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From the Dean's Desk

The monthly Dean's message to students, faculty, staff, alumni, and our community provides updates on the school, reflects on our school's mission, and offers a personal take on what we in public health—through both action and facts—can do to make our societies healthier and more equitable for all.

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  • A Turning Point for Public Health?

    1/27/2021 10:35:04 AM

    2021 could be the beginning of an auspicious year for public health.

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  • Best Wishes for the Holidays and 2021

    12/21/2020 8:36:04 AM

    Dean Diez Roux discusses how 2020 has also shown us what we can do together.  

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  • Three Public Health Challenges and Hopes For 2021

    11/30/2020 11:05:11 AM

    A reflection on the year of 2020 and how it will be remembered.

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  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Public Health

    9/29/2020 1:57:08 PM

    Dean Diez Roux reflects on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's major public health-related contributions.

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  • A Pandemic Walk Through Philadelphia Neighborhoods

    8/31/2020 9:09:00 AM

    In some ways the pandemic has allowed us to see neighborhood differences that have always been in plain sight much better than before, and perhaps envision a world in which these things could actually be different.

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  • Summer Reading

    7/31/2020 9:09:00 AM

    During these uncertain times, reading can not only be educational, it can provide an opportunity for some necessary reflection. 

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  • The Systems That Drive Health

    6/30/2020 2:13:00 PM

    Addressing the fundamental causes of the profound and pervasive health inequities that we see by social class and race in our societies requires a systemic approach: an approach that acts on the “structure and policies” of our society.

    Inequities in health have been and continue to be today powerful motivators for social change. There are many things we can do as a school of public health to make visible the links, to show how systems operate and what their health implications are.

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