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February

The Ubuntu Center Launches Groundbreaking Project to Address Structural Racism in Healthcare with $6 Million Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant

February 29, 2024

New RWJF grant awarded to the Ubuntu Center puts the needs, ideas, and voices of the community at the forefront to address deep-rooted structural racism within the healthcare industry and advance equity and justice in healthcare systems.

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Students Compete in Dornsife’s Fifth Annual Public Health Case Competition

February 22, 2024

The theme of this year's case competition was the intersection between public health and housing, with seven teams presenting creative solutions and infographics.

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Climate Change Linked to Rise in Mental Distress Among Teens, according to Drexel Study

February 22, 2024

Worsening human-induced climate change may have effects beyond the widely reported rising sea levels, higher temperatures, and impacts on food supply and migration – and may also extend to influencing mental distress among high schoolers in the United States.

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Faculty Highlights: Recent Awards and Grants

February 16, 2024

Last term, Drexel professors were awarded sponsored research grants and major gifts, honors and recognition.

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Eviction From Rental Housing and Its Links to Health

February 15, 2024

Growing attention to the high prevalence and inequitable distribution of eviction has led to a rapid proliferation of studies on eviction and health. To gain a more comprehensive understanding of these studies' methods and findings, researchers at Dornsife conducted a scoping review.

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Number of At-Risk Youth with Intellectual Disability and Autism in the U.S. Foster Care System is Growing

February 12, 2024

Recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics, researchers at Drexel University’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute, in collaboration with George Mason University’s Department of Social Work and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Social Work, engaged an intersectional analysis to examine foster care involvement among youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (including autism) and how it has evolved in the United States using a cross-section of 2016 national Medicaid claims data.

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February

The Ubuntu Center Launches Groundbreaking Project to Address Structural Racism in Healthcare with $6 Million Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant

Students Compete in Dornsife’s Fifth Annual Public Health Case Competition

Climate Change Linked to Rise in Mental Distress Among Teens, according to Drexel Study

Faculty Highlights: Recent Awards and Grants

Eviction From Rental Housing and Its Links to Health

Number of At-Risk Youth with Intellectual Disability and Autism in the U.S. Foster Care System is Growing