Undergraduate Review · University of Pennsylvania

Est. 2026

Penn Women’s Health Review

An undergraduate publication exploring women’s health through science, policy, culture, and lived experience.

Mission

The Penn Women’s Health Review is an undergraduate-run publication dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary dialogue on women’s health through research, essays, policy analyses, interviews, and narratives.

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Research

Policy

Culture

Lived Experience

Global Health

Opinion

First Issue

Our inaugural issue is now taking shape.

We’re building the first issue of Penn Women’s Health Review and invite undergraduate writers, researchers, interviewers, and editors to help define the publication’s voice.

Research & Medicine

Research essays and literature reviews

Send undergraduate work that asks a clear question, situates evidence carefully, and explains why it matters for women’s health.

For the inaugural issue

Public Health & Policy

Policy analysis and public-interest writing

We’re looking for pieces on access, equity, law, institutions, campus health, prevention, and health systems.

For the inaugural issue

Global Perspectives

Comparative and global health writing

Contribute work that thinks across borders, communities, migration, care systems, and the politics of health worldwide.

For the inaugural issue

Narratives & Humanities

Essays on culture, memory, and lived experience

We welcome reflective, historically aware, and humanities-driven writing that treats health as deeply human.

For the inaugural issue

Opinion & Conversations

Opinion, interviews, and conversations

Pitch opinion essays or interviews with scholars, clinicians, advocates, students, artists, organizers, or community leaders.

For the inaugural issue

Call for contributors

Be part of the first issue: send us work that is thoughtful, carefully argued, and grounded in research or lived experience.

About the review

A forum for scholarship that moves across disciplines.

Penn Women’s Health Review brings undergraduate voices into conversation with medicine, public health, anthropology, sociology, policy, history, and the humanities. The publication treats women’s health as a field shaped not only by clinical evidence, but also by institutions, communities, memory, law, and lived experience.

Interdisciplinary lens

Medicine

Public Health

Anthropology

Sociology

Policy

History

Humanities

Culture

Editorial Board

Student editors shaping a scholarly public conversation.

Our leadership team brings together students working across research, policy, clinical interests, narrative inquiry, design, and public scholarship.

Editor-in-Chief

Leadership Role

Editorial vision, publication standards, and interdisciplinary direction

Managing Editor

Leadership Role

Research review, peer editing, and issue production

Policy Editor

Section Role

Health equity, law, reproductive policy, and institutional accountability

Global Health Editor

Section Role

Comparative systems, migration, maternal health, and global perspectives

Submit for the first issue

Help shape the first issue of Penn Women’s Health Review.

To submit or pitch a piece, email the editorial team with your materials and a short note. We welcome drafts, polished essays, interview ideas, and research-based writing from undergraduate contributors.

Email your submission

What to include

1. Your work or draft

2. A few sentences about the piece

3. Its category, a short blurb, and whether it has been published elsewhere

Please include the category you think best fits your piece: Research & Medicine, Public Health & Policy, Global Perspectives, Narratives & Humanities, Opinion, or Conversations.