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January 07, 2015

Joella Adams, MPH '14, was recently awarded a competitive scholarship for young investigators to present her research and attend the leading U.S. research conference on HIV, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). Her work, which started as a Community-Based Masters Project (CBMP) during her second year at Drexel, focuses on improving comprehensive interventions for HIV positive women during and following pregnancy here in Philadelphia.

December 22, 2014

A Drexel student working toward his master’s degree in public health traveled to Georgia for the winter break to help create the groundwork for a new method of teaching new systems to public health practitioners.

December 16, 2014

Shoshana Akins and Caitlin O'Brien, second year MPH students concentrating in Health Management and Policy, recently presented their CBMP work to Patrick Kennedy. The duo is leading the Scattergood Foundation's 2014-2015 Design Challenge, which is looking to crowdsource trauma-informed products for use in homeless shelters.

December 12, 2014

A "cliff effect"—families losing benefits in the transition out of poverty—is the focus of a new policy report released today by Drexel’s Center for Hunger-Free Communities and Children’s HealthWatch based on data collected in Philadelphia from 2005 through 2013.

December 03, 2014

Second Year MPH student Alex Krengel, an SGO leader concentrating in HMP, heads to the Republic of Georgia next week for a winter break internship focused on developing lasting health infrastructures in the historically rich country.

December 03, 2014

Faculty and staff from 91ÖÆƬ³§’s graduate and professional programs in public health, law, health informatics and medicine gathered in October for a full-day workshop at the College of Medicine Simulation Center, organized by SPH students.

November 25, 2014

A new Drexel study published this month in the journal Advances in Preventive Medicine adds new insight into the role of the physical and social environment on the risk of diabetes, zip code by zip code throughout Philadelphia.

November 18, 2014

Researchers from 91ÖÆƬ³§ presented research on a wide range of public health topics emphasizing urban health challenges, geographic methods in public health, community resilience and more, at the 142nd annual meeting and exposition of the American Public Health Association in New Orleans.

November 13, 2014

Lead by a Drexel researcher, the study showed that the estimated number of individuals with autism receiving services almost tripled since the last look into the disorder five years ago.

November 13, 2014

A committee convened by the Institute of Medicine, including Drexel's Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, has released a set of recommendations of 12 social and behavioral measures that should be collected as part of patients’ electronic health records.