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November 21, 2016

The Urban Health Collaborative is pleased to announce the three awardees of the 2016-2017 UHC Doctoral Fellows program. The program supports incoming doctoral students conducting research focused on understanding and improving health in cities. Fellows participate in ongoing UHC research and training activities with faculty mentors from the UHC.

November 18, 2016

Loni Philip Tabb, PhD, Assistant Professor Biostatistics was profiled for the Fall 2016 Dornsife SPH Magazine.

November 17, 2016

Alumni, students, faculty and friends of Dornsife SPH gathered at the school's yearly reception at the APHA Annual Meeting in Denver. In addition to hosting this valuable networking event this year, the school’s Office of Student Services and Alumni Relations sponsored five alumni and five current students to attend the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting.

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.