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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.

March 27, 2017

When Professor , gives his lecture, “Cities for Life: Transforming Urban Institutions for Health Equity,” he brings to his presentation not just talk – but direct experience in applying ideas and principles for change in the real world, to help real people. His recent provided a glimpse of what it takes to improve the health status of the poor, from Richmond, CA to Medillin, Colombia.

March 23, 2017

The Dornsife School of Public Health welcomes four new members to the Dean’s Advisory Council. The DAC provides support to school leadership on enhancing and developing the school’s research, teaching and community partnerships.

March 16, 2017

Leslie Ain McClure, PhD, MS, professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at 91ÖÆƬ³§’s Dornsife School of Public Health, has been named to a newly created position as the Associate Director of Diversity for the (SAMSI). SAMSI is part of the program of the . By adding McClure in this role, the organization aims to help increase the diversity of students and faculty who are exposed to math and statistics.