Past Events

GIS Workshop - GIS Part II: ArcGIS - Getting Data into Maps

Wednesday, March 15, 2017

9:00 AM-11:00 AM

Pearlstein Business Learning Center Room 206
- Everyone
ArcGIS: Getting Data into Maps is the second in a three-part series of ArcGIS trainings designed to teach participants how to get tabular data containing latitudes and longitudes, street addresses, or other place names, into a format that can be used to create maps with ArcGIS. The training will also demonstrate how to link tabular data to existing spatial datasets.
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Urban Health Collaborative Invited Speaker: Jason Corburn

Friday, March 10, 2017

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, 3600 Market Street, 7th Floor, Room 709
- Everyone
The Urban Health Collaborative is proud to present Jason Corburn, PhD, MCP. His talk is entitled “Cities for Life: Transforming Urban Institution for Health Equity.” Dr. Corburn is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, jointly appointed in the Department of City & Regional Planning and the School of Public Health. He directs Berkeley's Institute of Urban and Regional Development, the joint Master of City Planning (MCP) and Master of Public Health (MPH) degree program and leads the Center for Global Healthy Cities.
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GIS Workshop - GIS Part I: Getting Started with ArcGIS

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

9:00 AM-11:00 AM

Pearlstein Business Learning Center Room 206
- Everyone
Getting Started with ArcGIS is the first in a three-part series of hands-on trainings designed to teach new users how to create basic maps using ArcGIS software and explore spatial data for Philadelphia.
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Urban Health Collaborative Research Seminar

Friday, March 3, 2017

2:00 PM-3:30 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health, Nesbitt Hall, Room 719
- Everyone
Presented by UHC Pilot Funding Awardees Mariana Chilton, PhD, MPH, and Rachel Peters, MPH, DrPHc, this research seminar series provides opportunities to learn about new areas in urban health research and explores ways research can impact practice and policy in urban settings.
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Research Seminar: Presented by UHC Pilot Funding Awardees

Friday, March 3, 2017

2:00 PM-3:30 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health Nesbitt Hall, Room 719
- Everyone
Presented by UHC Pilot Funding Awardees: Longjian Liu, MD, PhD, MSc, FAHA, Mariana Chilton, PhD, MPH, and Rachel Peters, MPH
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Mapping Community Assets with WebGIS

Friday, February 24, 2017

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Hagerty Library, Room L33
- Everyone
Drexel GIS Users Group presents Neville Vakharia, Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, who will talk about using WebGIS tools to map community assets. The MuseumStat tool he developed helps connect museums to communities.
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UHC Research Seminar: Update on Recent UHC Grants

Friday, February 3, 2017

2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health Nesbitt Hall, Room 719
- Everyone
The scheduled Research Seminar has been canceled due to speaker illness. Instead, please join us on Friday, February 3 in Nesbitt Hall, Room 719 for a celebration of the UHC’s recent awards and upcoming work. Faculty will each provide a brief overview of their project, followed by some Q&A and a reception.
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Research and Teaching with Geographic Data Workshop

Friday, January 20, 2017

9:30 AM-1:00 PM

Urban Health Collaborative 3600 Market Street 7th Floor, Room 709 Philadelphia, PA 19104
- Staff
Leveraging Philadelphia-focused and national data
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Research Seminar: Presented by UHC Pilot Funding Awardees

Friday, January 6, 2017

2:00 PM-3:30 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health Urban Health Collaborative 3600 Market Street, Room 709
- Everyone
The next UHC research seminar will feature presentations on UHC funded pilot projects in progress by Leah Schinasi, PhD, MSPH, Amy Carroll-Scott, PhD, and Lee Pachter, DO. Topics include:

An investigation of associations between heat and infant mortality, and effect modification by greenness and socioeconomic and demographic characteristics in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Presented by PI Leah Schinasi, MSPH, PhD

Using Data Integration to Create a Profile of Violence Needs and Assets to Inform Solutions in the Latino Community of Eastern North Philadelphia
Presented by PI Amy Carroll-Scott, PhD, MPH

Intergenerational Associations between Adult Past Exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences and Offspring Child Health Outcomes: The Philadelphia Urban ACE Study
Presented by PI Lee Pachter, DO, co-PI Felice Le-Scherban, PhD, MPH

To RSVP, please send an email to uhc@drexel.edu.
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Urban Health Collaborative Research Seminar: Heidi Grunwald

Friday, December 2, 2016

2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Dornsife School of Public Health Nesbitt Hall, Room 719
- Everyone
The UHC is pleased to present Heidi E. Grunwald, PhD, Deputy Director of the Center for Health Law, Policy and Practice, Beasley School of Law, Temple University. Dr. Grunwald is a trained quantitative methodologist from the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research and Quantitative Methodology program and is responsible for the leadership, survey research methods and deliverables of the Institute. ISR has specialties in recruiting, surveying and tracing vulnerable and urban populations with high response rates. Her presentation is entitled "Building a City-Wide Survey Panel: Engaging Residents through Multiple Modes."
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