2018

- Dornsife School of Public Health Wins Inaugural Harrison Spencer Community Service Award
  
  February 22, 2018
  
  The award recognizes the Dornsife School of Public Health for its extensive work in Philadelphia.
  
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- Donuts to Go from the EAT Café for Fat Tuesday
  
  February 07, 2018
  
  The EAT Café is offering two traditional Fat Tuesday donuts, fasnachts and calas, as a fundraiser to support its mission.
  
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- Partnership with the Libraries Expands Public Health Professionals’ Toolkit: Q/A with Nancy Epstein, MPH, MAHL
  
  February 02, 2018
  
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- Eagles Autism Challenge: Passion for Helping Fuels Drexel Staff Member’s Participation
  
  January 30, 2018
  
  Biking in the Eagles Autism Challenge is just the latest step in a lifetime of helping the neurodiverse for the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute’s Jackie Abrams.
  
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- Trauma Support for Welfare Recipients Helps Them Earn More, Study Shows
  
  January 24, 2018
  
  Research shows that addressing Welfare recipients’ past and current trauma help them earn more at their jobs — providing hope for an exit from the program.
  
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- Drinking, DUI Crashes Down Among Pennsylvania Youth, State Workgroup Says
  
  January 24, 2018
  
  The Pennsylvania State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup released a brief that shows drinking is down in the state’s youth, but the information it presents could serve as a baseline as liquor licensing laws are relaxed.
  
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- Garrett Devenney, MPH '18, Wins David A. Winston Award
  
  January 23, 2018
  
  Beating a highly-competitive field of 70 students from universities around the country, Garrett Devenney, MPH ’18, a Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health student, studying in the school’s department of Health Management and Policy, was awarded one of two 2018 David A. Winston Health Policy Fellowships.
  
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- Restaurant, Bar Smoking Bans Impact Smoking Behaviors, Especially for the Highly Educated
  
  January 11, 2018
  
  Smoking bans in restaurants and bars are especially effective among those with college degrees, but also were associated with higher quit attempts by people with low incomes, according to a new Drexel University study.
  
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- Mexican Migrant Health Access Lower After U.S. Border Crossing — And Even When They Return to Mexico
  
  January 10, 2018
  
  Immigrants and migrants from Mexico had worse access to health care and insurance after they crossed the border into the U.S. — and it remained bad when they returned to Mexico again.
  
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- Drexel Helps to Establish the Region's First Federal Statistical Research Data Center to Gain Access to Census Data
  
  January 09, 2018
  
  Researchers from around the city, who are studying public policy and the economy, will have access to some of the nation’s highest quality Census data this coming cycle, thanks to a new federal research center.
  
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