Drexel Awarded $14 Million NIH Grant to Recruit Diverse Faculty for Health Disparities Research
October 19, 2021
Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, Dana and David Dornsife dean and distinguished university professor of epidemiology at the Dornsife School of Public Health, and Laura N. Gitlin, PhD, distinguished university professor, executive director of the AgeWell Collaboratory and dean of the College of Nursing and Health Professions, were quoted in an Oct. 18 Philadelphia Business Journal article that reported that the colleges received a 5-year, $14.4 million “Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation” grant from the National Institutes of Health to hire, retain and support diverse, early career researchers with a focus on health disparities research.
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