2022

- Welcoming New Students, Staff and Faculty to Dornsife
  
  September 16, 2022
  
  A long-standing tradition at the School, new students, faculty, and professional staff were officially welcomed to the Dornsife community at the annual Pinning Ceremony.
  
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- How Police Departments and Community Partners Are Coordinating Care for Autistic Youth in Crisis
  
  September 13, 2022
  
  Autistic youth experiencing mental health crises face higher risks and are more likely to have negative interactions with police. To identify how police departments and other non-police community partners – like school districts and community crisis centers – are supporting autistic youth in suicidal crisis, researchers from Drexel University’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute aimed to develop and test a new county-level social network measure of care coordination.
  
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- New Faculty With Wide Range of Public Health Expertise Join Dornsife This Academic Year
  
  September 12, 2022
  
  Dornsife welcomes 15 new faculty members in the 2022-2023 academic year. Permeating their work is a focus on understanding and intervening on systemic racism and inequality as drivers of health.
  
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- The A.J. Drexel Autism Institute Awarded $10 Million for Advancing Equitable Strategies and Reducing Barriers for Autistic Individuals of All Ages
  
  September 09, 2022
  
  Drexel University’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute was awarded a 5-year, $10 million Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) award from the National Institutes of Health to understand and reduce barriers to good health and health care access for people with autism. The project titled “Public Health and Autism Science advancing Equitable Strategies across the life course” (PHASES) will employ a public health research framework to examine health determinants, health services delivery and health inequity – especially in under-represented diverse populations – and the impact of these forces on autistic people’s health outcomes.
  
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- A.J. Drexel Autism Institute Awarded $2.5 Million Grant for Research to Support Healthy and Equitable Life Outcomes for Autistic Youth and Young Adults
  
  September 08, 2022
  
  Drexel University’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute recently received a $2.5 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to fund the Institute’s Autism Transitions Research Project for an additional five years to address a “services cliff” that many transition-age autistic youth face.
  
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- New Primary Care Finder Tool in Philadelphia
  
  August 29, 2022
  
  Dornsife faculty collaborate with the local health department to ensure the needs of Latino and other diverse communities in Philadelphia are met when using a new primary care finder tool.
  
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- Q+A: Can Addressing Childhood Trauma Help Prevent PTSD Among Violence Victims?
  
  August 15, 2022
  
  As many communities across the country struggle with rising violence, a team of researchers from the Dornsife School of Public Health took a unique approach to better understand the experiences of victims of urban violence.
  
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- The Future of Careers in Infectious Disease
  
  August 11, 2022
  
  As the field of infection prevention faces staffing shortages, Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health is training the next generation of public health and health care practitioners who need to prevent infectious diseases in a variety of settings.
  
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- Local High School Students Explore Public Health at 2022 Dornsife Summer Institute
  
  August 02, 2022
  
  Dornsife's second annual Public Health Summer Institute helps ambitious junior and senior high school students explore public health careers.
  
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- Council on Black Health Launches Youth-led Movement Counteracting Unhealthy Food Marketing
  
  July 20, 2022
  
  A new initiative calls for action to make healthier food and beverage options more available and promoted in Black communities.
  
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