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- Population Health Speaker Series Explores the Future of Public Health
  
  March 16, 2023
  
  The 2022-23 academic year's Population Health Spotlight Series explored public health at a crossroads and discussed possible new directions.
  
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- Students Participate in Fourth Annual Public Health Case Competition at Dornsife
  
  February 23, 2023
  
  Students in five interdisciplinary teams created and presented solutions to tackling food insecurity in Philadelphia.
  
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- Proactive Policing May Contribute to the Racial Gap in Preterm Births
  
  February 15, 2023
  
  A recent study in the journal of the American Public Health Association looked at proactive policing and preterm birth rates in New Orleans.
  
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- Drexel Research on Structural Racism and Public Health Highlighted
  
  January 30, 2023
  
  A special edition of the American Journal of Public Health featured papers by multiple researchers at the Dornsife School of Public Health on structural racism and practices that need changing.
  
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- Ubuntu Center Researchers Participate in COP27 in Egypt and ABRASCO Meeting in Brazil
  
  January 24, 2023
  
  Researchers from The Ubuntu Center at Dornsife recently traveled abroad for the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) and the Brazilian Association of Collective Health (ABRASCO) 13th National Congress.
  
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- Fall Rate Nearly 50% Among Older Americans with Dementia
  
  January 12, 2023
  
  Research from Drexel found that targeting specific fall-risk factors could improve fall screening and prevention strategies.
  
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- Growing Partnership with QTBIPOC Radical Social Justice Organization
  
  January 06, 2023
  
  New partnership with Galaei, a Queer and Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (QTBIPOC) radical social justice organization.
  
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- Winter ‘Tripledemic’ Highlights the Need to Stay at Home When Sick—and the Need for Paid Sick Leave to Make It Possible
  
  January 06, 2023
  
  Policymakers should support paid sick leave policies to prevent the spread of infectious disease, say Dornsife researchers in a paper published in Health Affairs.
  
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- Advancing Anti-racism Evidence and Solutions to Transform the Health of Black Communities
  
  December 13, 2022
  
  In the latest Lancet publication, researchers from The Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements and Population Health Equity authored a special commentary and were featured in a profile piece.
  
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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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