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Office of Community Health and Inclusive Excellence

Drexel Medicine students at a community health event info table.

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. We aim to address health disparities, support underserved communities, and promote inclusion and belonging across our missions of education, clinical practice, research and community service. Learn more.

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. Contact us.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT

  • 125+ community partners serving Berks County and Greater Philadelphia
  • 34 community health engagements events in 2025
  • 833 people served in 2025

OUR PARTNERS

Drexel Medicine student teaching children about anatomy.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN COMMUNITY HEALTH

  • 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
  • "The Implementation of Indoor Urban Gardening: A Microgreens Pilot Study in a University Setting." published in Transformative Medicine 2025
  • "Listening and Responding to Community Voices — The Community Wellness HUB." published in the New England Journal of Medicine
  • "Motivations and Barriers of Student Volunteer Engagement." published in the Journal of Student-Run Free Clinics and Projects 2025
  • "Temporal Reinforcement of Naloxone Training Results in Significant Retention of Anti-bias and Overdose-Response Knowledge." published in Cureus 2023
  • "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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