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- Higher COVID-19 Vaccination and Narrower Disparities in U.S. Cities with Paid Sick Leave
  
  November 08, 2022
  
  Cities with paid sick leave policies have a higher rate of COVID vaccination among working-age populations compared to cities without such policies.
  
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- Study Highlights Need for Community Food-Growing Spaces in Philadelphia
  
  October 24, 2022
  
  An epidemiologic study of community gardens and urban farms helps clarify potential solutions to food apartheid.
  
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- New Study Shows Pacific Islanders Face High Risk of Fatal Police Violence
  
  October 17, 2022
  
  A study finds that Pacific Islanders in the U.S. are killed by the police at rates on par with Black Americans and Native Americans.
  
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- NIH R01 Funding Granted to Improve Small Area Estimation for State and Local Health Departments
  
  September 29, 2022
  
  Researchers at Dornsife receive NIH R01 grant to develop and disseminate statistical methods that will help state and local health departments study neighborhood-level health disparities.
  
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- Q+A: Links Between Eviction, Post-Traumatic Stress, and Emergency Department Use
  
  September 27, 2022
  
  New research finds strong links between eviction, post-traumatic stress, and emergency department use among low-income individuals.
  
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- Welcoming New Students, Staff and Faculty to Dornsife
  
  September 16, 2022
  
  A long-standing tradition at the School, new students, faculty, and professional staff were officially welcomed to the Dornsife community at the annual Pinning Ceremony.
  
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- New Faculty With Wide Range of Public Health Expertise Join Dornsife This Academic Year
  
  September 12, 2022
  
  Dornsife welcomes 15 new faculty members in the 2022-2023 academic year. Permeating their work is a focus on understanding and intervening on systemic racism and inequality as drivers of health.
  
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- New Primary Care Finder Tool in Philadelphia
  
  August 29, 2022
  
  Dornsife faculty collaborate with the local health department to ensure the needs of Latino and other diverse communities in Philadelphia are met when using a new primary care finder tool.
  
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- Q+A: Can Addressing Childhood Trauma Help Prevent PTSD Among Violence Victims?
  
  August 15, 2022
  
  As many communities across the country struggle with rising violence, a team of researchers from the Dornsife School of Public Health took a unique approach to better understand the experiences of victims of urban violence.
  
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- The Future of Careers in Infectious Disease
  
  August 11, 2022
  
  As the field of infection prevention faces staffing shortages, Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health is training the next generation of public health and health care practitioners who need to prevent infectious diseases in a variety of settings.
  
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