2023

- Observing National Public Health Week 2023
  
  April 12, 2023
  
  The Dornsife community observed National Public Health Week by volunteering, hosting student-led events on relevant public health topics and facilitating a training on Narcan use.
  
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- How Drexel Students Can Use the ARC, Drexel’s New Academic Resource Center
  
  April 10, 2023
  
  The Korman Center is becoming the hub of on-campus academic support services for students and a central place to get help for STEM classes, writing projects and so much more.
  
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- Marla Gold to Retire as Senior Vice Provost for Community Health and Chief Wellness Officer
  
  March 23, 2023
  
  Marla J. Gold, MD, will be concluding her distinguished service of more than three decades when she retires from Drexel at the end of the academic year on June 30, 2023.
  
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- Population Health Speaker Series Explores the Future of Public Health
  
  March 16, 2023
  
  The 2022-23 academic year's Population Health Spotlight Series explored public health at a crossroads and discussed possible new directions.
  
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- Latest National Autism Indicators Report Explores Autistic Individuals’ Use of Medicaid Across the Lifespan
  
  March 14, 2023
  
  In the latest edition of the National Autism Indicators Report series, researchers at Drexel University’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute explore how autistic individuals use Medicaid and how their service use changes across the lifespan – from infants to older adults – using data from the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) from 2008-2016.
  
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- Autistic Adolescents are More Likely to Leave Medicaid as They Enter Adulthood in States Without Medicaid Waivers
  
  March 13, 2023
  
  Recently published in JAMA Network Open, researchers from the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute at Drexel University examined whether state-level waivers were associated with reduced risk of Medicaid disenrollment among autistic transition-age youth.
  
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- Faculty Highlights: Recent Awards and Grants
  
  March 10, 2023
  
  Drexel professors were recognized for their academic and professional achievements
  
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- Students Participate in Fourth Annual Public Health Case Competition at Dornsife
  
  February 23, 2023
  
  Students in five interdisciplinary teams created and presented solutions to tackling food insecurity in Philadelphia.
  
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- A.J. Drexel Autism Institute Finds Strong Performance of Autism Screener When Used as Intended
  
  February 20, 2023
  
  Newly published in JAMA Pediatrics, a study by Andrea Wieckowski, PhD, Diana Robins, PhD and their co-authors systematically reviewed and analyzed factors that may lead to different performance estimates of the M-CHAT(-R/F) tests. the most commonly used autism-specific screening tool for young children.
  
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- Proactive Policing May Contribute to the Racial Gap in Preterm Births
  
  February 15, 2023
  
  Proactive policing, such as pedestrian and traffic stops, is a crime prevention tactic that relies on police officer discretion to stop and search individuals they consider suspicious. A recently published study in the journal of the American Public Health Association, looking at proactive policing and preterm birth rates in New Orleans, shows that Black residents living in neighborhoods experiencing high levels of proactive policing were about three times as likely to give birth preterm (before 37 weeks) as their white neighbors.
  
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