Upcoming Events

Drexel Urban Health Collaborative (UHC) events during the academic year include the Invited Speaker Series, climate change webinars, and Weekly Forum Series.

Our signature summer event is the Urban Health Summer Institute, which will take place June 23-29, 2025.

Also coming up in 2025 is the Urban Health Symposium. The UHC will hold this symposium at Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health in Philadelphia from September 4-5, 2025.

Looking for more events on timely public health topics? Scan the Dornsife School of Public Health event calendar.

UHC Invited Speaker Series: Dr. Julia Lynch

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

Nesbitt Hall, Room 132 Dornsife School of Public Health 3215 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
- Everyone
The Drexel Urban Health Collaborative is honored to host Dr. Lynch. Her research focuses on the politics of public health, social policy and inequality in the rich democracies, particularly western Europe. At Penn, she co-directs the Lauder Institute and serve on the advisory boards of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, the European Studies Institute, the Italian Studies Program, and the Bioethics minor. She is the former editor at Socio-Economic Review, a multi-disciplinary journal focusing on analytical, political and moral questions arising at the intersection of economy and society.
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Drexel CCUH Invited Speaker Series Presents: Dr. Ricardo Castillo

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

10:00 AM-11:00 AM

Nesbitt Hall, Room 132 Dornsife School of Public Health 3215 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
- Everyone
The Drexel Climate Change and Urban Health Research Center (CCUH) is honored to host Dr. Ricardo Castillo, Professor of Epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Castillo's talk will take place on Tuesday, January 28th, 2025 from 10:00pm - 11:00am EST at the Dornsife School of Public Health Nesbitt Hall, Room 132.
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Drexel CCUH Invited Speaker Series Presents: Dr. Jaime Madrigano

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

10:00 AM-11:00 AM

Nesbitt Hall, Room 132 Dornsife School of Public Health 3215 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
- Everyone
The Drexel Climate Change and Urban Health Research Center (CCUH) is honored to host Dr. Jaime Madrigano, Bloomberg Associate Professor of American Health in the area of Environmental Challenges in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University
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UHC Invited Speaker Series: Dr. Elizabeth Wrigley Field

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

Nesbitt Hall, Room 132 Dornsife School of Public Health 3215 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
- Everyone
The Drexel Urban Health Collaborative is honored to host Dr. Wrigley Field. A sociologist and demographer, she studies racial inequality in mortality in the historical and contemporary United States, and specializes in finding comparisons and metrics that illuminate the human meaning of mortality disparities. She has extensively researched the Covid-19 pandemic in Minnesota, where she also co-founded an award-winning community vaccination organization. She is also a demographic methodologist, developing models designed to clarify relationships between micro and macro perspectives on population processes.
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Drexel CCUH Invited Speaker Series Presents: Dr. Kacey Ernst

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Nesbitt Hall, Room 132 Dornsife School of Public Health 3215 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
- Everyone
The Drexel Climate Change and Urban Health Research Center (CCUH) is honored to host Dr. Kacey Ernst, Department Chair & Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Arizona
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Climate Change and Urban Health Webinar Series: Dr. Stefanie Ebelt, Presented by CCUH and SALURBAL-C

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Livestreamed at the UHC: 3600 Market Street, Room 709 Zoom: https://drexel.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUldO-qrj8uH9Rp8Xkpcur_Kjgt4lxU81Gu#/registration
- Everyone
Please join the Drexel Climate Change and Urban Health Research Center (CCUH) and the Climate Change and Urban Health in Latin America (SALURBAL Climate) project for a webinar featuring Dr. Stefanie Ebelt, Professor of Environmental Health at Emory University.
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UHC Invited Speaker Series: Dr.Diana Hernandez

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

Nesbitt Hall, Room 132 Dornsife School of Public Health 3215 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104
- Everyone
The Drexel Urban Health Collaborative is honored to host Dr. Diana Hernandez. She conducts research at the intersection of energy, equity, housing and health. A sociologist by training, her work examines the social and environmental determinants of health and has studied the impacts of policy and place-based interventions on the health and well-being of socioeconomically disadvantaged populations. Her foundational research on energy insecurity- defined as the inability to adequately meet household energy needs- has explored the multiple dimensions of this phenomenon identifying sociodemographic disparities, adverse consequences and promising interventions toward energy equity and justice.  
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