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September 28, 2016

Leslie McClure, PhD, MS, professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at 91ÖÆƬ³§’s Dornsife School of Public Health, led a study looking at the impact of increasing the sample size in an adaptive design clinical trial.

September 26, 2016

Post-doctoral fellow Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH, has focused much of her research with the Urban Health Collaborative on the connections between race, place and health in the U.S. South. This summer, she took on a new challenge: applying her social epidemiological approach to study the health implications of residential segregation by class and race in Brazil. Early results from her work are striking, as race, place and health have rarely been discussed and studied there.

September 21, 2016

A group of autism researchers led by Drexel’s Craig Newschaffer will use new technology to study the baby teeth of children who have siblings with autism — considered high-risk already — to determine if they’re more likely to develop the disorder if exposed to chemicals in the womb.

September 14, 2016

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFG) to the and the Firefighter Injury Research and Safety Trends (FIRST) program in the Dornsife School of Public Health at 91ÖÆƬ³§.

September 01, 2016

A recent study by researchers from 91ÖÆƬ³§â€™s Center for Hunger-Free Communities found that a high number of participants in a federal cash assistance program have suffered significant childhood adversity, exposure to violence as adults and other poverty-related stressors, highlighting the need to take participants’ past trauma into account.

August 31, 2016

91ÖÆƬ³§â€™s Shezda Afrin, BS PH ’19, is spending her summer in Bangladesh working with a non-profit assisting orphans in Dhaka.

Afrin, who considers Dhaka her second home, has been working at an orphanage and local health clinic led by (DCI), a non-profit organization helping poor children to access their rights to health, education, economic security and protection. She is teaching English to both staff and the girls at the orphanage. She's also working with staff to develop computer skills, helping them learn to create spreadsheets and documents to help run the orphanage.

August 30, 2016

Interviews conducted across the country by 91ÖÆƬ³§ researchers found that firefighters are often influenced by both colleagues and the public’s perception of them as risk-takers when choosing whether or not to use their safety equipment.

August 23, 2016

The Association of Teachers of Maternal & Child Health (ATMCH) recently named Kiana Hardy, MPH, as Student Representative to the organization. In her role as Student Representative, Kiana will speak on behalf of students as a part of the Executive Committee and work to bridge the gap between current MCH leaders and students to foster professional relationships earlier and an exchange of interests and ideas.

August 23, 2016

A group of man-made chemicals used in some pesticides and insulating materials banned in the 1970s continues to linger in the United States, and new research by a 91ÖÆƬ³§ professor and colleagues found that high levels of exposure to some of them during pregnancy may increase the likelihood of a child being diagnosed with autism by roughly 80 percent.

August 05, 2016

This chief development officer recently published a book about an obscure yet epic piece of history about WWI and the Russian Revolution — with an assist from some Drexel Dragons.