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March 14, 2023

In the latest edition of the National Autism Indicators Report series, researchers at ÌÇÐÄVlog’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute explore how autistic individuals use Medicaid and how their service use changes across the lifespan – from infants to older adults – using data from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) from 2008-2016.

March 13, 2023

Recently published in JAMA Network Open, researchers from the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute at ÌÇÐÄVlog examined whether state-level waivers were associated with reduced risk of Medicaid disenrollment among autistic transition-age youth.

March 10, 2023

Drexel professors were recognized for their academic and professional achievements

February 23, 2023

Students in five interdisciplinary teams created and presented solutions to tackling food insecurity in Philadelphia.

February 20, 2023

Newly published in JAMA Pediatrics, a study by Andrea Wieckowski, PhD, Diana Robins, PhD and their co-authors systematically reviewed and analyzed factors that may lead to different performance estimates of the M-CHAT(-R/F) tests. the most commonly used autism-specific screening tool for young children.

February 15, 2023

Proactive policing, such as pedestrian and traffic stops, is a crime prevention tactic that relies on police officer discretion to stop and search individuals they consider suspicious. A recently published study in the journal of the American Public Health Association, looking at proactive policing and preterm birth rates in New Orleans, shows that Black residents living in neighborhoods experiencing high levels of proactive policing were about three times as likely to give birth preterm (before 37 weeks) as their white neighbors.

February 15, 2023

A recent study in the journal of the American Public Health Association looked at proactive policing and preterm birth rates in New Orleans.

February 07, 2023

Over 230 faculty and professional staff members registered for programming last year to better connect with students and University resources. After that success, a new year of programming is starting up this term.

January 30, 2023

A special edition of the American Journal of Public Health featured papers by multiple researchers at the Dornsife School of Public Health on structural racism and practices that need changing.

January 24, 2023

Researchers from The Ubuntu Center at Dornsife recently traveled abroad for the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) and the Brazilian Association of Collective Health (ABRASCO) 13th National Congress.