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  • May 23, 2016

    Alex Ortega, PhD, joined the Dornsife School of Public Health last fall as professor and chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy. His work includes implementation and evaluation of built environment interventions as well as assessment of policy decisions related to undocumented immigrants and the Affordable Care Act, among other areas.

  • May 23, 2016

    A participant and expert of Drexel鈥檚 Witnesses to Hunger advocacy program is the focus of a new documentary that is part of a series looking at social issues in the United States.

  • May 19, 2016

    In analyzing the articles The New York Times has published about posttraumatic stress disorder over the last 35 years, Drexel鈥檚 Jonathan Purtle and his team found some troubling trends in the influential paper鈥檚 coverage.

  • May 19, 2016

    James W. Buehler, MD, professor of Health Management and Policy at 91制片厂 Dornsife School of Public Health and former Philadelphia health commissioner, has been interviewed for the 2016 edition of Leading Healthy Change In Our Communities. The book is written by student reporters, ages 8 to 14, who serve on their school health newspaper staffs as part of the Healthy NewsWorks student media program.

  • May 19, 2016

    On April 28, a kickoff event for the newly created Public Health Young Leaders Association (PHYLA) was held on Drexel鈥檚 University City campus in Nesbitt Hall. Nearly 80 public health practitioners attended from across the region. At this event, a panel of 5 young leaders spoke of their experiences in the field, including two Dornsife MPH alumni, Angus Shieh, MPH 鈥11 and Shoshana Akins, MPH 鈥15.

  • May 18, 2016

    Matt Young, DO, MPH 鈥99: 鈥淚 see public health disasters everyday.鈥

  • College of Physician Poster Winners 2016

    May 16, 2016

    Four students from the Dornsife School of Public Health received awards in health policy and research at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia 2016 Student Public Health Poster Session.

  • May 16, 2016

    While many government, community and private interventions look at local corner and convenience stores as prime areas to stoke healthy eating, a Drexel study found that even two years after such an intervention took place, attitudes and purchasing habits didn鈥檛 change.

  • May 13, 2016

    The University of Iowa College of Public Health awarded one of it鈥檚 2016 Outstanding Alumni Awards to Leslie McClure, PhD, MS, who earned a master of science in preventive medicine and environmental health, and is now professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the 91制片厂 Dornsife School of Public Health.

  • May 12, 2016

    New research from 91制片厂’s has added evidence on the relationship between food insecurity and adverse child experiences (ACEs).

  • May 12, 2016

    Evelyn Arana, a fourth-year doctoral candidate in Community Health and Prevention, will present on "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mammography Utilization Among Women with Intellectual Disabilities in Philadelphia" in Melbourne, Australia this August.

  • May 11, 2016

    Many students of public health are familiar with , the classic and widely taught allegorical framework describing the levels of racism. Published in 2000, its author, , has continued to build on the analogy she created 16 years ago – and also has created new allegories to enable people to talk about racism (not “race, but racism” she emphasizes). It is a scourge that, she says, threatens not only the well-being and self-esteem of its victims, but also undermines productivity and future of the nation.

    Jones took the podium in the Stein Auditorium at Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health on May 9 to deliver the 2016 Mann Health and Human Rights Memorial Lecture. The lecture is named for founding dean Jonathan Mann, who established the school’s commitment to health as a human right – a value that was interwoven through Jones’s presentation.

  • May 03, 2016

    In the second edition of the annual A.J. Drexel Autism Institute鈥檚 annual National Autism Indicators Report series, researchers looked at Vocational Rehabilitation, a federally-funded employment program, administered by each state, for people with disabilities. They found that adults with autism are increasingly applying for services, but most are getting jobs that pay well below the poverty line.

  • May 03, 2016

    At the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative Distinguished Speaker Series on April 19, Anthony Iton, MD, JD, MPH, took attendees through his analysis of the reasons and remedies for health inequity, and introduced the audience to his work on the California Endowment's Building Healthy Communities initiative: a $1 billion, 10-year project that aims to improve health status in 14 California counties, by dedicating its resources exclusively to addressing social determinants rather than paying for health care.