2021

- The Pandemic Will End, but We’re Probably Stuck With the Coronavirus
  
  April 22, 2021
  
  Two Dornsife epidemiologists think that while the pandemic will end, the novel coronavirus may never be eradicated. But there is hope.
  
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- 2021 Global Research Symposium: International Solutions for A Global Crisis
  
  April 20, 2021
  
  The University’s “Climate Year: Global Research Symposium” brought together Drexel faculty and international partners to present and discuss ways of studying, addressing and combatting climate change.
  
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- Autism Acceptance Month: Prenatal and Environmental Risk Factor Expert
  
  April 19, 2021
  
  For April's Autism Awareness Month, Drexel News Blog highlighted Kristen Lyall, ScD, and Diana Schendel, PhD, from the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute.
  
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- Celebrating National Public Health Week 2021
  
  April 12, 2021
  
  For the second time since the pandemic began, the Dornsife School of Public Health community celebrated National Public Health Week from home.
  
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- Stress from Work and Social Interactions Put Women at Higher Risk of Coronary Heart Disease, Drexel Study Suggests
  
  April 09, 2021
  
  Psychosocial stress – typically resulting from difficulty coping with challenging environments – may work synergistically to put women at significantly higher risk of developing coronary heart disease, according to a study by researchers at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health, recently published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
  
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- Drexel Doctoral Student Sparks Action, Seeks Community Support to Save the Sun Building
 
 March 31, 2021
 
 This month and with more donations needed, Samantha Rivera Joseph, a PhD student in the Dornsife School of Public Health, hopes to buy the historic building in her Mt. Airy neighborhood and convert it into a community meeting space with crowdsourced funds.
 
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- Your Neighborhood May Influence Your COVID-19 Risk, Drexel Study Suggests
 
 March 29, 2021
 
 Markers of the pandemic’s impact – testing rates, positivity ratio (cases among total tests), case rates by overall population and deaths – are clustered in neighborhoods, with low-income and predominantly minority communities experiencing worse outcomes than wealthier and predominantly white neighborhoods. The findings, part of the first research to look at comprehensive neighborhood-level data from March through September 2020 from three large U.S. cities – Chicago, New York and Philadelphia – were published today in Annals of Internal Medicine by researchers from Drexel University’s <a href="https://drexel.edu/dornsife/">Dornsife School of Public Health</a>.
 
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- New Medical Cannabis Research Center at Drexel Supports Groundbreaking Research Partnership
 
 March 23, 2021
 
 The University now has the capacity, and an external partnership with a medical cannabis dispensary, to conduct evidence-based research on the health effects of medical cannabis.
 
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- How Should We Support Living Organ Donors During a Worldwide Pandemic?
 
 March 15, 2021
 
 Researchers from Drexel University's College of Medicine and Dornsife School of Public Health posed questions to prior and prospective organ donors about risk tolerance due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
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- Autism Online: A Review of How Autistic People Communicate Virtually
 
 March 15, 2021
 
 Researchers from the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute collected and reviewed published research about how autistic youth and adults use the internet to communicate and provide a framework for understanding contributions, gaps and opportunities in online autistic communities. 
 
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