Félice Lê-Scherban, PhD, MPH

Training Core Co-lead
267-359-6178
f.lescherban@drexel.edu

Dr. Lê-Scherban is Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health, where she also co-leads the Training Core of the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative. She holds a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan and an MPH in Epidemiology/Biostatistics from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research centers on health disparities with a focus on children’s health disparities, life course determinants, and immigrant health. Her work has examined intergenerational socioeconomic influences on mental and physical health; neighborhood social contexts; and cardiovascular risk among immigrants. She currently serves as lead of the Philadelphia site of Children’s HealthWatch and co-lead of the West Philly Promise Neighborhood Data & Research Core. She also leads an NIH-funded project to investigate how food insecurity, neighborhood conditions, and food assistance programs come together to affect growth in young children.

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