Today’s cities face many challenges, including climate change, rising inequality, and health disparities. Yet urban environments offer optimum opportunities for the development of innovative programs and policies that can improve population health.
The 2019 Drexel Urban Health Symposium brought together researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to spark conversations and new ideas about how to turn evidence into action, share creative methods and solutions, and stimulate debate among participants from diverse perspectives and fields.
The poster session and reception covered a broad range of research topics related to urban health and provide an informal setting to discuss the themes of the symposium.
Poster Session Location
Drexel University
Bossone Research Center
(Lobby and 3rd floor atrium level)
3140 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Poster Sessions
To download a PDF of the posters, please click here.
Evaluating Interventions
1. “Secondhand Smoke (SHS) Incursions in Two NYC Subsidized Housing Settings: New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and Private Sector Buildings”
Elle Anastasiou, BS, Albert Tovar, BS, Emily Gill, BS, Melanie Baker, MPH, Katarzyna “Kasia” Wyka, PhD, Terry Gordon, PhD, Lorna E. Thorpe, PhD
Presenting author’s affiliation: New York University School of Medicine
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4. “Evaluating the health effects of urban upgrading interventions in informal settlements: a systematic review (2012-2018)”
Rosie Mae Henson, MPH, PhD(c), Ana Ortigoza, MS, MD, PhD, Kevin Martinez, MD, Gina Lovasi, MPH, PhD
Presenting author’s affiliation: Dornsife School of Public Health
Place-Based Research and Initiatives
5. “Blight Surveillance for Public Health: Using 311 Data to Target Interventions”
Jessica Athens, PhD, MS, Nupur Chaudhury, MUP, MPH, Mark Zezza, PhD, MA, David Sandman, PhD, MPA
Presenting author’s affiliation: New York State Health Foundation
6. “Population-Based Measures of Exposure to Violence Are Associated with Mental Health, While Proximal Violent Crime Incidents Are Not”
Amy Carroll-Scott, PhD, MPH, Samantha Rivera Joseph, MPH, Rennie Joshi, MPH
Presenting author’s affiliation: Dornsife School of Public Health
7. “Feasibility of measuring adverse community experiences as indicators of community-level trauma: a systematic review”
Samantha Rivera Joseph, MPH, Randy Sell, ScD, Ana Martinez-Donate, PhD, Brent Langellier, PhD, MA, Amy Carroll-Scott, PhD, MPH, Yvonne Michael, ScD, SM
Presenting author’s affiliation: Dornsife School of Public Health
8. “An Overview of the West Philly Promise Neighborhood Initiative”
Erikka Gilliam, MS, MPH, Amy Carroll-Scott, PhD, Félice Lê-Scherban, PhD, Kelley Traister, MSW, Maggie Beverly, MPH, Irene Headen, PhD, Matthew Jannetti, MSPPM, Andrew Stutzman, MS, Dai Meeks, Samantha Joseph, MPH, DrPH(c)
Presenting author’s affiliation: Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health
9. “Creating a comprehensive resource directory for children and families in West Philly Promise Neighborhood”
Maggie Beverly, MPH, Amy Carroll-Scott, PhD, Félice Lê-Scherban, PhD, Kelley Traister, MSW, Leah Lombardi, BS, Dai Meeks
Presenting author’s affiliation: Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health
10. “Map the Gap: Addressing Urban Trauma in Mantua, PA Via Human-Centered Design, Interdisciplinarity, and Mixed-Methods Translational Research”
Samantha Stein, Diana Nicholas, RA, AIA, NCARB, Yvonne Michael, ScD, SM, Kristin Giordano, MPH, Thanh My Nguyen
Presenting author’s affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
11. “Surveillance of urban policy action related to social determinants of health at the city level”
Jennifer Kolker, MPH, Amy Confair, MPH, Katherine Castro, MPH(c), Amy Carroll-Scott, PhD, MPH
Presenting author’s affiliation: Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health
12. “The role of school segregation in child obesity disparities”
Nuha Mahmood, BS, Brisa Sánchez, PhD, Emma Sanchez-Vaznaugh, ScD, Mika Matsuzaki
Presenting author’s affiliation: University of Michigan
13. “Understanding Menstrual Hygiene Management Among Adolescents in Indian Urban Slums”
Tanya Dhingra, MPH, Heather Murphy, PhD, PEng
Presenting author’s affiliation: Temple University
Built environment
14. “A comparison of first-time Citi Bike members to New York City cyclists, 2013-2018”
Aldo Crossa, MSc, Kathleen H Reilly, PhD, Shu Meir Wang, PhD, Sze Yan Liu, PhD, Anne Krassner, MS, Sungwoo Lim, DrPH
Presenting author’s affiliation: NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
15. “Determinants of residential preferences related to built and social environments and concordance between neighborhood characteristics and preferences”
Jingjing Li, PhD, Amy Auchincloss, PhD, Daniel Rodriguez, PhD, Kari Moore, MS, Ana Diez Roux, PhD, Brisa Sanchez, PhD
Presenting author’s affiliation: Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health
16. “Field validation of two food outlet data sources used to characterize the food environments in New York City”
Aldo Crossa, MSc, Ryan Gardner-Cook, MA, Amarilis Cespedes, PhD, Sze Yan Liu, PhD, Sungwoo Lim, PhD, L. Hannah Gould, PhD
Presenting author’s affiliation: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
17. “Characterizing Smoking-related Litter in Public Parks in Philadelphia”
Russell McIntire, PhD MPH, Ashley Lipshaw, MPH(c)
Presenting author’s affiliation: Thomas Jefferson University
18. “How do low-income ethnic families with young children use parks? Using latent class analysis to understand types of park use and family characteristics”
Jing-Huei Huang, Med, Myron Floyd, PhD, Oriol Marquet, PhD, Claudia Alberico, MS, Elizabeth Mazak, MS, J. Aaron Hipp, PhD
Presenting author’s affiliation: North Carolina State University
19. Built environment and physical activity among youth: Findings from Mexico City”
Tahmeed Tureen, BS, Elizabeth FS Roberts, PhD, Martha M Tellez-Rojo, PhD, Brisa N Sanchez, PhD
Presenting author’s affiliation: University of Michigan School of Public Health
Climate, air pollution, and environmental exposures
20. “Solutions at the nexus of Climate Change and Health for Cities”
Debarati Majumdar Narayan, PhD
Presenting author’s affiliation: The Pew Charitable Trusts
21. “Understanding Hurricane María’s Impact on Public Health in Puerto Rico”
Mislael Valentín-Cortés, BA, Dana Thomas, MPH
Presenting author’s affiliation: University of Michigan School of Public Health
22. “Social Susceptibility to Multiple Air Pollutants in Cardiovascular Disease”
Jane Clougherty, ScD, MSc, Jamie Humphrey, PhD, MPH, Ellen Kinnee, MS, Laura Kubzansky, PhD, MPH, Colleen Reid, PhD, MPH, Leslie McClure; PhD, MS, Lucy Robinson; PhD, MA
Presenting author’s affiliation: Environmental and Occupational Health, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health
23. “Disentangling impacts of multiple nitrogen dioxide sources across Philadelphia”
Sheila Tripathy, PhD, Paige Williams, MPH, Lucia Lavalle, Leah Schinasi, PhD, Shannon Capps, PhD, Jane E. Clougherty, ScD
Presenting author’s affiliation: Dornsife School of Public Health
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25. “Differential food, water and animal exposures reported by Pennsylvania Salmonella and Campylobacter case-patients in urban and rural areas, 2011-2016.”
Erica Smith, PhD, MPH, Esther Chernak, MD, MPH, Alison Evans, ScD
Presenting author’s affiliation: Dornsife School of Public Health
Changing Cities
Changing cities
26. “Trends in transit use, walking to transit, and ridesharing between 2009 and 2017 in the US and its major metropolitan areas”
David Berrigan, PhD MPH, Calvin Tribby, PhD MPH
Presenting author’s affiliation: National Cancer Institute
27. “Changes in physical activity supportive environments and changes in small-area sociodemographic composition in US urban areas: a bi-directional analysis”
Pedro Gullon, MD, PhD, Usama Bilal, MD, PhD, Jana Hirsch, PhD, Andrew Rundle, PhD, Julia Díez, MsC, Philip Hurvitz, PhD, Insu Koh, PhD, Gina S. Lovasi, PhD
Presenting author’s affiliation: Dornsife School of Public Health
28. “Aging in a Gentrifying Harlem”
Saakshi Kakar, BS, Mubarak Sanni, Isabella Greco, Justin McIntosh
Presenting author’s affiliation: Wesleyan University
29. “Change in Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome Among New York City Adults: New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2004 and 2013-14”
Rania Kanchi, MPH, Sharon Perlman, MPH, Bahman Tabaei, Adeiyewunmi Osinubi, Lorna Thorpe, PhD
Presenting author’s affiliation: NYU Langone Health
30. “Changing Neighborhoods, Changing Health? An Ecological Analysis of Gentrification and Neighborhood Level Health - New York City, 2002-2018”
Karen Alroy, DVM, MPH, Sze Yan Liu, PhD, MPH, Michael Sanderson, MS, Aldo Crossa, MSc, L. Hannah Gould, PhD, MBA, Sungwoo Lim, DrPH, MS
Presenting author’s affiliation: CDC and NYC DOHMH
Special populations
31. “Housing Needs of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their Families Living in Philadelphia”
Paul Turcotte, MPH, Lindsay Shea, MS, DrPH, Mimi Wong, LCSW, Kate Verstreate, MPH
Presenting author’s affiliation: AJ Drexel Autism Insitute
32. “Community Needs of Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their Families Living in Philadelphia”
Mimi Wong, LCSW, Lindsay Shea, MS, DrPH, Paul Turcotte, MPH, Derek Green, JD
Presenting author’s affiliation: AJ Drexel Autism Institute
33. “Scaling of drug fatalities in the Unites States”
Pricila Mullachery, MPH PhD, Usama Bilal, MD MPH PhD
Presenting author’s affiliation: Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health
34. “"Anything Could Happen" How Perceived HIV Risk Influences PrEP Initiation Among Women Who Inject Drugs in Philadelphia”
Eliza Ziegler, BA, Marisa Felsher, MPH, PhD(c), Jade McKnight, MPH, Alexis Roth, PhD, MPH
Presenting author’s affiliation: Dornsife School of Public Health
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36. “Ongoing Pilot Study on the Use of Doxycycline as Prophylaxis for Syphilis in HIV-Infected Men Who Have Sex With Men”
Heather Conway, BS, Zsofia Szep, MD, Shara Epstein, MD, Michele Kutzler, PhD, Edward Gracely, PhD, Margaret O'Connor, MS, MD/PhD student, Nguyen K. Tran, MPH, PhD(c), Seth Welles, ScD, PhD
Presenting author’s affiliation: Drexel University College of Medicine
37. “Qualitative Assessment to Understand the Knowledge Associated with Hepatitis B Among Vietnamese Nail Salon Workers in Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia, PA”
Catherine Freeland, MPH, Nga Vu, Tracy Nguyen, Nancy Nguyen, Chari Cohen, DrPH, MPH, Tran Huynh, PhD, MPH, CIH
Presenting author’s affiliation: Hepatitis B Foundation
38. “Prevalence and Awareness of Chronic Kidney Disease New York City Adults, 2013-14”
Sharon Perlman, MPH, Linda Wong, MD, MPH, Claudia Chernov, MPH, Sumit Mohan, MD, MPH, Lorna Thorpe, PhD
Presenting author’s affiliation: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
39. Ruwais UN-Planned: A Public Health and Territorial Intervention”
Faris Abuzeid, BArch / MSc
Presenting author’s affiliation: Faris Abuzeid + Associates (FA+A)
Innovative Research Methodology
Innovative research methodology
40. “City-level measures of health, health determinants, and equity to foster population health improvement: the City Health Dashboard”
Miriam Gofine, MPH, Shoshanna Levine, DrPH, Lorna Thorpe, PhD, Benjamin Spoer, PhD, Marc Gourevitch, MD, MPH
Presenting author’s affiliation: City Health Dashboard, NYU School of Medicine, Department of Population Health
41. “Comparing Health and Social Outcomes Among US Peer Cities Using Cluster Analysis”
Justin Feldman, ScD, Lorna Thorpe, PhD, Benjamin Spoer, PhD, Shoshanna Levine, DrPH, Marc Gourevitch, MD, MPH
Presenting author’s affiliation: NYU School of Medicine
42. “Improving Sampling Probability Definitions with Predictive Algorithms”
Matthew Jannetti, MSPPM, Amy Caroll-Scott, PhD, MPH, Erikka Gilliam, MS, MPH, Irene Headen, PhD, MS, Félice Lê-Scherban, PhD, MPH, Maggie Beverly, MPH, Samantha Joseph, MPH
Presenting author’s affiliation: Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health
43. “Spatial Statistical Methods to Assess the Relationship Between Water Violations and Poverty at the County Level: In America, Who has Access to Clean Water?”
Ruby Bayliss, BS, Loni Tabb, PhD
Presenting author’s affiliation: Dornsife School of Public Health
44. “Spatiotemporal analysis of overall health in the united states between 2010-2018 using bayesian methods”
Binod Acharya, MS, Loni Tabb, PhD
Presenting author’s affiliation: Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health
45. “Split and combine SIMEX algorithm to correct geocoding coarsening of built environment exposures”
Jung Yeon Won, MS, Brisa N. Sánchez, PhD
Presenting author’s affiliation: University of Michigan
46. “A causal model to estimate the effect of distance-weighted built environment exposures from longitudinal data”
Adam Peterson, M.S., Brisa Sanchez, PhD
Presenting author’s affiliation: University of Michigan
47. “Understanding geographic disparities in cancer mortality: Does selection of neighborhood deprivation index matter?”
Daniel Wiese, PSM, Shannon Lynch, PhD, Kevin Henry, PhD, Kari Moore, MS, Yuzhe Zhao, Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH
Presenting author’s affiliation: Temple University, Geography Department
48. “Network Analysis of Latino-Serving Organizations in Philadelphia to Promote Immigrant Health in Urban Settings”
Nishita Dsouza, MPH, Elizabeth Hassrick, PhD, Kristin Giordano, MPH, Chris Friedman, BA
Presenting author’s affiliation: Dornsife School of Public Health