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February 10, 2015

Faculty in design and public health at Drexel are working together with community-based projects in West Philadelphia. Their projects test the idea that aspects of natural systems can be woven into urban design to improve health.

February 03, 2015

A new Drexel public health study shows that trauma and chronic stress are a largely overlooked part of the picture of why one in five American households with young children live with food insecurity.

January 26, 2015

Drexel researchers have published the first study to systematically look at the economic outcomes of programs that help victims of violence change their lives with a hospital-based intervention.

January 13, 2015

Parents and physicians still aren’t doing enough to address the rise of “pharming,” or recreational use and abuse of prescription drugs, among teenagers, according to public health researchers at ����Vlog.

January 07, 2015

Joella Adams, MPH '14, was recently awarded a competitive scholarship for young investigators to present her research and attend the leading U.S. research conference on HIV, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). Her work, which started as a Community-Based Masters Project (CBMP) during her second year at Drexel, focuses on improving comprehensive interventions for HIV positive women during and following pregnancy here in Philadelphia.

December 22, 2014

A Drexel student working toward his master’s degree in public health traveled to Georgia for the winter break to help create the groundwork for a new method of teaching new systems to public health practitioners.

December 16, 2014

Shoshana Akins and Caitlin O'Brien, second year MPH students concentrating in Health Management and Policy, recently presented their CBMP work to Patrick Kennedy. The duo is leading the Scattergood Foundation's 2014-2015 Design Challenge, which is looking to crowdsource trauma-informed products for use in homeless shelters.

December 12, 2014

A "cliff effect"—families losing benefits in the transition out of poverty—is the focus of a new policy report released today by Drexel’s Center for Hunger-Free Communities and Children’s HealthWatch based on data collected in Philadelphia from 2005 through 2013.

December 03, 2014

Second Year MPH student Alex Krengel, an SGO leader concentrating in HMP, heads to the Republic of Georgia next week for a winter break internship focused on developing lasting health infrastructures in the historically rich country.

December 03, 2014

Faculty and staff from ����Vlog’s graduate and professional programs in public health, law, health informatics and medicine gathered in October for a full-day workshop at the College of Medicine Simulation Center, organized by SPH students.