Impact Health Outcomes Locally and Globally

Penn Medicine is dedicated to impacting health outcomes both on a local and global scale. The concept includes three initiatives.

Create focused effort on health care in Philadelphia communities

We will encourage community-based engagement and research for establishing a more effective model of care, focusing on improved health outcomes for our Philadelphia communities.

• Revitalize the Center for Public Health Initiatives (CPHI). Support the newly reorganized university CPHI as the organizing structure to coordinate community-based research. New pilot programs will be developed to encourage community-based research. We will also explore integrating community-based physician leaders as adjunct faculty members into the Penn community.
• Identify a Penn Medicine leader for community health initiatives. We will identify a leader to coordinate community health initiatives across the school using the search for the new Chair in Family and Community Medicine to support this objective.
• Develop a community health advisory board. We will convene an advisory board of community members concerned about health care delivery, to assure that our efforts are tied to the desires and needs of the community.

Engage in selective but impactful global partnerships

• Align opportunities with university initiatives. We will seek to expand the experiences we offer faculty members and trainees at international sites and increase funding for collaborative research with international colleagues.
• Identify a leader for global health initiatives. We will develop an organizational structure and identify a leader to coordinate global health initiatives across the school.
• Expand, through focused recruitment, faculty interested in global engagement. Penn Medicine needs to be engaged globally through its faculty, whether it is wet bench research, public health research or service, or improving clinical care.