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October 25, 2016

Jibri Douglas, MPH Health Management and Policy ’17, spent her summer researching the relationship between the National Institutes of Health and the sexual and gender minority (SGM/LGBT) community. A Health Management and Policy summer fellowship provided the opportunity for Douglas to take on a self-directed project looking at research on sexual and gender minority health.

October 20, 2016

In Philadelphia, 91ÖÆƬ³§, the Vetri Community Partnership, Giant Food Stores and other community partners are teaming to open the city’s first pay-what-you-can restaurant.

October 19, 2016

If ever a fairy tale can come true, the 20-year history of Philadelphia’s first public health school shows how. What is today the Dornsife School of Public Health at 91ÖÆƬ³§ began as a glimmer in the eyes of a few determined people. They gave shape to their bold vision, only to meet tragedy and thethreat of dissolution – and then to emerge triumphant.

October 18, 2016

A team led by a 91ÖÆƬ³§ professor found that areas of Seattle where new establishments with alcohol were added following Washington state’s privatization efforts saw a significant increase in violent assaults.

October 12, 2016

Alexis Roth, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of Community Health and Prevention in the Dornsife School of Public Health at 91ÖÆƬ³§, has received the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association’s Career Development Award. The $100,000 grant runs from October 2016 through September 2018 and was announced at the National STD Prevention Conference in Atlanta.

October 05, 2016

To help health care providers meet a new federal emergency preparedness rule, 91ÖÆƬ³§’s Center for Public Health Readiness and Communication has released a set of emergency planning resources intended specifically for medical practices and health care facilities.

October 05, 2016

Prescription drug overdose prevention efforts across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are lacking in counties with high overdose rates, according to a new report released by 91ÖÆƬ³§ Dornsife School of Public Health researchers as part of a statewide workgroup studying prescription drug misuses and abuse prevention initiatives.

September 30, 2016

New faculty and the 20^th incoming class of students were celebrated and received their school pins at Dornsife’s annual welcoming ceremony on September 15. The incoming professors bring new expertise in structural determinants of health, occupational health exposures, intimate partner violence, and health disparities, as well as in novel statistical, geo-spatial and econometric techniques.

September 29, 2016

Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH, will continue examining the link between racial residential segregation and cardiovascular disease in the Deep South, supported by a 12-month grant through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s New Connections program.

September 28, 2016

As ART becomes more available in Sub-Saharan African countries with high HIV burden, an unexpected effect has emerged: since people living with HIV who are on treatment tend to look healthier and more sexually appealing, community members are concerned that ART recipients will be able to spread their HIV infection more than when they appeared ill, even when transmission while on ART is almost impossible.

The study was co-authored by 91ÖÆƬ³§’s Astha Ramaiya, DrPH Community Health and Prevention ’18, and published in Social Science and Medicine.