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- Energy Insecurity in New York City and America with Dr. Diana Hernández
  
  May 22, 2025
  
  On May 7th, the UHC was honored to host Dr. Diana Hernandez, Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University. Her foundational research on energy insecurity - defined as the inability to adequately meet household energy needs - has identified sociodemographic disparities, adverse consequences and promising interventions toward energy equity and justice.
  
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- Newly Released Health Data for Big U.S. Cities
  
  May 07, 2025
  
  In partnership with the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative (UHC) has released new data on the Big Cities Health Inventory (BCHI) data platform. The data platform includes more than 200,000 data points for over 125 metrics for the member cities of the BCHC. The platform now includes all available data for all metrics spanning years 2010 – 2023.
  
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- The Return of the Urban Health Symposium: What’s to Come
  
  May 06, 2025
  
  For the first time in six years, one of the Urban Health Collaborative (UHC)’s signature events, the Urban Health Symposium, gathers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – happening this year from September 4th-5th. The title of the 2025 Symposium, “Healthy Cities for the Next Decade: A Call to Action,” shapes the spirit and goals of the event – collaboration and proactivity, even through times of uncertainty.
  
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- Recap: The 3rd Annual Symposium for Sexual and Gender Minority Health
  
  May 02, 2025
  
  On April 16th, the Queer Inclusion, Equity, Rights, and Health (QuIEHR) Working Group hosted the 3rd Annual Symposium on Sexual and Gender Minority Health. We hoped the symposium would serve as both a space for reflection and a rallying point, grounded in Philadelphia’s deep-rooted legacy of LGBTQ+ advocacy and positioning the city as a powerful site of ongoing resilience and collective mobilization.
  
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- Three Ways of Looking at Black/White Mortality Disparities in the U.S. with Dr. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
  
  April 10, 2025
  
  On March 19th, the UHC was honored to host Dr. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, a sociologist and demographer at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Wrigley-Field studies racial inequality in mortality in the historical and contemporary United States, specializing in finding comparisons and metrics that illuminate the human meaning of mortality disparities.
  
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- Hot Topics: Guaranteed Income During and After Pregnancy
  
  April 07, 2025
  
  The latest in the UHC Policy Core's blog series "Hot Topics in Urban Policy and Health" highlights ways that Tuesday's elections could significantly shape public health and health outcomes.
  
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- Unpacking The Structural Determinants of Health with Dr. Julia Lynch
  
  February 18, 2025
  
  On January 15th, the UHC was honored to host Dr. Julia Lynch, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Co-Director of the Lauder Institute at Penn’s Wharton School of Business.
  
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- Introducing the 2020 to 2010 Census Tract Crosswalk
  
  February 10, 2025
  
  The Urban Health Collaborative has released a valuable new dataset for researchers who use census data.
  
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- Journal of Urban Health Announces Drexel's Ana Diez Roux and Usama Bilal as Co-Editors-in-Chief
  
  February 04, 2025
  
  The Urban Health Collaborative's Director and Co-Director take on the editorship during a time of many challenges to health in cities all over the world.
  
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- Urban Health Collaborative Awards Two New Working Group Proposals
  
  February 03, 2025
  
  The projects will engage in diverse interdisciplinary and scholarly activities to promote mental health equity and health equity for sexual and gender minorities.
  
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