Dornsife Ranks #1 School of Public Health in Philadelphia Region by U.S. News & World Report
April 9, 2024
Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health (DSPH) ranks among the top 25 overall public health schools and programs in the nation by the U.S. News & World Report 2024.
Drexel Dornsife ranks #18 (tied) out of 213 public health schools and programs accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health. Once more, this report ranks DSPH as the #1 school of public health in the Greater Philadelphia region.
The rankings are released annually by U.S. News & World Report and are based on peer assessment surveys. As more schools and programs are accredited, the rankings become more competitive. Since 2015, DSPH has been recognized as a top graduate school nationally.
Beginning in 2023, U.S. News & World Report began ranking public health specialty areas which are also based off peer review. DSPH has ranked for the following fields of public health in 2024:
“This peer recognition speaks to the Dornsife community’s many contributions to innovation in public health research and education,” said Gina Lovasi, PhD, MPH, interim dean of DSPH and Dornsife associate professor of urban health. “We continue to strive to bring health equity and human rights centrally into all that we do and look forward to continued connection to peer schools and programs so that we can collectively improve in making diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging a reality in our work and for our students,”
Each of these rankings reflects the school’s commitment to improving the health of communities and populations through education and training programs, conducting research, and forging cooperative partnerships with other civic, business, and academic institutions who aim to solve health challenges across the globe.
DSPH has grown and expanded since the last release of rankings in 2023, and major achievements include:
- DSPH received a five-year $20 million award from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Common Fund through the agency’s Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) program to study health equity solutions nationwide.
- The Urban Health Collaborative at DSPH launched a new NIH-funded Climate Change & Urban Health Research Center (CCUH) which aims to create and disseminate/translate evidence that will support the urban policies needed to address the health and equity impacts of climate change in cities.
- The Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements, and Population Health Equity at DSPH was awarded a three-year $6 million grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to illuminate and address healthcare’s role in perpetuating structural racism.
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation also renewed their Transforming Academia for Equity program funding at Dornsife enabling the school to continue to expand its work to identify and challenge systems that have hindered the pace and innovation of health equity research.
- At the start of the 2023-24 academic year, DSPH welcomed 10 new faculty including the second cohort of NIH-funded FIRST faculty (Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation), a partnership with the Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions.
- With 100K Strong in the Americas Innovation funding from Colombia’s Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MinCiencias), CAF, Development Bank of Latin America and the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, DSPH and the Universidad de los Andes increased opportunities for student exchange and participation in global practicums focused on important issues in urban health, health equity and resiliency.
- DSPH continues to expand and adapt online program offerings to meet the needs of public health professionals, including online master's degrees in Infection Prevention and Control, Urban Health, Epidemiology, Global Health and more.
As a leader in urban health and community engaged public health, DSPH continues to advance its founding commitment to health as a human right and to social justice as key to improving population health.
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