2016

- Drexel and Philadelphia Awarded Multi-Million, Multi-Year Promise Neighborhood Grant
  
  December 21, 2016
  
  Drexel University President John Fry, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, Superintendent William Hite, PhD, community members and area elected officials gathered at Morton McMichael Elementary School on Dec. 21 to officially announce that the community surrounding Drexel in West Philadelphia has won the 2016 Promise Neighborhoods Program Implementation Grant Competition. Drexel was the lead applicant of the grant, on which the City of Philadelphia, The School District of Philadelphia and several other area groups and non-profits also partnered.
  
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- Black Males Nearly 3 Times as Likely to Die Due to Police Action, Study Finds
  
  December 20, 2016
  
  A Drexel public health researcher used a population health view to describe disparities in the death of males in the United States due to legal intervention. He found that black males are almost three times as likely to die as their white peers.
  
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- Top Dornsife School of Public Health Stories of 2016
  
  December 19, 2016
  
  As we renew our commitment to protect and promote the health of the public in 2017, here’s a look back at some of the milestones and proud moments we covered in Dornsife SPH publications in 2016.
  
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- Election Reflections – Through a Public Health Lens
  
  December 19, 2016
  
  On December 1, students and faculty from Drexel and other area universities gathered to reflect on implications and impact of the presidential election for the practice of public health. Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH, Dean of the Dornsife School of Public Health, moderated the discussion – charging a panel of faculty and students from the school to analyze what the election outcome may mean for the field and what the public health community should be thinking about and doing together.
  
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- Student Master's Project Evaluates Local City-Hospital Health, Literacy and Recreation Partnership
  
  December 14, 2016
  
  As an intern in the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)’s Office of Government Affairs, Community Relations and Advocacy, Daniel Kinder, MPH Community Health and Prevention ’17, had the opportunity to bring skills from the classroom into the community, and make an impact on a real-time project with great potential.
  
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- Dornsife Global Health Director Receives Award for Educational Partnerships with Cuba
  
  December 14, 2016
  
  Shannon P. Marquez, PhD, MEng, associate vice provost at Drexel University and director of the Dornsife School of Public Health Office of Global Health, was recognized recently by the University of Cienfuegos for her role in strengthening educational partnerships between the United States and Cuba, specifically in Cienfuegos.
  
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- Doctoral Candidate Selected as NACCHO Health and Disability Fellow
  
  December 14, 2016
  
  Evelyn Arana, MS, DrPH candidate in Community Health and Prevention, was recently accepted into the Health and Disability Fellowship program for the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO).
  
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- MPH Student Selected for Health Management Fellowship After Graduation
  
  December 12, 2016
  
  T. Jibri Douglas, MPH ’17, has been selected as a 2017-2018 Postgraduate Health Administration Fellow for Main Line Health, a not-for-profit health system serving portions of Philadelphia and its western suburbs.
  
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- More are Positive About HPV Vaccine on Twitter Than Not, Drexel Study Finds
  
  December 12, 2016
  
  A Drexel University study into sentiments toward the HPV vaccine on Twitter found that significantly more tweets post positive sentiments toward vaccines, such as the value of prevention and protection, than not.
  
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- Drexel Professor to Discuss Effects of Constant Trauma on Young Men of Color
  
  December 08, 2016
  
  As a part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s “Forward Promise” webinar series, Drexel University’s John Rich, MD,a professor of Health Management and Policy in the Dornsife School of Public Health and director of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice, will discuss a disturbing trend in how many people perceive violence experienced by boys and young men of color: That the victims are at fault.
  
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