Wellness at Penn

The University is strongly committed to providing exceptional health and wellness services to your student throughout their time at Penn. Wellness at Penn’s mission is to infuse wellness across its eight domains throughout the Penn experience through inclusive, innovative, and impactful initiatives, with a vision of a campus that integrates the science, theory, and practice of wellness. Wellness at Penn is comprised of two pillars: Student Health and Counseling and Public Health and Wellbeing. We invite you to follow us on Facebook or Instagram @wellnessatpenn to learn more.

Student Health and Counseling

Student Health and Counseling provides support and care for Penn students on their academic journey. Whether through physical, emotional, or social concerns, students may need support to face these challenges. Recognizing the need for help is a sign of strength and is often the first step in effectively managing difficulties.

Medical care is provided in our stateof-the-art primary care center (located at 3535 Market Street, Suite 100) by our team of dedicated clinicians who are committed to the health and wellbeing of Penn students. Our team provides compassionate, accessible, cost-effective, culturally sensitive, and student-focused treatment, including care for sick visits, injuries, chronic medical conditions, preventive health services, health and wellness education, stress management, and immunizations. We offer convenient telehealth and virtual visits to better align with student choices and preferences. Our center is a gender-affirming and transinclusive office with providers experienced in caring for transgender clients. Privacy and confidentiality are of utmost concern.

Counseling is available for all undergraduate, graduate, and professional students who need support in fulfilling their academic, social, and personal objectives. Students can schedule an in-person or virtual appointment with a counselor at our center (located at 3624 Market Street, First Floor West), they can drop in to one of our Let’s Talk sessions across campus, or drop in to our office during regular business hours without an appointment if they require urgent counseling support. Our counseling team provides confidential, individual psychotherapy, which is primarily brief in nature and problem-focused. Other counseling options include assessment and referral services and medication evaluations and maintenance. Our team also offers group counseling, including several supportive interventions for special populations and themes such as eating concerns, mindfulness, and anxiety management.

Student Health and Counseling

Medical care

Ȱ 3535 Market St, Suite 100 Philadelphia, PA 19104

Л (215) 746-3535 (24-hour phone support)

Couseling

Ȱ 3624 Market St, First Floor Philadelphia, PA 19104

Л (215) 898-7021 (24-hour phone support) î wellness.upenn.edu/student-health-andcounseling

Public Health and Wellbeing

Public Health and Wellbeing is dedicated to creating a community of care, providing the entire Penn community with disease surveillance and prevention, health education and promotion, and policies that make the healthy choice the easy choice. Public Health and Wellbeing continues to offer our innovative and evidence-based programming to students, whether they’re on campus or participating online. The Public Health and Wellbeing team is also an integral component of Penn’s communicable disease outbreak response, handling contact tracing, disease surveillance, and health education.

Our team of health educators offers workshops and seminars to equip students with the knowledge and skills they need to be successful and thrive during their time on campus. Whether they host a workshop on imposter syndrome or roll out an online course on sleep hygiene, their goal is to promote resilience and wellbeing across its eight domains. We are pleased to offer the Dowd/Sanders Wellness and Resilience Program to all residents of our college house system.

Mental health outreach and education also occur through targeted programming, self-development through workshops, online resources, a stress management program, and classroom lectures. Our offerings seek to foster the intellectual, social, and emotional growth of all students by promoting self-awareness, wellness principles, lifelong learning, and personal responsibility.

Also within the Public Health and Wellbeing department is the SUPER (Substance Use, Prevention, Education, and Recovery) Program, which is dedicated to reducing harm related to substance use at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Penn Park Farm, a multidisciplinary initiative that engages stakeholders from across the Penn community around the central pillars of wellness, food access, sustainability, and education.

Public Health and Wellbeing also helps students navigate the University’s immunization and insurance requirements. You can find the requirements and necessary steps to become compliant on our website under “Immunization and Insurance Compliance.”

Public Health and Wellbeing

Ȱ 3535 Market St, Mezzanine Philadelphia, PA 19104

Л (215)-898-0300 î wellness.upenn.edu/public-health-andwellbeing