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- Dornsife Hosts Webinar Series: Emerging Issues in the Coronavirus Pandemic
  
  March 24, 2020
  
  A new coronavirus webinar series featuring Dornsife School of Public Health experts will focus on implications, knowledge and news. Where are we and what might be next?
  
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- COVID-19 and Detention: Respecting Human Rights
  
  March 24, 2020
  
  Dornsife's Director of the Office of Global Health, Joe Amon, PhD, MSPH, says detention centers and prisons must take steps now to limit COVID-19 spread in confined and crowded conditions, in this piece for the Health and Human Rights Journal.
  
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- COVID-19 Q&A With Dornsife School of Public Health Dean Ana V. Diez Roux, MD, PhD
  
  March 19, 2020
  
  In this Q&A, the Dornsife School of Public Health Dean Ana V. Diez Roux, MD, PhD shares the latest on COVID-19.
  
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- Heavy Spring Rainfall is Followed by Spikes in Gastrointestinal Illness in Philadelphia
  
  March 16, 2020
  
  Heavy spring rainfall in Philadelphia may lead to twice the rate of acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI), such as diarrhea or vomiting, throughout the city, reports a three-year study recently published in PLOS One from researchers at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health.
  
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- Transgender Adults Holding Gender-Affirming IDs Have Better Mental Health
  
  March 16, 2020
  
  Having gender-affirming documents, such as a passport, driver’s license, or birth certificate, may improve mental health among transgender adults, according to findings published today in The Lancet Public Health from researchers at Drexel University.
  
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- Drexel Panels Address COVID-19 Best Practices
  
  March 11, 2020
  
  The College of Nursing and Health Professions and Dornsife School of Public Health hosted discussions on how healthcare professionals and the general public can be prepared to face the novel coronavirus.
  
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- Dornsife Hosts "Looking Beyond Fear: A Public Health Approach to Coronavirus"
  
  March 10, 2020
  
  A Dornsife special event discussed the emerging coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Dornsife experts shared public health approaches to combat the spread of the virus, employing their unique expertise and backgrounds in public health.
  
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- Ending Discrimination in Healthcare
  
  March 02, 2020
  
  In honor of UNAIDS Zero Discrimination Day, Joe Amon, PhD, MSPH, authored a piece in the Journal of the International AIDS Society.
  
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- Public Health and Law Experts Issue Guidelines for U.S. Response to Coronavirus Transmission
  
  March 02, 2020
  
  Dornsife faculty including Dean Ana Diez Roux joined over 450 public health and legal experts across the country to issue critical guidelines for the U.S. response to the coronavirus outbreak.
  
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- From an Expert at Dornsife: Commonly Asked Questions About the Coronavirus
  
  February 29, 2020
  
  Epidemiologist Michael LeVasseur, PhD, MPH, gives a brief perspective on the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
  
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