Penn Nursing’s Sara Jacoby, an assistant professor in the department of family and community health and a senior fellow in both the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics and the Center for Public Health Initiatives, has been honored with a Rising Star Award from the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS). This award recognizes a Junior Investigator that has shown promise in establishing a program of health and/or nursing research.

Dr. Jacoby combines nursing and public health perspectives in her approach to injury science and urban health research. Dr. Jacoby has been successfully developing a line of research that seeks to identify the etiologies of disparities in long-term outcomes after traumatic injury and to examine the ways that the social and built environments in urban settings shape how people recover from physical and psychological trauma. She has demonstrated an escalating record of funding, including two current grants from the Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation and the University Research Foundation,that focus on the development and testing of a theoretically-based remote monitoring intervention to track and enhance long-term recovery after serious injury in vulnerable populations.