Sojourner Ahebee | WHYY
Sojourner Ahébée covers health equity for WHYY’s weekly health and science show, The Pulse, and the WHYY newsroom. Her reporting focuses on access to health care, outcomes, and societal factors that impact health in communities of color. Sojourner’s work is supported by a grant from the Commonwealth Fund. Her writing has been published in The Atlantic, The Academy of American Poets (Poem A Day), Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Sojourner is a recipient of a 2019 MacDowell Fellowship and a graduate of Stanford University.
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With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, most primary care appointments shifted to telemedicine. New research from the University of Pennsylvania suggests telehealth may have increased access to care for Black patients in that health system. -
Suicide is a leading cause of death in the United States, but for years the study of suicide risk in diverse populations has been severely limited. Now that’s changing. Recently, Penn Medicine researchers were awarded a $14 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to launch a first-of-its-kind suicide prevention center. -
Limb amputations have long been higher for patients in rural America than in cities, largely because people there lack access to specialty care. But a new study from the University of Pennsylvania suggests that within U.S. cities the highest amputation rates are associated with poverty and living in a majority-Black neighborhood.
