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- Stark Racial Disparities in Vaccine Uptake and Flu-related Deaths in Big Cities
  
  November 14, 2023
  
  As seasonal flu rates rise, it is essential that flu prevention efforts reach people who are at the highest risk: young children and older adults aged 60+. Using data from the Big Cities Health Inventory, an open-source platform providing health metrics for the 35 large U.S. cities that comprise the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), we found stark racial disparities in flu vaccine uptake among urban residents.
  
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- Introducing The Drexel Climate Change and Urban Health Research Center
  
  November 07, 2023
  
  A multi-million dollar grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences will be used to establish the Drexel Climate Change and Urban Health Research Center (CCUH), which will support research to help protect the growing urban populations of the world from the adverse health and equity effects of climate change.
  
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- Stalled COVID-19 Booster Rollout Reveals New Hurdles for Vaccine Equity in Cities
  
  October 05, 2023
  
  The vaccine shortage led to the Philadelphia Department of Health asking low-risk residents to delay getting boosted to prioritize people at higher risk of COVID-19 complications. But will that be enough to ensure that the residents with the highest need get vaccinated? Drs. Alina Schnake-Mahl and Usama Bilal offer insight.
  
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- Urban Greenspace Can Reduce Mortality Inequalities Based on Poverty and Race in Philadelphia
  
  September 01, 2023
  
  A new paper from UHC researchers explores whether greenspace in Philadelphia has an equigenic effect – that is, the ability to promote health equity through the neighborhood environment. Their findings support the hypothesis that urban greenspace may reduce racialized or poverty-based inequities in mortality.
  
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- Dr. Mariana Lazo and Team Receive NIH Grant to Study Social Determinants and Racial/Ethnic Disparities of Fatty Liver Disease
  
  July 28, 2023
  
  UHC Associate Research Professor Dr. Mariana Lazo and her team have partnered with researchers from the Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA to provide new evidence about pathways between social determinants as well as the physical and social environments of communities and fatty liver disease risk.
  
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- Gun deaths In big cities surged during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic
  
  June 27, 2023
  
  In partnership with the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative created a new data brief and infographic using twelve years of gun death data from 35 big U.S. cities, showing a surge in gun deaths at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  
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- One Year After Dobbs, Half of U.S. States Ban or Restrict Abortion. None of Them Offer Paid Family Leave.
  
  June 22, 2023
  
  One year after the Supreme Court eliminated federal protections for abortion and allowed states to determine when — or if — people can access care, new research from the UHC's Alina Schnake-Mahl, ScD, MPH, and Jackie Jahn, PhD, MPH finds that none of the states that now ban or restrict abortion offer paid family leave, effectively forcing people to give birth and then return to work. p>
  
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- UHC Researchers Win Pilot Funding to Develop a Nationwide Database of Marijuana Dispensaries
  
  June 22, 2023
  
  Stephen Dickinson, PhD, a project manager with the Urban Health Collaborative, was recently awarded pilot funding from the Drexel University Medical Cannabis Research Center to create a database of marijuana dispensaries in the United States in order to better understand the relationship of these businesses to the neighborhoods where they are located.
  
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- Partnerships and Projects: Drexel's Recent Industry and Civic Engagement Connections
  
  June 20, 2023
  
  Last term, Drexel University — through its colleges, schools and other units and programs — created a variety of new opportunities for industry and local partnerships as well as civic engagement.
  
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- UHC Researchers Awarded Grant to Evaluate the Role of Policy in Health Outcomes and Disparities Related to HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STDs, and Tuberculosis
  
  May 30, 2023
  
  Alina Schnake-Mahl, SCD, MPH, Assistant Professor and Ana Diez Roux, MD, PHD, MPH, Director of the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative, along with researchers from The Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University Beasley School of Law (CPHLR) and Stony Brook University, have been awarded a five-year, $3.89 million CDC grant to evaluate how policy can affect infectious disease outcomes and disparities.
  
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