Dornsife SPH Welcomes Eight New Faculty

September 30, 2016

New faculty and the 20^th incoming class of students were celebrated and received their school pins at Dornsife’s annual welcoming ceremony on September 15. The incoming professors bring new expertise in structural determinants of health, occupational health exposures, intimate partner violence, and health disparities, as well as in novel statistical, geo-spatial and econometric techniques.

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Dornsife Postdoctoral Research Fellow Receives $50,000 Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

September 29, 2016

Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH, will continue examining the link between racial residential segregation and cardiovascular disease in the Deep South, supported by a 12-month grant through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s New Connections program.

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Drexel Doctoral Student Co-authors Study Evaluating Unexpected Social Effects of Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART)

September 28, 2016

As ART becomes more available in Sub-Saharan African countries with high HIV burden, an unexpected effect has emerged: since people living with HIV who are on treatment tend to look healthier and more sexually appealing, community members are concerned that ART recipients will be able to spread their HIV infection more than when they appeared ill, even when transmission while on ART is almost impossible.

The study was co-authored by Drexel University’s Astha Ramaiya, DrPH Community Health and Prevention ’18, and published in Social Science and Medicine.

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Post-Hoc Analysis Shows No Statistical Benefit of Adaptive Design in Stroke Prevention Trial

September 28, 2016

Leslie McClure, PhD, MS, professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health, led a study looking at the impact of increasing the sample size in an adaptive design clinical trial.

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Urban Health Social Epidemiologist Identifies Racial Health Inequalities in Brazil

September 26, 2016

Post-doctoral fellow Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH, has focused much of her research with the Urban Health Collaborative on the connections between race, place and health in the U.S. South. This summer, she took on a new challenge: applying her social epidemiological approach to study the health implications of residential segregation by class and race in Brazil. Early results from her work are striking, as race, place and health have rarely been discussed and studied there.

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Autism Researchers Looking at Baby Teeth to Identify Risk Factors

September 21, 2016

A group of autism researchers led by Drexel’s Craig Newschaffer will use new technology to study the baby teeth of children who have siblings with autism — considered high-risk already — to determine if they’re more likely to develop the disorder if exposed to chemicals in the womb.

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Drexel and Fire Association Receive $1.5 Million FEMA Grant to Assess Fire Service Culture

September 14, 2016

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have awarded a $1.5 million grant from the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFG) to the Fire Department Safety Officers Association (FDSOA) and the Firefighter Injury Research and Safety Trends (FIRST) program in the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University.

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Study: Safety Net Programs Don’t Support High Rates of Trauma in Participants

September 01, 2016

A recent study by researchers from Drexel University’s Center for Hunger-Free Communities found that a high number of participants in a federal cash assistance program have suffered significant childhood adversity, exposure to violence as adults and other poverty-related stressors, highlighting the need to take participants’ past trauma into account.

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