2016

- Drexel Researchers Offer Approaches to Infuse Mental Health Research into Policy through Legislators
  
  July 27, 2016
  
  Legislators at state and federal levels could improve the architecture of the US mental health system through budgetary and regulatory decisions if they had more evidence-based research to draw from.
  
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- FEMA-Funded Fellows Spend Summer Interrogating Fire Service Safety Data
  
  July 27, 2016
  
  Seven students and alumni are taking part in Dornsife's inaugural Fire service Injury Research, Epidemiology and Evaluation (FIRE) fellowship, supported by the FEMA Assistance to Fire Grants R&D program.
  
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- Photo Exhibit at African American Museum Will Speak the Truth about Poverty
  
  July 22, 2016
  
  As Democratic National Convention visitors come to Philadelphia, Witnesses to Hunger at Drexel University will unmask the truth of American poverty through photography and personal testimonies in an exhibit at the African American Museum.
  
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- Drexel Dean Co-Authors New Report: Possible to Account for Disadvantaged Populations in Medicare’s Value-Based Payment Programs and Improve Payment Status Quo
  
  July 22, 2016
  
  A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine says that Medicare’s value-based payment programs could take into account social risk factors – such as low socio-economic position, residence in disadvantaged neighborhoods, or race and ethnicity – but any proposal to do so will entail both advantages and disadvantages that need to be carefully considered.
  
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- Q+A: Expanding Buprenorphine Rxs - Can it Help With the Opioid Epidemic?
  
  July 21, 2016
  
  As part of a multi-pronged effort to address the growing opioid addiction epidemic in the United States, the Department of Health and Human Services announced last week that it would make one treatment medication more accessible.
  
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- Soft Drink, Soft Price: Soda Prices Found Significantly Lower Than Healthy Alternative Milk
  
  July 18, 2016
  
  Drexel University researchers found a huge disparity between the price of soda, which is linked to the prevalence of health issues like diabetes, and milk — a difference in price that could be narrowed by taxes like the one on sugary drinks recently approved in Philadelphia.
  
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- 2015 Alumna Transitions from AJ Drexel Autism Institute to NIH Office of Autism Research Coordination
  
  July 12, 2016
  
  Julianna Rava, MPH ’15, is now a health services policy analyst at the NIH in the Office of Autism Research Coordination and recently assisted in writing the Presidential Proclamation on autism. Julianna described the connections she made working at the AJ Drexel Autism Institute during her time at Dornsife SPH, and what she’s working on next.
  
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- Drexel Experts Available to Comment on Democratic National Convention
  
  July 11, 2016
  
  As Philadelphia prepares to host what is likely to be one of the largest and most historically significant Democratic National Conventions, Drexel experts are available to comment on issues ranging from the logistics of putting together the massive gathering and its historical significance, as well as addressing the biggest political issues that will face presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton.
  
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- Dornsife Faculty Teach Globally This Summer
  
  June 27, 2016
  
  As many Dornsife students and faculty head to SeneGambia and Cuba in the Global Health summer courses this summer, other Dornsife faculty are heading to countries from Mongolia to Israel for international teaching engagements.
  
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- Q+A: CDC Recommends Against Nasal Flu Vaccine, Back to Needles
  
  June 23, 2016
  
  Those looking to avoid the needle during this year’s flu season may be out of luck. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has recommended against the use of FluMist, a nasal mist influenza vaccine.
  
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