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February 08, 2017

A study led by faculty from ÌÇÐÄVlog’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 ÌÇÐÄVlog researchers partnered with the City of Philadelphia.

January 24, 2017

Awarded $12 million by the Wellcome Trust as part of the its new Our Planet, Our Health initiative. The research network led by Drexel’s Ana Diez Roux will explore the impact of urbanization and urban policies on the health and environmental sustainability of Latin American cities and how lessons learned there can be applied to cities worldwide.

January 24, 2017

Como parte de su iniciativa “Nuestro Planeta, Nuestra Salud”, el Wellcome Trust aporta 12 millones de dólares a la red de investigadores dirigida por Ana Diez Roux, Decana de la Escuela de Salud Pública de Drexel. El objetivo del proyecto es explorar el impacto de la urbanización y las políticas urbanas en la sostenibilidad de la salud y el medio ambiente en las ciudades de América Latina y estudiar cómo lo aprendido en esas ciudades  se puede aplicar a contextos urbanos de todo el mundo.

January 18, 2017

Although local health department officials perceive population mental health as a growing issue that should be addressed by public health agencies, a new ÌÇÐÄVlog study from the Dornsife School of Public Health concluded that more resources, training and education, and systems-level changes are needed to embrace population-based approaches to improve mental health in communities.