The Drexel Urban Health Collaborative is honored to host Keshia M. Pollack Porter, PhD, MPH, Bloomberg Centennial Professor and the Bloomberg Centennial Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Pollack Porter will present a talk entitled “Promoting Policies that Advance Health Equity” and will be available to answer questions after the talk.

Loni Philip Tabb, PhD will present “Neighborhood-level Cardiovascular Health Metrics and Their Relationship with Social Determinants of Health - Spatial Statistical Implications”

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 Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, PhD, Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University. Dr. Kioumourtzoglou will present a talk titled, "Heat Impacts on the Health of New York State Residents."

Jackie Jahn, PhD, MPH will present “Evaluating Firearm Violence After New Jersey’s Cash Bail Reform” and Ayden Scheim, PhD will present “Legal gender recognition and health: a systematic review.”

Ali Groves, PhD, MHS, Patrick Smith, PhD(c), and Danya Keene, PhD present "Linking Social Policy to Health: Qualitative Examinations of Eviction Protection Programs and their Implications for Housing and Health."

Join us in commemorating the launch of Drexel's new NIH-funded Climate Change & Urban Health Center (CCUH), which will explore the impacts of climate change on health and equity in cities across the Americas. A reception will follow the event, and food and coffee will be provided.

Register now for this free event!

Virtual viewing will also be available through Zoom. Please register at this link.

If you have questions about the event, please reach out at CCUH@drexel.edu

Leah Schinasi, PhD will present on a topic related to heat, and Karlin Moore will present a THRIVEair project update.

Caroline Kravitz, MPH will present “Project Proposal: Understanding the Implementation of Food as Medicine Benefits” and Allie Eastus, MS will speak about immigration.

Please join the Drexel Climate Change and Urban Health Research Center (CCUH) for a webinar featuring Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen, PhD, Director of the Urban Planning, Environment and Health initiative and the Climate, Air pollution, Nature and Urban Health research program at ISGlobal Barcelona.

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