Release Date: June 11, 2024

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Welcome from the Dean

Welcome to the new issue of the Dornsife SPH magazine. As you flip through these pages you will read about exciting emerging research, new activities, and compelling stories featuring our faculty, staff, students, and alumni all happening at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health (DSPH).

Since our last issue, there has been much research growth and recognition of our school’s long track record of partnering with communities and organizations to improve the health of populations.

Our expertise in community-led, co-created research is reflected in the initiatives recently added to our school’s portfolio, which are featured in this issue:

Studying health equity solutions across the nation through a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Common Fund for DSPH to serve as the nationwide coordinating center for the Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) program;

Exploring the impacts of climate change on health and equity in cities across the Americas through a multimillion-dollar grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences that establishes the new Drexel Climate Change & Urban Health Center at DSPH’s Urban Health Collaborative; and

Illuminating and addressing healthcare’s role in perpetuating structural racism through a three-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to DSPH’s Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements, and Population Health Equity.

Additionally, we were pleased to start off the 2023-24 academic year welcoming 10 new faculty, including the second cohort of NIH-funded Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) faculty, a partnership with the Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions.

Though not all-encompassing of the wonderful things happening here, I hope the magazine's sample of DSPH stories will resonate with you, the reader. Thank you for picking up this issue.

Gina S. Lovasi, PhD, MPH
Dana and David Dornsife Dean
Professor of Epidemiology
Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health