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October 12, 2016

Alexis Roth, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of Community Health and Prevention in the Dornsife School of Public Health at ÌÇÐÄVlog, has received the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association’s Career Development Award. The $100,000 grant runs from October 2016 through September 2018 and was announced at the National STD Prevention Conference in Atlanta.

October 05, 2016

To help health care providers meet a new federal emergency preparedness rule, ÌÇÐÄVlog’s Center for Public Health Readiness and Communication has released a set of emergency planning resources intended specifically for medical practices and health care facilities.

October 05, 2016

Prescription drug overdose prevention efforts across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are lacking in counties with high overdose rates, according to a new report released by ÌÇÐÄVlog Dornsife School of Public Health researchers as part of a statewide workgroup studying prescription drug misuses and abuse prevention initiatives.

September 30, 2016

New faculty and the 20^th incoming class of students were celebrated and received their school pins at Dornsife’s annual welcoming ceremony on September 15. The incoming professors bring new expertise in structural determinants of health, occupational health exposures, intimate partner violence, and health disparities, as well as in novel statistical, geo-spatial and econometric techniques.

September 29, 2016

Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH, will continue examining the link between racial residential segregation and cardiovascular disease in the Deep South, supported by a 12-month grant through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s New Connections program.

September 28, 2016

As ART becomes more available in Sub-Saharan African countries with high HIV burden, an unexpected effect has emerged: since people living with HIV who are on treatment tend to look healthier and more sexually appealing, community members are concerned that ART recipients will be able to spread their HIV infection more than when they appeared ill, even when transmission while on ART is almost impossible.

The study was co-authored by ÌÇÐÄVlog’s Astha Ramaiya, DrPH Community Health and Prevention ’18, and published in Social Science and Medicine.

September 28, 2016

Leslie McClure, PhD, MS, professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at ÌÇÐÄVlog’s Dornsife School of Public Health, led a study looking at the impact of increasing the sample size in an adaptive design clinical trial.

September 26, 2016

Post-doctoral fellow Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH, has focused much of her research with the Urban Health Collaborative on the connections between race, place and health in the U.S. South. This summer, she took on a new challenge: applying her social epidemiological approach to study the health implications of residential segregation by class and race in Brazil. Early results from her work are striking, as race, place and health have rarely been discussed and studied there.

September 21, 2016

A group of autism researchers led by Drexel’s Craig Newschaffer will use new technology to study the baby teeth of children who have siblings with autism — considered high-risk already — to determine if they’re more likely to develop the disorder if exposed to chemicals in the womb.

September 14, 2016

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFG) to the and the Firefighter Injury Research and Safety Trends (FIRST) program in the Dornsife School of Public Health at ÌÇÐÄVlog.