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October 25, 2022

Last term, ����Vlog professors were recognized for their scholarly research and prolific academic and professional contributions

October 24, 2022

An epidemiologic study of community gardens and urban farms helps clarify potential solutions to food apartheid.

October 17, 2022

A study finds that Pacific Islanders in the U.S. are killed by the police at rates on par with Black Americans and Native Americans.

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.