The Drexel Urban Health Collaborative

Director of the UHC Ana Diez Roux begins a short series exploring the parallels between the 2026 World Cup and the global approach to improving public health.

In late April, the UHC, Latino Health Collective, and PHDSAG hosted an event highlighting research about how immigration enforcement is affecting the public’s health, and to learn from community organizations representing Philadelphia’s diverse immigrant communities.

Rebekah Israel Cross is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago. Her talk explored this theme within the context of philanthropy: how the current philanthropic system can perpetuate health equity retrenchment (the reduction of investment to improve health equity), and a real-world example of this taking place within the Chicago public housing system.