2021

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- April 22, 2021
  
  Two Dornsife epidemiologists think that while the pandemic will end, the novel coronavirus may never be eradicated. But there is hope.
- April 20, 2021
  
  The University’s “Climate Year: Global Research Symposium” brought together Drexel faculty and international partners to present and discuss ways of studying, addressing and combatting climate change.
- April 19, 2021
  
  For April's Autism Awareness Month, Drexel News Blog highlighted Kristen Lyall, ScD, and Diana Schendel, PhD, from the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute.
- April 12, 2021
  
  For the second time since the pandemic began, the Dornsife School of Public Health community celebrated National Public Health Week from home.
- April 09, 2021
  
  Psychosocial stress – typically resulting from difficulty coping with challenging environments – may work synergistically to put women at significantly higher risk of developing coronary heart disease, according to a study by researchers at 91��Ƭ��’s Dornsife School of Public Health, recently published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
- March 31, 2021
 
 This month and with more donations needed, Samantha Rivera Joseph, a PhD student in the Dornsife School of Public Health, hopes to buy the historic building in her Mt. Airy neighborhood and convert it into a community meeting space with crowdsourced funds.
- March 29, 2021
 
 Markers of the pandemic’s impact – testing rates, positivity ratio (cases among total tests), case rates by overall population and deaths – are clustered in neighborhoods, with low-income and predominantly minority communities experiencing worse outcomes than wealthier and predominantly white neighborhoods. The findings, part of the first research to look at comprehensive neighborhood-level data from March through September 2020 from three large U.S. cities – Chicago, New York and Philadelphia – were published today in Annals of Internal Medicine by researchers from 91��Ƭ��’s <a href="/dornsife/">Dornsife School of Public Health</a>.
- March 23, 2021
 
 The University now has the capacity, and an external partnership with a medical cannabis dispensary, to conduct evidence-based research on the health effects of medical cannabis.
- March 15, 2021
 
 Researchers from 91��Ƭ��'s College of Medicine and Dornsife School of Public Health posed questions to prior and prospective organ donors about risk tolerance due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- March 15, 2021
 
 Researchers from the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute collected and reviewed published research about how autistic youth and adults use the internet to communicate and provide a framework for understanding contributions, gaps and opportunities in online autistic communities.

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