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February 24, 2017

The announcement of the verdict for the Trayvon Martin case in the summer of 2013 case shocked Marie Plaisime, MPH ’14. She then set out to develop a second year master’s project that would not only embody her passion to ameliorate racial disparities, but also make a difference in health care.

This month, the results of that master’s project were published by the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities.

February 23, 2017

A team of 91ÖÆƬ³§ researchers looking into how a higher density of day care facilities may affect the prevalence of illness in a neighborhood and found that it doesn’t really have much of an effect.

February 20, 2017

Black men likely don't get the same healthcare treatment that white men do because of doctors' biases and fear of black men, according to a new qualitative study.

February 09, 2017

91ÖÆƬ³§’s Center for Public Health Readiness and Communication (CPHRC) received a $1.15 Million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study the disaster communication needs of children and youth with special health care needs and individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

February 09, 2017

Though Drexel has participated in the annual community book club for years, this marks the first year of interdisciplinary collaboration and panel discussions.

February 09, 2017

About 100 members of the Drexel community gathered last evening for a wide-ranging informational forum with a panel of professors to learn more about President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel from seven countries.

February 08, 2017

A study led by faculty from 91ÖÆƬ³§â€™s Dornsife School of Public Health found that the parents of Latino children who only speak Spanish or who are non-citizens feel half as likely to be heard as those who only speak English when communicating with their children’s doctors.

February 08, 2017

An effort to map the major risk factors for stroke in the United States — high blood pressure, diabetes and smoking — shows that most of those risk factors center among populations in the Southeast.

January 30, 2017

Jacqueline Orr, DrPH student in Health Policy and Social Justice in the Department of Health Management and Policy, received Drexel’s Outstanding Student Award for her work on Drexel’s Black Alumni Council and the Drexel Black Graduate Student Union (DBGSU).

January 30, 2017

The largest public housing authority to implement comprehensive smoke-free policies, the Philadelphia Housing Authority, is seeing significant positive results related to secondhand smoke exposures.