Atheendar Venkataramani (PSC/PARC Research Associate) was featured in Penn Today and an LDI Research Update for new work, published in Demography, that examines health and mortality in communities where manufacturing jobs were replaced by robots and automation.
PSC/PARC Researchers Atheendar Venkataramani, Courtney Boen, and John MacDonald are investigators in a new NIH funded project, which includes an unprecedented $10 million over the course of 5 years, to study the impact of environmental and economic interventions on reducing health disparities in Black Philadelphia neighborhoods. At the community level, the study includes tree planting, vacant lot greening, trash cleanup, and rehabilitation of dilapidated, abandoned houses. For households, the study will help connect participants to local, state, and federal social and economic benefits, including food, unemployment, and prescription drug assistance, provide financial counseling and tax preparation services, and offer emergency cash assistance.
Read more about this project in Penn Medicine News.
PSC and PARC Research Associates, Courtney Boen and Atheendar Venkataramani, were recently awarded funding through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Policies for Action: Public Policy Research to Advance Racial Equity and Racial Justice program. The project, entitled “Impact of State Incarceration Policies on Racial Health Equity,” will investigate the links between state incarceration policy and racial health disparities across the life course.
Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Assistant Professor of Medicine
M.D., Medicine, University of Washington, 2011
Ph.D., Health Policy (Economics), Yale University, 2009
My research focuses on the life-course origins of health and socioeconomic inequality. I am currently working on:
I am currently working on projects in the United States, Mexico, South Africa, Uganda.
