Alina Schnake-Mahl, SCD, MPH, Assistant Professor and Ana Diez Roux, MD, PHD, MPH, Director of the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative, along with researchers from The Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University Beasley School of Law (CPHLR) and Stony Brook University, have been awarded a five-year, $3.89 million CDC grant to evaluate how policy can affect infectious disease outcomes and disparities.
A study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health describes our approach to evaluating the West Philly Promise Neighborhood, a US Department of Education-funded place-based initiative providing cradle-to-career supports for children living or going to school in West Philadelphia.
Updated data and five new metrics are available on the Big Cities Health Inventory, an open source platform providing public health data for 35 of the largest U.S. cities.
