Our mission is to make cancer care better for patients, clinicians, and communities. We work at the nexus of research and practice to create, test, and scale solutions to improve health, health care, and health equity for patients with cancer; enhance the patient and clinician experience; and increase care efficiency and value.
Our Initiatives
We are change agents dedicated to designing, testing, scaling and disseminating innovations in cancer care.
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We are worldwide experts in employing financial and non-financial interventions to nudge patient and clinician behavior in cancer care, informed by lessons from health economics and behavioral economics.
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We aim to drive high-value cancer care by designing, testing, scaling and evaluating payment models that enhance affordability, access and innovation.
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We employ a health equity lens across our work, examining and addressing socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic disparities and other systemic barriers to accessing healthcare.
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We integrate augmented and artificial intelligence into our solutions to predict health outcomes, support decision making, challenge bias, and enhance health equity.
Augmented & Artificial Intelligence
01.18.2023
For a novel investigation into a common and deadly form of liver cancer, PC3I Innovation Fellow Timothy Brown, MD, recently received an ASCO Conquer Cancer Merit Award.
12.22.2022
For her work leading innovative research into racial disparities in breast cancer care, Sara Ginzberg, MD, recently received a Clinical Scholar Award from the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
12.09.2022
Four Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation (PC3I) Faculty will be presenting the latest advances in blood cancer research and treatment at the 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition.
01.12.2023
A team led by PC3I Innovation Faculty Ravi Parikh has found that machine learning-triggered behavioral nudges quadrupled the rates of seriousness illness conversations for patients with advance cancer.
12.22.2022
In partnership with the School of Social Policy and Practice, the Coalition for Food and Health Equity secured funding from the American Cancer Society for a community refrigerator at the Abramson Cancer Center.
11.10.2022
A study finds no differences in overall survival or complete remission rates among children and young adults with different levels of poverty exposure and neighborhood opportunity.