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- Drexel Names New Center on Racism and Health, Center Director
 
 May 20, 2021
 
 Drexel University will officially establish and name a new center on racism and health as The Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements and Population Health Equity. The Center was made possible through a generous gift from philanthropists Dana and David Dornsife to the School earlier this academic year. Opening in Fall 2021 and housed in the University’s <a href="/dornsife/">Dornsife School of Public Health</a>, the Center will be led by inaugural director <a href="/dornsife/academics/faculty/Sharrelle-Barber/">Sharrelle Barber</a>, ScD, MPH, an assistant professor at Dornsife.
 
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- Drexel Names New Center on Racism and Health, Center Director
 
 May 20, 2021
 
 Drexel University officially names new center on racism and health as The Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements and Population Health Equity which is housed in the Dornsife School of Public Health and led by inaugural director Sharrelle Barber.
 
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- Q+A: How Can We Persuade Organ Donors to Vaccinate Against COVID-19?
 
 May 17, 2021
 
 As COVID-19 vaccines become increasingly available in the United States, public health experts are making efforts to address vaccine hesitancy, especially among healthy adults that were not prioritized for vaccines when they first became available.
 
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- 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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