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Invited Speaker Series

The Urban Health Collaborative's distinguished invited speaker series focuses on innovative approaches to improving urban health both in the United States and abroad.

  • 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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  • 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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