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November

  • Drexel Faculty Receives Award for Contributions to Quality of Online Education

    November 30, 2016

    Raymond Lum, MPhil, MS, director of E-Learning and associate teaching professor of Health Management and Policy in the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University, received the 2016 Director’s Award for Exceptional Service from Quality Matters, a leader in quality assurance for online education, at the organization’s annual conference in November.

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  • In Africa, Fighting HIV in Young Mothers Through Education

    November 28, 2016

    A new program run by a new faculty member in Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health will attempt to address education as a determinant of HIV risk in young South African mothers.

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  • Witness to Hunger: Exploding Stereotypes of Poverty

    November 21, 2016

    Dr. Mariana Chilton didn’t expect her program to become a movement fueled by the women that it had attracted. As an anthropologist who works directly with people, she wanted to empower those who live with poverty to speak for themselves about their experiences.

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  • Urban Health Collaborative Welcomes New Doctoral Fellows

    November 21, 2016

    The Urban Health Collaborative is pleased to announce the three awardees of the 2016-2017 UHC Doctoral Fellows program. The program supports incoming doctoral students conducting research focused on understanding and improving health in cities. Fellows participate in ongoing UHC research and training activities with faculty mentors from the UHC.

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  • Professor Loni Philip Tabb

    Professor Profile: Loni Philip Tabb, Assistant Professor Biostatistics

    November 18, 2016

    Loni Philip Tabb, PhD, Assistant Professor Biostatistics was profiled for the Fall 2016 Dornsife SPH Magazine.

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  • Alumni and Students Receive School Support to Share Innovative Research at APHA

    November 17, 2016

    Alumni, students, faculty and friends of Dornsife SPH gathered at the school's yearly reception at the APHA Annual Meeting in Denver. In addition to hosting this valuable networking event this year, the school’s Office of Student Services and Alumni Relations sponsored five alumni and five current students to attend the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting.

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  • Dean Ana Diez Roux Named American Heart Association's 2016 Ancel Keys Memorial Lecturer

    November 17, 2016

    Dean Ana Diez Roux presented the 2016 Ancel Keys Memorial Lecture at the American Heart Association's 2016 Scientific Sessions in New Orleans. Diez Roux’s talk was titled Rediscovering the role of the environment in cardiovascular health and health disparities: implications for research and policy. 

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  • Photo of Michael Yudell, second from right, wins American Public Health Award for Book Challenging the Use of Race in Genetic Research

    Dornsife's Michael Yudell Wins American Public Health Award for Book Challenging the Use of Race in Genetic Research

    November 17, 2016

    When Dornsife School of Public Health faculty member Michael Yudell’s book, Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century (Columbia University Press), was released in 2014, arguments about the use of race in genetics research continued to be unresolved. Conversations were stuck on what to do to move forward, knowing that race remains a problematic variable for use in genetic research.

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  • Faculty Focus: Welcome!

    November 15, 2016

    Since May 2015, fourteen new professors have come to Dornsife School of Public Health.

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  • Signe Wilkinson, Philadelphia Daily News and Inquirer

    Behind Philadelphia's Soda Tax

    November 15, 2016

    To pass a soda tax in Philadelphia, politics and public health quietly joined forces. The outcome of the unusual partnership was a new revenue stream to fund pre-K education, and provide health services in nine schools in poor neighborhoods – with the side-benefit of possibly improving overall health in the city that made cheesesteaks famous and obesity is becoming commonplace.

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  • Risk-Taking Behaviors Tied to Racial Disparities in HIV in Gay Communities

    November 14, 2016

    Researchers from Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health re-examined data showing a disparity between HIV prevalence in black and white men who have sex with men and found that a racial gap between them was reduced once levels of risk within their communities were considered.

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  • Arthur Frank Ramazzini Award

    Drexel’s Arthur L. Frank Receives Ramazzini Award for Career Devoted to Occupational Health

    November 10, 2016

    For his outstanding contributions to safeguard public health, Arthur L. Frank, MD, PhD, professor and chair emeritus in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health in the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University, has received the 2016 Ramazzini Award from the Collegium Ramazzini, an international academy comprised of 180 internationally renowned experts in the fields of occupational and environmental health.

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  • Tom Farley

    "Numbers Guy" Tom Farley

    November 02, 2016

    Philadelphia's Health Commissioner shares his perspective and plans with DornsifeSPH Magazine editor Linda Wright Moore.

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  • Photo of Drexel students in Cuba, image by Idris T. Robinson, MPH, Office of Global Health

    Discovering the Cuban Way of Life and Health

    November 02, 2016

    For the first time, Dornsife public health and Drexel medical students visit our estranged island neighbor, to explore its rich culture and prevention-infused approach to health care.

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