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November 17, 2016

Dean Ana Diez Roux presented the 2016 Ancel Keys Memorial Lecture at the American Heart Association's 2016 Scientific Sessions in New Orleans. Diez Roux’s talk was titled Rediscovering the role of the environment in cardiovascular health and health disparities: implications for research and policy. 

November 17, 2016

When Dornsife School of Public Health faculty member Michael Yudell’s book, Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century (Columbia University Press), was released in 2014, arguments about the use of race in genetics research continued to be unresolved. Conversations were stuck on what to do to move forward, knowing that race remains a problematic variable for use in genetic research.

November 15, 2016

Since May 2015, fourteen new professors have come to Dornsife School of Public Health.

November 15, 2016

To pass a soda tax in Philadelphia, politics and public health quietly joined forces. The outcome of the unusual partnership was a new revenue stream to fund pre-K education, and provide health services in nine schools in poor neighborhoods – with the side-benefit of possibly improving overall health in the city that made cheesesteaks famous and obesity is becoming commonplace.

November 14, 2016

Researchers from ÌÇÐÄVlog’s Dornsife School of Public Health re-examined data showing a disparity between HIV prevalence in black and white men who have sex with men and found that a racial gap between them was reduced once levels of risk within their communities were considered.

November 10, 2016

For his outstanding contributions to safeguard public health, Arthur L. Frank, MD, PhD, professor and chair emeritus in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health in the Dornsife School of Public Health at ÌÇÐÄVlog, has received the 2016 Ramazzini Award from the Collegium Ramazzini, an international academy comprised of 180 internationally renowned experts in the fields of occupational and environmental health.

November 02, 2016

Philadelphia's Health Commissioner shares his perspective and plans with DornsifeSPH Magazine editor Linda Wright Moore.

November 02, 2016

For the first time, Dornsife public health and Drexel medical students visit our estranged island neighbor, to explore its rich culture and prevention-infused approach to health care.

October 27, 2016

A transformative gift from Alumna Dana Dornsife MBA ’83 and her husband David brings a new name and new possibilities to the school of public health at Drexel.

October 25, 2016

In late October, 12,000 public health experts will come together in Denver for the 2016 APHA Annual Meeting and Expo, with a focus on health equity and ensuring the right to health.