Center For Public Health
What We Do
| We educate and train public health leaders and practitioners, foster multi-disciplinary collaboration, and promote excellence in public health research and community partnerships. |
Our Mission
The University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Public Health mission is to educate and train public health leaders and practitioners, foster multi-disciplinary collaboration, and promote excellence in public health research and community partnerships.
Our Current Work
COVID-19 Community Vax clinics
In partnership with Penn’s Department of Family Medicine of Community Health, we launched our Community Covid-19 Vaccine Clinic program in May 2021. To date we have held over 100 vaccine clinics in schools, churches, and community centers in West Philadelphia and provided more than 10,000 vaccines.
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On October 10th 2022, the Penn Center for Public Health hosted Kathyrn Kolbert for an in-person seminar. Kathryn Kolbert’s talk was titled “Protecting Reproductive Rights & Health in a Post-Roe Era”.
View the recap herePublic Health Pipeline Plus
The Public Health Pipeline Plus program is a longitudinal summer internship for high school students, facilitated by the Center for Public Health and the Netter Center for Community Partnerships. This program allows Philadelphia high school students interested in health related careers to expand their knowledge in Public Health through classroom learning and fieldwork activities.
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Seminar series 2022-2023
On September 14th, we kicked off the 2022-2023 Penn Center for Public Health Seminar Series with the introduction of the new Executive Director, Richard Wender, MD.
In his inaugural lecture, “The Future of Public Health,” Dr. Wender issued a call to action–urging members of the Penn Public Health community to recognize and remediate health inequities.
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