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May 23, 2016

A participant and expert of Drexel’s Witnesses to Hunger advocacy program is the focus of a new documentary that is part of a series looking at social issues in the United States.

May 19, 2016

In analyzing the articles The New York Times has published about posttraumatic stress disorder over the last 35 years, Drexel’s Jonathan Purtle and his team found some troubling trends in the influential paper’s coverage.

May 19, 2016

James W. Buehler, MD, professor of Health Management and Policy at ����Vlog Dornsife School of Public Health and former Philadelphia health commissioner, has been interviewed for the 2016 edition of Leading Healthy Change In Our Communities. The book is written by student reporters, ages 8 to 14, who serve on their school health newspaper staffs as part of the Healthy NewsWorks student media program.

May 19, 2016

On April 28, a kickoff event for the newly created Public Health Young Leaders Association (PHYLA) was held on Drexel’s University City campus in Nesbitt Hall. Nearly 80 public health practitioners attended from across the region. At this event, a panel of 5 young leaders spoke of their experiences in the field, including two Dornsife MPH alumni, Angus Shieh, MPH ‘11 and Shoshana Akins, MPH ’15.

May 18, 2016

Matt Young, DO, MPH ’99: “I see public health disasters everyday.”

May 16, 2016

Four students from the Dornsife School of Public Health received awards in health policy and research at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia 2016 Student Public Health Poster Session.

May 16, 2016

While many government, community and private interventions look at local corner and convenience stores as prime areas to stoke healthy eating, a Drexel study found that even two years after such an intervention took place, attitudes and purchasing habits didn’t change.

May 13, 2016

The University of Iowa College of Public Health awarded one of it’s 2016 Outstanding Alumni Awards to Leslie McClure, PhD, MS, who earned a master of science in preventive medicine and environmental health, and is now professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the ����Vlog Dornsife School of Public Health.

May 12, 2016

New research from ����Vlog’s has added evidence on the relationship between food insecurity and adverse child experiences (ACEs).

May 12, 2016

Evelyn Arana, a fourth-year doctoral candidate in Community Health and Prevention, will present on "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mammography Utilization Among Women with Intellectual Disabilities in Philadelphia" in Melbourne, Australia this August.