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Office of Community Health and Inclusive Excellence

The Office of Community Health and Inclusive Excellence builds upon the College’s mission to advance community service, education, clinical care and research, while addressing the needs and health disparities of our local neighborhoods. The office incorporates the functions of the former Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the former Office of Community Health & Health Equity, to better align and strengthen the College’s resources to address inclusivity across missions.

The Office of Community Health and Inclusive Excellence supports and bolsters, partnerships, collaborations and programs within the University and among Philadelphia community sites and stakeholders to achieve the best health outcomes through the promotion of health and wellness.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT

Drexel Medicine students at a community health event info table.

*The Uplift Center for Grieving Children offers free grief groups that are led by master's degree level clinicians who provide trauma-responsive and healing-centered support. Groups allow youth and families to express their grief through non-judgmental discussions, creative activities, grounding techniques and other forms of therapeutic support. All grief services are free for youth and families, regardless of immigration status, and do not require insurance.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN COMMUNITY HEALTH

Drexel Medicine student teaching children about anatomy.
  • Support anti-racist curricula
  • Build community partnerships to support service-learning opportunities and impact community
  • Integrate longitudinal community engagement and health equity in pre-clinical and clinical curricula
  • Interprofessional community engagement and courses
  • Established partnerships with local Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) to support pre-clinical and clinical rotational and community engagement opportunities
  • Community engagement partnered with residency training programs in primary care
  • Community Dimensions in Medicine - Impacts of social pandemics on vulnerable populations

CLINICAL PRACTICE FOR EXCELLENCE IN CARE OF UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS

Drexel Medicine student providing medical screenings.

RESEARCH TO PROMOTE HEALTH EQUITY

  • Office of Health Equity Research and Innovation
  • Supporting students, faculty and staff in community-based participatory and educational research to promote health equity
  • "Teaching at the Convergence of Pandemics and Historically Excluded Patient Populations: The Challenges, and Importance, of Culturally Responsive Communication." published in Teaching and learning in medicine 2023
  • "PDPH Funded Drexel Mobile COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination," presented at Discovery Day 2022
  • "Interprofessional URiM Faculty and Trainees at Drexel Mobile COVID-19 Unit," presented at AAMC 2022
  • "Microgreens Grow Kit – Increasing Nutritional Awareness," published in Transformative Medicine 2022
  • Opioid Overdose Awareness and Reversal (interschool and community) – Published in Substance Use & Misuse 2021, 2022
  • "Longitudinal Community Engagement Curriculum in Family Medicine Residency," presented at STFM 2020

 
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