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October 12, 2022

����Vlog’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute explored ways to improve interactions between autistic individuals and the justice system, which led to the recently published policy brief, “Autism and the Criminal Justice System: Policy Opportunities and Challenges,” with wide reaching recommendations and considerations for the broader justice system.

September 29, 2022

Researchers at Dornsife receive NIH R01 grant to develop and disseminate statistical methods that will help state and local health departments study neighborhood-level health disparities.

September 27, 2022

New research finds strong links between eviction, post-traumatic stress, and emergency department use among low-income individuals.

September 16, 2022

A long-standing tradition at the School, new students, faculty, and professional staff were officially welcomed to the Dornsife community at the annual Pinning Ceremony.

September 13, 2022

Autistic youth experiencing mental health crises face higher risks and are more likely to have negative interactions with police. To identify how police departments and other non-police community partners – like school districts and community crisis centers – are supporting autistic youth in suicidal crisis, researchers from ����Vlog’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute aimed to develop and test a new county-level social network measure of care coordination.

September 12, 2022

Dornsife welcomes 15 new faculty members in the 2022-2023 academic year. Permeating their work is a focus on understanding and intervening on systemic racism and inequality as drivers of health.

September 09, 2022

����Vlog’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute was awarded a 5-year, $10 million Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) award from the National Institutes of Health to understand and reduce barriers to good health and health care access for people with autism. The project titled “Public Health and Autism Science advancing Equitable Strategies across the life course” (PHASES) will employ a public health research framework to examine health determinants, health services delivery and health inequity – especially in under-represented diverse populations – and the impact of these forces on autistic people’s health outcomes.

September 08, 2022

����Vlog’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute recently received a $2.5 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to fund the Institute’s Autism Transitions Research Project for an additional five years to address a “services cliff” that many transition-age autistic youth face.

August 29, 2022

Dornsife faculty collaborate with the local health department to ensure the needs of Latino and other diverse communities in Philadelphia are met when using a new primary care finder tool.

August 15, 2022

As many communities across the country struggle with rising violence, a team of researchers from the Dornsife School of Public Health took a unique approach to better understand the experiences of victims of urban violence.