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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.

January 27, 2017

Dornsife SPH faculty and students will play an instrumental role in implementing a large new grant aimed at improving the education and developmental outcomes of children and youth living and attending school in the West Philadelphia Promise Zone.

January 25, 2017

Is the national focus on mass shootings minimizing the effects of exposure to gun violence in urban communities of color, where it’s most pervasive? A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health focused on the results of a survey on neighborhood-level exposures to violence.

January 24, 2017

Violence increases in areas where there are high densities of stores where alcoholic beverages can be purchased and carried out, according to a new study by 91ÖÆƬ³§ researchers partnered with the City of Philadelphia.