Greg Richter

News Manager, University Communications

Greg Richter is the news manager who covers Medicine, Public Health, Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems. He graduated from Rowan University, where he also worked in its Office of Media and Public Relations. Since then, he has lived in Philadelphia for eight years and worked in Penn Medicine’s Office of Communications, most recently as a senior medical communications officer. Follow him on twitter @DrexelGreg.

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Drexel Researchers Explore Role of Environmental Influences on Autism as Part of Multi-Million Dollar NIH Effort

Oct 17, 2025

As screening and understanding of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) grows, a new national initiative tapping Drexel expertise aims to yield new insights for many of the 1 in 45 adults and 1 in 35 children in the United States living with autism. The role that both genetic factors, as well as environmental influences, play in development of autism are the focus of a new $50 million Autism Data Science Initiative (ADSI) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Drexel researchers with expertise studying the intersection of these exposures will be among those leading the new effort.

When Climate Disasters Hit, They Often Leave Long-term Health Care Access Shortages, Drexel Study Finds

May 29, 2025

Immediate recovery efforts receive the most attention after severe natural disasters, yet new data from researchers at Drexel University and the University of Maryland suggests these climate events often also leave a critical long-term — and often unaddressed — problem in declines in access to health care.

Drexel Researchers Develop New DNA Test for Personalized Treatment of Bacterial Vaginosis

Mar 28, 2025

Drexel researchers have developed a simple DNA PCR-based lab test — built on a more detailed genetic analysis of the main group of bacterial organisms that cause bacterial vaginosis — to help clinicians prescribe the right medicine for each patient.

Men and Residents of Higher Crime Areas See Greater Benefit from Community Parks, in Reduction of Deaths from Heart Disease

Dec 19, 2024

There’s a well-established link between greenspace and health benefits, including lower rates of heart disease risk factors, such as high blood pressure and diabetes. Now, according to a recently published study, rates of deaths from heart disease — especially among men — are lower in neighborhoods with more greenspace. The findings, from researchers at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health, were recently published in the journal Health and Place.

Can Doctors Predict The Severity of COVID-19 in Their Patients?

Jun 12, 2023

Scientists have now made substantial progress in predicting the path that COVID-19 will take in patients, finding sets of biological features that are associated with the course and severity of COVID-19. The findings were recently published in Cell Reports Medicine by researchers from Drexel University’s College of Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Yale, and other institutions nationwide.

Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Food Insecurity and Inability to Pay Rent Hit Immigrant Families Hardest

Apr 21, 2023

Although families with immigrant mothers experienced higher rates of food insecurity and inability to pay rent during the pandemic than other groups, they reported less participation in economic impact payments (EIP) in the form of stimulus checks and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – two programs designed to provide stopgap financial support, according to a new study in JAMA Health Forum from researchers at the Dornsife School of Public Health and Children’s HealthWatch.

Why Do mRNA Vaccines Cause Strongest Immune Response in Younger Individuals? Lipid Nanoparticles Offer Some Answers.

Mar 31, 2023

Although the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna are safe and effective at preventing severe illness in adults and children, including immunocompromised individuals, researchers have noticed that these shots continue to be the most efficient and effective in younger individuals than in older adults.

Proactive Policing May Contribute to the Racial Gap in Preterm Births

Feb 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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Drexel Public Health Researchers Lead $3.7 Million Study Looking at Impact of Federal Housing Assistance on Health Care for Chronic Conditions

Nov 7 2025

Through a new $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Nursing Research, the researchers will examine how financial support from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) affects access and use of medical treatments, particularly for adults managing chronic health issues.

Drexel Researchers Gain New Insights from Malaria-Causing Parasite That May Support Development of Future Antimalarial Drugs

Oct 20 2025

Scientists from Drexel University’s College of Medicine and Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center have uncovered a crucial structural feature of a key malaria drug target, known as PfATP4, and discovered a previously unknown binding partner that could reshape antimalarial drug design.

Drexel Researchers Explore Role of Environmental Influences on Autism as Part of Multi-Million Dollar NIH Effort

Oct 17 2025

Nationwide Study Led by Drexel Researchers Develops Most Effective Predictor of Severe COVID-19

Aug 26 2025

Amid an uncertain time for the future of COVID-19, and whether new variants will appear, a recently published prediction formula — built using data from 1,102 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in 20 hospitals nationwide — now gives a better estimation about an individual’s projected disease outlook and could help the research community understand why some individuals have a level of natural immunity and why others are more susceptible to severe infection.

When Climate Disasters Hit, They Often Leave Long-term Health Care Access Shortages, Drexel Study Finds

May 29 2025

Newborns Living Near Trees Tend to Be Healthier. New Data Suggests It’s Not Because Healthier People Reside Near Parks.

Apr 23 2025

The link between proximity to greenspace — including trees and parks— and healthy birth outcomes is well established. Now new data from researchers at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health adds to our understanding of these health benefits, accounting for other factors that may influence this link, such as education, income and body mass index, but also taking the body of knowledge a step further by exploring the effect of residing near newly planted trees.

New Data Finds Health Care Organizations May Not Be Doing Enough to Connect Patients with Housing Services When They’re Needed Most.

Apr 14 2025

Despite a 5-year-old law that requires hospitals in California to connect unhoused patients with social services, new data on patients in a large California-based health care system suggests that hospitals in the state are seldom making the connections to support their unhoused patients.

Drexel Researchers Develop New DNA Test for Personalized Treatment of Bacterial Vaginosis

Mar 28 2025

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