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December

  • It's The Heat: How Mental Health is Affected Among Urban Youth

    December 16, 2025

    Over the next five years, Josiah Kephart from the Urban Health Collaborative at the Dornsife School of Public Health will work with an international team of researchers granted $3.9M to study the mental health effects of climate-change-related heat exposure on urban youth.

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  • New Resource Sheet Provides Methods to Help Researchers Understand Residential Segregation

    December 08, 2025

    The UHC's Research & Data Core has developed a resource to help researchers better understand measurement options for measuring the clustering and concentration of different groups of residents. It presents several measures related to residential segregation, their formulas (with key references), and examples of existing empirical evidence that uses each measure.

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  • Philadephia Awoke Again To Another Tragic Pedestrian Death

    December 08, 2025

    In less than a week, two pedestrians were killed on an 8-block stretch in University City in Philadelphia. These deaths, both due to drivers speeding and ignoring red lights, highlight the major road safety issues Philadelphians face when walking. What’s more, both these incidents took place on our doorstep – literally – at the Urban Health Collaborative.

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