In partnership with the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative created a new data brief and infographic using twelve years of gun death data from 35 big U.S. cities, showing a surge in gun deaths at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
One year after the Supreme Court eliminated federal protections for abortion and allowed states to determine when — or if — people can access care, new research from the UHC's Alina Schnake-Mahl, ScD, MPH, and Jackie Jahn, PhD, MPH finds that none of the states that now ban or restrict abortion offer paid family leave, effectively forcing people to give birth and then return to work. p>
Stephen Dickinson, PhD, a project manager with the Urban Health Collaborative, was recently awarded pilot funding from the Drexel University Medical Cannabis Research Center to create a database of marijuana dispensaries in the United States in order to better understand the relationship of these businesses to the neighborhoods where they are located.
