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2015

- Striking 'Gold' with Public Health Entertainment-Education
  
  April 30, 2015
  
  Amy Henderson Riley, a doctoral student in the School of Public Health, wants to change the way the public learns about health. Right now, she's researching whether love triangles and radio drama on a program called "Black Gold" helps inform the people of Mozambique about maternal and child health.
  
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- Autism Young Adult Transition Indicators Report
  
  April 21, 2015
  
  Autism doesn't end at adulthood — yet most public awareness, public policy and research on autism focus on children. A new national report from the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute answers questions about the experiences and outcomes of young adults on the spectrum.
  
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- Fulbright Recipient
  
  April 17, 2015
  
  Carmen Cronin, MPH ’14, has been selected for a 2015-16 Fulbright U.S. Student Award to conduct research on menstrual health with adolescent girls in Uganda. Cronin is the second Fulbright recipient from the School of Public Health and the 32nd recipient in Drexel University history.
  
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- Do Health Awareness Days Actually Promote Health?
  
  April 16, 2015
  
  Public health researchers contend that health awareness days have not been held to an appropriate level of scrutiny given the scale at which they have been embraced,in a peer-reviewed commentary in the American Journal of Public Health.
  
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- Simulation to Spur Interdisciplinary Learning in Health Care
  
  March 25, 2015
  
  Two Drexel graduate students are doing their best to prompt the type of interdisciplinary learning they know they’ll need once they leave school.
  
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- Which Natural Experiments Reduce Obesity?
  
  March 20, 2015
  
  Drexel public health researchers published a review of the state of the science on which policy and infrastructure changes have a real impact on obesity prevention.
  
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- Drexel Program Helping Violence Victims to Expand Across Philadelphia Hospitals
  
  February 19, 2015
  
  In Philadelphia, Healing Hurt People, a Drexel trauma-informed, hospital-based violence intervention program is expanding at a city-wide level to widen the opportunity of preventing future injuries as a result of violence instead of just treating them.
  
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- 7 Lessons for Health Leaders
  
  February 18, 2015
  
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- Drexel Research Team Connects Urban Design to Public Health
  
  February 10, 2015
  
  Faculty in design and public health at Drexel are working together with community-based projects in West Philadelphia. Their projects test the idea that aspects of natural systems can be woven into urban design to improve health.
  
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- Children's Hunger Born From Mothers' Trauma
  
  February 03, 2015
  
  A new Drexel public health study shows that trauma and chronic stress are a largely overlooked part of the picture of why one in five American households with young children live with food insecurity.
  
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