MPH Student Lands Post-Graduation Job through Hard Work and Dornsife Connections

April 26, 2017

Katrina Obieta, MPH Health Management and Policy ’17, had an ambitious game plan for finding a job after graduation: apply to 50 jobs during Winter quarter to get a job by graduation in June. Her dedication and hard work paid off: midway through finals week in March, Obieta landed a position as Strategy Analyst at Cancer Treatment Centers of America's main headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida.

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Dornsife Doctoral Alumna Starts ASPPH/CDC Public Health Workforce Development Fellowship

April 26, 2017

Purni Abeysekara, DrPH ’16, MPH, learned that she had been accepted for a fellowship supported by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) two days before she presented her Community Health and Prevention doctoral dissertation defense in December.

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Dornsife Students Organize Timely Talk on Opioid Interventions During 2017 National Public Health Week

April 26, 2017

With the opioid epidemic devastating communities across the country, Dornsife students elected to hear from an innovative expert on opioid overdose reduction for National Public Health Week’s marquee event. The event capped a week of student-led public health awareness activities around Drexel’s University City campus.

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U.S. Surgeon General Visits Drexel University to Discuss Emotional Wellness

April 26, 2017

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, made one of his first collegiate campus visits to Drexel University earlier this month, to hear from leaders about several key issues in public health - the opioid epidemic and emotional stress and well-being.

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Beyond Brochures: How Do We Create Systems for Prevention and Equity?

April 21, 2017

At a lecture hosted by the Urban Health Collaborative, Larry Cohen, MSW, founder and Executive Director of Prevention Institute, described a lifetime of work to promote prevention and translate it into real action.

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Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation Funds Drexel Design and Public Health Students to Collaborate on Solutions for Local Behavioral Health and Housing Insecurity Issues

April 19, 2017

A new three-year grant from the Scattergood Foundation will transform an annual Design and Health course into the centerpiece of a yearlong health and design research process, in which students and faculty will work to create, prototype and present solutions that can be brought forward and developed in the real world.

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Citizen Science Documentary “The Crowd & The Cloud” features Witnesses to Hunger

April 14, 2017

Witnesses to Hunger, the community advocacy organization within the Center for Hunger-Free Communities, is featured in The Crowd & The Cloud, a new 4-part documentary about the power of citizen science.

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Drexel Faculty Member Contributes to National Strategy to Eliminate Hepatitis B and C

April 12, 2017

Alison A Evans, ScD, associate professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics served on a National Academy of Medicine consensus committee to develop a strategy for the elimination of viral hepatitis B and C in the United States by 2030. The group recently released its second report which details specific actions to achieve elimination of the disease through information, interventions, service delivery, financing, and research.

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Drexel’s Healing Hurt People Receives National Award for Innovation in Aiding Crime Victims

April 12, 2017

Drexel’s Healing Hurt People received an award from the National Office for Victims of Crime on April 7 for its work toward making victims of violent crime less likely to be injured again.

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Dornsife Alumna Wen-kuni Ceant Receives Fulbright Student Award

April 12, 2017

Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health alumna Wen-kuni Ceant, MPH Health Management and Policy ’16, has been offered a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant in Public Health to Senegal. The award comes from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Ceant will be evaluating the implementation of a new healthcare prepayment system with experts at L’Institut Mère-Enfant in Kaolack (IMEK), Senegal, with an eye towards refining and developing a model to facilitate greater access and better care for patients.

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Record-Breaking Eight Drexel Dragons Named Fulbright Grantees

April 12, 2017

Eight students and alumni from Drexel were offered grants from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program this year.

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Purse Strings, Not Heart Strings: Revenue Emphasis Helped Philly ‘Soda Tax’ Pass Instead of Health Argument

April 10, 2017

In a behind-the-scenes look at how policymakers formed Philadelphia’s sugar-sweetened beverage tax, researchers from Drexel University found that an emphasis on revenue generation for pre-kindergarten education, not health benefits, served as a winning strategy.

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