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- UHC Practica: MPH Students Tackle Urban Health Challenges Through Experiential Learning
  
  October 25, 2016
  
  Four MPH students recently completed practicums with funding support from the Urban Health Collaborative, an initiative of the Dornsife School of Public Health. As the inaugural cohort of UHC funded practicums, their wide-ranging work illustrates the breadth and depth of public health. The students engaged on the local, regional, and national levels with topics including active transportation, air pollution, encouraging policy related activities, and early childhood learning.
  
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- 2013 MPH Alumnus Starts U.S. Presidential Management Fellowship at CDC After Completing Law School
  
  October 25, 2016
  
  Kory Trott has been busy since graduating with his MPH in 2013. Following a compelling public health law course he took as part of his concentration in Health Management and Policy, Trott went on to graduate with his JD from the University of Wisconsin in 2015. Now he’s using both degrees to make a positive impact on public health policy.
  
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- MPH Student Evaluates Gaps in NIH Sexual and Gender Minority Research Portfolio for Summer Health Management and Policy Fellowship
  
  October 25, 2016
  
  Jibri Douglas, MPH Health Management and Policy ’17, spent her summer researching the relationship between the National Institutes of Health and the sexual and gender minority (SGM/LGBT) community. A Health Management and Policy summer fellowship provided the opportunity for Douglas to take on a self-directed project looking at research on sexual and gender minority health.
  
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- Welcoming Everyone to the Table: Philadelphia’s First Pay-What-You-Can Restaurant To Open
  
  October 20, 2016
  
  In Philadelphia, Drexel University, the Vetri Community Partnership, Giant Food Stores and other community partners are teaming to open the city’s first pay-what-you-can restaurant.
  
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- Vision, Tragedy, and Triumph
  
  October 19, 2016
  
  If ever a fairy tale can come true, the 20-year history of Philadelphia’s first public health school shows how. What is today the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University began as a glimmer in the eyes of a few determined people. They gave shape to their bold vision, only to meet tragedy and thethreat of dissolution – and then to emerge triumphant.
  
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- After Privatization, Link Found Between New Liquor Establishments, Violence
  
  October 18, 2016
  
  A team led by a Drexel University professor found that areas of Seattle where new establishments with alcohol were added following Washington state’s privatization efforts saw a significant increase in violent assaults.
  
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- Drexel Researcher Receives Career Development Award to Implement Program to Reduce HIV Transmission Among Disproportionally Vulnerable Group
  
  October 12, 2016
  
  Alexis Roth, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of Community Health and Prevention in the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University, has received the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association’s Career Development Award. The $100,000 grant runs from October 2016 through September 2018 and was announced at the National STD Prevention Conference in Atlanta.
  
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- Drexel Releases Emergency Planning Resources to Help Medical Practices Meet New Federal Regulation
  
  October 05, 2016
  
  To help health care providers meet a new federal emergency preparedness rule, Drexel University’s Center for Public Health Readiness and Communication has released a set of emergency planning resources intended specifically for medical practices and health care facilities.
  
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- Prevention Resources are Inadequate in Pennsylvania Counties with High Overdose Rates, New Statewide Data Brief Shows
  
  October 05, 2016
  
  Prescription drug overdose prevention efforts across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are lacking in counties with high overdose rates, according to a new report released by Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health researchers as part of a statewide workgroup studying prescription drug misuses and abuse prevention initiatives.
  
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- Dornsife SPH Welcomes Eight New Faculty
  
  September 30, 2016
  
  New faculty and the 20^th incoming class of students were celebrated and received their school pins at Dornsife’s annual welcoming ceremony on September 15. The incoming professors bring new expertise in structural determinants of health, occupational health exposures, intimate partner violence, and health disparities, as well as in novel statistical, geo-spatial and econometric techniques.
  
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