2016

- Healthy Eating Gets No Boost After Corner Store Interventions, Drexel Study Finds
  
  May 16, 2016
  
  While many government, community and private interventions look at local corner and convenience stores as prime areas to stoke healthy eating, a Drexel study found that even two years after such an intervention took place, attitudes and purchasing habits didn’t change.
  
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- Epidemiology and Biostatistics Chair Receives Alumni Award from University of Iowa
  
  May 13, 2016
  
  The University of Iowa College of Public Health awarded one of it’s 2016 Outstanding Alumni Awards to Leslie McClure, PhD, MS, who earned a master of science in preventive medicine and environmental health, and is now professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health.
  
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- Intergenerational Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Food Insecurity
  
  May 12, 2016
  
  New research from Drexel University’s Center for Hunger-Free Communities has added evidence on the relationship between food insecurity and adverse child experiences (ACEs).
  
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- Drexel Doctoral Student to Present Disparities Research at International Developmental Disabilities Conference
  
  May 12, 2016
  
  Evelyn Arana, a fourth-year doctoral candidate in Community Health and Prevention, will present on "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mammography Utilization Among Women with Intellectual Disabilities in Philadelphia" in Melbourne, Australia this August.
  
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- Achieving Health Equity: Tools for a National Conversation on Racism
  
  May 11, 2016
  
  Many students of public health are familiar with The Gardener’s Tale, the classic and widely taught allegorical framework describing the levels of racism. Published in 2000, its author, Camara Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, has continued to build on the analogy she created 16 years ago – and also has created new allegories to enable people to talk about racism (not “race, but racism” she emphasizes). It is a scourge that, she says, threatens not only the well-being and self-esteem of its victims, but also undermines productivity and future of the nation.
  
  Jones took the podium in the Stein Auditorium at Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health on May 9 to deliver the 2016 Mann Health and Human Rights Memorial Lecture. The lecture is named for founding dean Jonathan Mann, who established the school’s commitment to health as a human right – a value that was interwoven through Jones’s presentation.
  
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- Drexel’s National Autism Indicators Report: More Than Half Leave Vocational Rehabilitation with Jobs, But Most Earn Wages Below Poverty Line
  
  May 03, 2016
  
  In the second edition of the annual A.J. Drexel Autism Institute’s annual National Autism Indicators Report series, researchers looked at Vocational Rehabilitation, a federally-funded employment program, administered by each state, for people with disabilities. They found that adults with autism are increasingly applying for services, but most are getting jobs that pay well below the poverty line.
  
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- Anthony Iton: Building Healthy Communities by Tackling Social Determinants
  
  May 03, 2016
  
  At the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative Distinguished Speaker Series on April 19, Anthony Iton, MD, JD, MPH, took attendees through his analysis of the reasons and remedies for health inequity, and introduced the audience to his work on the California Endowment's Building Healthy Communities initiative: a $1 billion, 10-year project that aims to improve health status in 14 California counties, by dedicating its resources exclusively to addressing social determinants rather than paying for health care.
  
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- Dornsife Students, Alumnus Win Research and Training Awards
  
  April 22, 2016
  
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- Preventing Urban Environmental Health Issues: Q&A with Environmental and Occupational Health Chair Jerry Fagliano
  
  April 22, 2016
  
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- A.J. Drexel Autism Institute’s Report Cited as ‘Influential’ By Federal Autism Committee
  
  April 20, 2016
  
  The National Autism Indicators Report was selected by the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee as one of the most influential pieces of research of 2015.
  
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