This page features news from the Office of Culture, Community and Opportunity (CCO) and related news from Dornsife programs, students and faculty doing this work.

2025

CCO launched the 2025-26 IDEA Fellowships program with a call for project proposals from interested faculty and staff. (9/15/25)

The recipients of Office of Culture, Community and Opportunity's annual award were Stephanie Hernandez, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor, Jourdyn Lawrence, PhD, MSPH, Assistant Professor, and Agus Surachman, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor, all in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department. (2/27/25)

2024

Meet the 2024-25 cohort of IDEA Fellows, dated 11/20/24. Dornsife's fifth and largest cohort of IDEA Fellows will support new and ongoing projects at the school.

Read about Drexel Dornsife's Collective Resilience Fellows, who planned thoughtful student activities during the year including Listening from the Heart and the Wall of Wellness (6/11/24).

The recipient of Drexel Dornsife's 2024 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Award was the Latino Health Collective led by Ana Martinez-Donate, PhD, Professor, Community Health & Prevention, and Mariana Lazo, MD, PhD, ScM, Associate Research Professor, Community Health & Prevention. This award recognizes a team of faculty, staff and students who strive to build and nurture an institutional culture where inclusiveness is a core value, collectively foster our vision of health as a human right, and advance our goals of eliminating health disparities and improving health in cities. (4/3/24).

Members of CCO presented their case study on the Dornsife's IDEA Fellows program at the 2024 ASPPH Annual Meeting (3/21/24).

2023

Meet the 2023-24 cohort of IDEA Fellows, dated 12/1/23.

Reneé H. Moore, PhD, research professor in the department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and director of the Biostatistics Scientific Collaboration Center (BSC), has taken on the role of Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging. In this role, Dr. Moore will develop a vision and strategy for a School Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging that will continue to advance our School Action Plan and build and expand on the great work led by Scarlett Bellamy, ScD, and the Taskforce. Learn more about Dr. Moore (5/01/23)

2022

Read the AmStat News article Recognizing Academic Departments for JEDI Efforts, dated 12/1/22, which recognizes Dornsife's Epidemiology and Biostatistics department for its efforts to "embed justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) into [the department's] development and growth." The article includes a Q&A with Reneé H. Moore, PhD, and Leslie McClure, PhD.

Meet the 2022-23 cohort of IDEA Fellows, dated 11/9/22.

Read Dornsife's 2022 Action Plan Progress Report on key activities completed or progress, along with plans for future sustainability, dated 8/19/22.

Read Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Awards Dornsife Grant to Transform Academia for Equity, dated 3/31/22.

Dornsife's new Anti-Racism Research Series will engage as many perspectives as possible from all educational levels at the School. Learn more about the first event on Friday, 2/18/22.

2021

Read NIH Awards Drexel University $14.4 Million for Health Disparities Research, dated 10/14/21. Learn more about the FIRST Initiative.

Read Reflecting on Dornsife’s Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Anti-Racism for an update on the school's action plan. Faculty, staff and students who have been involved in our efforts share highlights and envision the work ahead, dated 6/30/21.

Read Drexel Names New Center on Racism and Health, Center Director about Dornsife's The Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements and Population Health Equity, dated 5/20/21. Learn more about The Ubuntu Center.

Read a message to the Dornsife community regarding events in Georgia from Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH, Dean and Distinguished University Professor of Epidemiology and Scarlett Bellamy, ScD, Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, dated 3/18/21.

2020

Read about the IDEA Graduate Fellowship at Dornsife, dated 12/16/20.

Read about a gift from Drexel University alumna Dana Dornsife and her husband David to help launch a new Center on Racism and Health and recruit and retain faculty experts on racial inequities in health equity at the Dornsife School of Public Health, dated 12/2/20.

Read a message from Dornsife's Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice on the police violence which took the life of Walter Wallace Jr., dated 11/2/20.

Read Dornsife Stands in Solidarity With Those Demanding Justice, a statement from Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH, Dean and Distinguished University Professor of Epidemiology and Scarlett Bellamy, ScD, Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, dated 6/8/20.

Read a message to the Dornsife community from Dean Diez Roux, dated 6/5/20.