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April 26, 2017

With the opioid epidemic devastating communities across the country, Dornsife students elected to hear from an innovative expert on opioid overdose reduction for National Public Health Week’s marquee event. The event capped a week of student-led public health awareness activities around Drexel’s University City campus.

April 26, 2017

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, made one of his first collegiate campus visits to 91ÖÆƬ³§ earlier this month, to hear from leaders about several key issues in public health - the opioid epidemic and emotional stress and well-being.

April 21, 2017

At a lecture hosted by the Urban Health Collaborative, Larry Cohen, MSW, founder and Executive Director of described a lifetime of work to promote prevention and translate it into real action.

April 19, 2017

A new three-year grant from the Scattergood Foundation will transform an annual Design and Health course into the centerpiece of a yearlong health and design research process, in which students and faculty will work to create, prototype and present solutions that can be brought forward and developed in the real world.

April 14, 2017

, the community advocacy organization within the , is featured in , a new 4-part documentary about the power of citizen science.

April 12, 2017

Alison A Evans, ScD, associate professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics served on a National Academy of Medicine consensus committee to develop a strategy for the elimination of viral hepatitis B and C in the United States by 2030. The group recently released its second report which details specific actions to achieve elimination of the disease through information, interventions, service delivery, financing, and research.

April 12, 2017

Drexel’s Healing Hurt People received an award from the National Office for Victims of Crime on April 7 for its work toward making victims of violent crime less likely to be injured again.

April 12, 2017

91ÖÆƬ³§ Dornsife School of Public Health alumna Wen-kuni Ceant, MPH Health Management and Policy ’16, has been offered a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant in Public Health to Senegal. The award comes from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Ceant will be evaluating the implementation of a new healthcare prepayment system with experts at L’Institut Mère-Enfant in Kaolack (IMEK), Senegal, with an eye towards refining and developing a model to facilitate greater access and better care for patients.

April 12, 2017

Eight students and alumni from Drexel were offered grants from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program this year.

April 10, 2017

In a behind-the-scenes look at how policymakers formed Philadelphia’s sugar-sweetened beverage tax, researchers from 91ÖÆƬ³§ found that an emphasis on revenue generation for pre-kindergarten education, not health benefits, served as a winning strategy.