News

- The Urban Overdose Crisis Eased in 2023 – But Not for Black and Native American Communities
  
  August 26, 2025
  
  New data from 35 large cities that comprise the Big Cities Health Coalition suggest that — in the population as a whole — overdose rates were relatively stable in 2022 and 2023 after 12 years of exponential growth.
  
  Read More
- Interactive Dashboard Sheds Light on Characteristics Across Philadelphia City Council Districts
  
  August 04, 2025
  
  The tool is designed to provide data to inform decision-making in local communities – providing accessible, actionable insights into the health and well-being of Philadelphia residents.
  
  Read More
- Data for Action: How Urban Health Departments Use the Big Cities Health Coalition Data Platform
  
  July 30, 2025
  
  Epidemiologists and data managers from Philadelphia, Mecklenberg, San Antonio and Long Beach described using the platform to compare their city to other cities, fulfill data requests, and populate their own data dashboards.
  
  Read More
- Drexel Dornsife/UHC-Affiliated Researchers Co-Chaired and Led Major Study in Recent Lancet Commission
  
  July 09, 2025
  
  We’re pleased to share the news that UHC-Affiliated Researchers at the Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health Co-Chaired and led a major study in the new Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing! Alex Ezeh, PhD, Dornsife Professor of Global Health, co-chaired the Commission alongside Ali Groves, PhD, MHS, Associate Professor of Community Health and Prevention, and Dornsife alumna Luwam Gebrekristos, PhD, MPH, who were members of the Commission.
  
  Read More
- 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.
  
  Read More
- 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.
  
  Read More
- 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.
  
  Read More
- 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.
  
  Read More
- 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.
  
  Read More
- 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.
  
  Read More

Upcoming Events

There are currently no upcoming events.

More Events