcare provision without additional costs.
Daniel Zeltzer, PhD, is currently a Koret Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and SIEPR, Stanford University (2023-2024), and a Senior Lecturer with tenure at The Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University. He is an affiliate of the CESifo and IZA research networks. Zeltzer’s research explores the intersections of Health Economics, Networks, and Machine Learning. His scholarly contributions include telemedicine, digital health technologies, end-of-life spending, and physician networks as moderators of technology diffusion and gender homophily in patient referrals. His work has been supported by the Israel Science Foundation and published in prominent academic journals such as the American Economic Journal, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Journal of Health Economics, and JAMA Surgery. Zeltzer received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from Tel Aviv University and completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Princeton University.
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Hybrid: 1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Cassie Houtz, PhD.
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2024-04-23 12:00:00
2024-04-23 13:00:00
America/New_York
Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Cassie Houtz, PhD.
Cassie Houtz, PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow in the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Human Genetics & Genomics University of Pennsylvania
Cassie Houtz (she/her/hers) received her PhD in the study of religion from Harvard University, where she studied the intersections of philosophical, religious, and biomedical conceptions of what it means to live a "good life.” Her interests in disability bioethics, philosophy of medicine, and the “quality of life” have led her to the ELSI Postdoctoral Fellowship at Penn. As a postdoctoral fellow, she is working on two primary research areas: (1) the ethics of treating polygenic and monogenic “obesity” and (2) ethical dilemmas related to newborn genetic screening.
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Lunch provided.
Streaming available via Zoom.
Hybrid: 1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Medical Ethics
Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk
Gopi Shah Goda, PhD│CHIBE X HP X LDI Research Seminar
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2024-04-25 12:00:00
2024-04-25 13:00:00
America/New_York
Gopi Shah Goda, PhD│CHIBE X HP X LDI Research Seminar
Insurance Against Health Shocks in the Tax Code: Eligibility and Take-Up
Gopi Shah Goda, PhD, Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University
12:00p.m. – 1:00p.m. ET | April 25, 2024 | In-Person Event
Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk
Register for this event here: https://share.hsforms.com/1iLA4_mwIQ1S6fHw6he8MpA5gwp1.
U.S. taxpayers deducted $77 billion in itemized medical deductions in tax year 2020, about two-thirds of which was deducted on tax returns where the primary taxpayer was 65 or over. The deductibility of medical expenses represents an important form of social insurance for out-of-pocket medical expenses delivered through the tax code, where eligibility and available benefits are determined by income, out-of-pocket spending on healthcare, and other financial characteristics. Tracking this spending and determining what can be deducted can be complex and may result in not all eligible spending being deducted. This project seeks to quantify the share of eligible expenses that are deducted, the mechanisms behind incomplete take-up, and the implications for optimal policy design.
Gopi Shah Goda, PhD, is a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and Professor of Economics (by courtesy) at Stanford University, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries. From July 2021 to July 2022, Gopi served as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. She also served as SIEPR’s Deputy Director from September 2016 to July 2021.
Co-sponsored with the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.
For more information about this or other upcoming events, please go to https://chibe.upenn.edu/events/.
Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk
Penn Medical Ethics
Hybrid: 1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Desmond Upton Patton, PhD, MSW
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2024-04-30 12:00:00
2024-04-30 13:00:00
America/New_York
Penn Bioethics Seminar Series (PBS): Desmond Upton Patton, PhD, MSW
Desmond Upton Patton, PhD, MSW
Desmond Upton Patton, a pioneer in the interdisciplinary fusion of social work, communications, and data science, is the Brian and Randi Schwartz University Professor, with joint appointments in the School of Social Policy & Practice and the Annenberg School for Communication along with a secondary appointment in the department of psychiatry in the Perelman School of Medicine.
Professor Patton’s groundbreaking research into the relationship between social media and gang violence – specifically how communities constructed online can influence often harmful behavior offline – has led to his becoming the most cited and recognized scholar in this increasingly important area of social science. His early work attempting to detect trauma and preempt violence on social media led to his current roles as an expert on language analysis and bias in AI and a member of Twitter’s Academic Research advisory board and Spotify’s Safety Advisory Council. As a social worker, Patton realized existing gold standard data science techniques could not accurately understand key cultural nuances in language amongst predominantly black and Hispanic youth. In response, he created the Contextual Analysis of Social Media (CASM) approach to center and privilege culture, context and inclusion in machine learning and computer vision analysis. CASM can be applied by businesses and other organizations to observe social media and workplace communication channels for potentially incendiary language, which taken out of context can lead to violence. With this methodology, organizations can better foster diverse and inclusive environments and minimize employee conflict. Further, Patton’s insights on creating non-biased and culturally nuanced algorithms give tech companies a holistic perspective on various business and social issues. The companies that adopt these proactive measures are then able to ensure they are not unintentionally propagating bias.
Lunch provided.
Streaming available via Zoom.
Hybrid: 1402 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Medical Ethics
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Jessie Handbury, PhD│Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar
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2024-05-02 12:00:00
2024-05-02 13:00:00
America/New_York
Jessie Handbury, PhD│Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar
Jessie Handbury, PhD, Gilbert and Shelley Harrison Associate Professor of Real Estate, The Wharton School
Thursday, May 2, 2024 | 12:00-1:00 PM EST | Hybrid Event
1104 Blockley Hall
(Note: Virtual attendees can join by accessing this link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95353951407.)
“Welfare Implications of Increased Retailer Participation in SNAP”
Governments generally rely on private vendors to distribute in-kind benefits. The types of vendors that participate can affect beneficiaries, local markets, and program costs. We study the effects of a dramatic increase in the number of food stores accepting SNAP benefits during the Great Recession. To do so, we combine several datasets: administrative records on all SNAP stores, information on all food stores in the U.S., a large household purchasing panel, and a panel of retailer transaction records. We find that the new SNAP stores are largely non-grocer stores that carry limited fresh inventory. The increase in store participation resulted in modest declines in distance to SNAP stores among SNAP-eligible households (a proxy for the cost of access). SNAP-eligible households shift a small share of their food expenditures to the new SNAP retailers, while there is no change for non-SNAP households. Despite small effects for SNAP households, participating in SNAP results in important increases in food sales for vendors. They shift their perishable inventory toward staple foods. Our evidence suggests that proposed restrictions on non-grocer participation in SNAP are unlikely to improve nutrition among beneficiaries.
Jessie Handbury, PhD, is the Gilbert and Shelley Harrison Associate Professor of Real Estate at The Wharton School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Handbury’s research studies the interplay between spatial and socio-economic inequality, with a focus on the spatial distribution of retail amenities. Her papers have been published in such journals as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Econometrica, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Urban Economics and has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and the Washington Post. Some of Handbury’s recent research studies the role of e-commerce and dollar stores in mediating the welfare impact of the decline in brick-and-mortar retail; measures preferences for social interactions using smartphone data; and considers the long-run impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on residential sorting in cities. She holds a B.A. in economics and mathematics and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics, all from Columbia University.
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Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)
Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): Daphne Oluwaseun Martschenko, PhD. "The Acid We Inherit: Social and Behavioral Genomics in the Context of an Ugly History and Uncertain Future"
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2024-05-08 12:00:00
2024-05-08 13:00:00
America/New_York
Research Ethics and Policy Series (REPS): Daphne Oluwaseun Martschenko, PhD. "The Acid We Inherit: Social and Behavioral Genomics in the Context of an Ugly History and Uncertain Future"
The Acid We Inherit: Social and Behavioral Genomics in the Context of an Ugly History and Uncertain Future
Daphne Oluwaseun Martschenko, PhD
Assistant Professor
Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics
Social and behavioral genomics (SBG) uses molecular, genome-wide data, to examine whether and how genetic differences between individuals shape differences in characteristics and outcomes such as same-sex sexual behavior and educational attainment. The field is the ongoing subject of polarizing debate and controversy. While claims regarding genetic differences in behavior have long been used to justify social inequalities, misguided and harmful genetic myths continue today – wielded by White supremacists, academic researchers, and high-profile public figures who cite recent genomic studies as evidence to support their beliefs. Meanwhile, social and behavioral genomic data are increasingly available to consumers via direct-to-consumer genetic testing and polygenic embryo selection. This talk argues that the ethical and socially responsible conduct and translation of social and behavioral genomics calls for a full accounting of ‘the acid we inherit’: a dual inheritance process through which DNA and harmful myths about DNA get passed down from one generation to the next.
Lunch provided.
Streaming available via Zoom.
Hybrid: RCH B102AB, Richards Bldg., 3700 Hamilton Walk (and virtual via Zoom)
Penn Medical Ethics
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Elaine L. Hill, PhD│Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar
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2024-05-09 12:00:00
2024-05-09 13:00:00
America/New_York
Elaine L. Hill, PhD│Health Policy and CHIBE Research Seminar
Elaine L. Hill, PhD , Associate Professor of Health Economics, Economics, and Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Rochester
May 09, 2024 | 12:00 pm ‐ 1:00 pm | Hybrid
Attendees may attend in person at 1104 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA, or virtually. Zoom link here.
Elaine L. Hill, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Health Economics in the Departments of Public Health Sciences, of Economics, and of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Rochester. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and hold a courtesy appointment at Oregon State University. Her research is at the intersection of health, health policy, and the environment and human capital formation.
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