Exploring Health, Equity and Wellness

HEALTH, JUSTICE AND ETHICS

The Health, Justice and Ethics team will use an ethical lens to explore the intersections of justice, health and equity. Areas of inquiry will likely include examining policies or practices that aim to improve outcomes for young people involved with the justice system.

Recent Publications

Faculty Members	Contact	Specialization
	Mercer Gary, PhD Assistant Professor of Philosophy 5016 MacAlister mg3864@drexel.edu	Feminist bioethics; care ethics; feminist philosophy; philosophy of technology
	Naomi E. Goldstein, PhD Professor of Psychology; Co-director of the JD/PhD Program in Law and Psychology; Director of the Juvenile Justice Research and Reform Lab Stratton 328 neg23@drexel.edu	Juvenile justice; system reform; policy and practice; adolescent development; social science research; psychology, criminal justice, and law; forensic psychology
	Amanda NeMoyer, JD, PhD Assistant Research Professor of Psychology Stratton 332 amanda.n.nemoyer@drexel.edu	Juvenile justice; Forensic psychology; Program evaluation; Policy and practice reform; Dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline; Diverting youth from justice system involvement
	Kathleen Powell, PhD Assistant Research Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies 3401 Market Street, Suite 110 kathleen.m.powell@drexel.edu	Juvenile Delinquency & Justice, Crime and the Life Course, Corrections, Punishment, and Inequality, Courts and the Legal Profession, Criminal and Juvenile Justice Policy, Research Methods
	C. Clare Strange, PhD Assistant Research Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies 3401 Market Street, Suite 202 cs3846@drexel.edu	Courts, sentencing and corrections; Treatment/rehabilitation; Harm reduction; Public health; Inequality

URBAN ENVIRONMENTS, EQUITY AND HEALTH

The Urban Environments, Equity and Health team will examine the impact of large institutions on land use patterns and urban health in environmentally and economically vulnerable communities. The project will focus on St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, situated at the intersection of the Kensington, Feltonville and Hunting Park sections of Philadelphia.

Faculty Members	Contact	Specialization
	Richardson Dilworth, PhD Professor of Politics; Department Head, Department of Politics MacAlister, Room 3025 dilworth@drexel.edu	American political development, urban politics, public policy
	Steve Vásquez Dolph, PhD Associate Teaching Professor of Global Studies and Modern Languages; Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Academic Building, 322 sd3366@drexel.edu	Early modern cultural production; ecology and representation; history and sociology of science; historical bibliography; politics and poetics of translation
	Jordan Hyatt, PhD, JD Associate Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies; Director, Center for Public Policy 3401 Market Street, Room 110-B jmh498@drexel.edu	Corrections, Re-entry and Community Supervision; Comparative and International Penology; Drug Treatment and Drug Use; Community Violence Reduction; Prison Climate, Oversight and Reform; Financial Sanctions; Scandinavian Correctional Policy; Sentencing; Experimental and Field Research
	Alexis Schulman, PhD Assistant Research Professor; Director of the Environmental Studies and Sustainability Program Dolan Fellow for Innovation in Water Science, Patrick Center for Environmental Research, Academy of Natural Sciences Patrick Center 336 as5293@drexel.edu	Environmental policy and politics, urban planning, sustainability and resilience transitions, policy implementation, local knowledge and community science

THETA: TRANSFORMING HEALTH EQUITY AND TRUST IN AN AI WORLD

The THETA team will use their combined research interests to explore various components of artificial intelligence that relate to health systems and their impact on practitioner-patient relationships. One key focus of their project is the issue of diversity, equity and inclusion and how it relates to social capital. Another key focus is on trust, including how trust is built into these platforms and is also an outcome of trustworthy systems.

Faculty Members	Contact	Specialization
	Mary F.E. Ebeling, PhD Professor of Sociology; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, 285 mfe@drexel.edu	Science and technology studies; critical data studies; algorithmic justice; marketing; data brokers and big data; healthcare privacy; biocapital; medicine; health; knowledge and power in late capital; the production of value and alternatives; anarchism and democratic potentials of artist-run spaces and collectives.
	Emmanuel F. Koku, PhD Associate Professor of Sociology; Department Head; Graduate Faculty Member, Communication, Culture & Media 3201 Arch Street, 288 emmanuelkoku@drexel.edu	Social Network Analysis; Quantitative Analysis; Mixed Methods; Medical Sociology; Social Epidemiology; Global/Immigrant Health; Globalization, Development and Underdevelopment
	Hilde Van den Bulck Professor of Communication; Department Head 3201 Arch Street, Suite 100, Room 152 hdv26@drexel.edu	Political economy of media structures; Algorithmization, datafication and platformization; Trust and digital media; Media policies for digitized media ecologies; Public (service) media; Digital media and popular culture; Digital media, popular culture and populism; Media and (collective) identities; Celebrity culture and industry; Celebrity philanthropy and activism; Fandom and anti-fandom
	Jennifer Yusin, PhD Professor of English; Director, Women’s and Gender Studies 5016 MacAlister Hall jyusin@drexel.edu	Comparative Race and Empire Studies, Philosophies of Race and Gender, Global Modernisms, LGBTQ+ Studies, Trans Studies, Psychoanalytic Studies, Postcolonial and Global Anglophone Literatures, Transatlantic Studies, and the Global South

INDIGENOUS ECOLOGIES AND WELLBEING

The Indigenous Ecologies and Wellbeing group will develop a study regarding issues of mental health and wellbeing of Indigenous immigrants from Latin America to the United States and/or Canada. Indigenous immigrants are often lumped in with Latino immigrants in such assessments, despite being culturally and linguistically distinct. The team intends to consider specific forms of relational and ecological displacement that adversely affect Indigenous immigrants’ mental health and wellbeing to determine what interventions and forms of support they may require.

Faculty Members	Contact	Specialization
	Aaron Kucyi, PhD Assistant Professor of Psychology aaron.kucyi@drexel.edu	Network neuroscience; fMRI; intracranial EEG; spontaneous thought; attention; experience sampling; mental health
	Alberto E. Morales, PhD Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Modern Languages aem464@drexel.edu	Medical Anthropology; Environmental Anthropology; Multispecies Ethnography; Global and Planetary Health; Science and Technology Studies; Health Disparities and Structural Vulnerability; Latin American Studies
	Andrew Frederick Smith, PhD Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies; Department Head, Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building (PISB), Room 321 3245 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA afs52@drexel.edu	Environmental Philosophy/Environmental Humanities; Food Justice; Climate Justice; Social and Political Philosophy; Decolonization

MULTISPECIES URBANISM AND HEALTH

The Multispecies Urbanism and Health team will take a multidisciplinary approach to addressing concerns surrounding human-wildlife interactions in urban spaces. Cities bring people and wildlife together. Recognition of urban biodiversity and of cities as sites of rich human-wildlife interactions has given rise to multispecies urbanism. This approach to urban planning and design recognizes that human and nonhuman animal health and wellbeing are closely intertwined. Interactions between humans and other life forms in urban ecosystems are influenced by a set of social, cultural, and political factors linked to infrastructure development, material flows, and governance structures. The team seeks to conduct and support multispecies urbanism research that will benefit the health and safety of humans and their wild animal neighbors in the City of Philadelphia.

Faculty Members	Contact	Specialization
	Christian Hunold, PhD Professor of Politics; Associate Dean for Faculty Advancement 3021-F MacAlister Hall hunoldc@drexel.edu	Environmental political theory; deliberative democracy; human-animal studies; multispecies ethnography; multispecies urbanism; wild horses and burros
	Monica Ilies, PhD Teaching Professor of Chemistry; Chair, Senate Committee on Academic Affairs Disque Hall 224 mi73@drexel.edu	Development of student-centered learning-teaching activities; Implementation/evaluation of active learning and evidence-based teaching/pedagogical strategies; Curriculum integrated and applicative content delivery; Structure- and fragment-based drug design guided by drug-target biological evaluation; Structural characteristics and in vivo roles of metalloproteins connected with physiopathology; Spectrometric techniques for structural analysis of small molecules and their supra-molecular assemblies; Biochemistry/molecular biology techniques for protein expression, purification, and immunodetection
	Megan V. Phifer-Rixey, PhD Assistant Professor of Biology PISB 320 Mp3754@drexel.edu	Evolution; Genetics; Adaptation; Integrative Biology; Urban; Climate
	Shelby A. Rinehart , PhD Assistant Professor PISB 319 shelby.rinehart@drexel.edu	Species interactions; bioturbation; ecosystem ecology; biogeochemistry; restoration ecology; marine and coastal ecology; environmental ethics
	Fengqing Zoe Zhang, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology Stratton 316 fengqing.zhang@drexel.edu	Multimodal neuroimaging; machine learning; brain development and aging; mental health; wearable computing and mHealth