Media
2021
Jennifer Kolker, MPH, Policy and Community Engagement Core Co-lead, was quoted in a Dec. 16 Philadelphia Inquirer article about Philadelphia’s enforcement of vaccine requirements for indoor dining.
View Story (The Philadelphia Inquirer) - 12.16.21
Alina S. Schnake-Mahl, ScD, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Urban Health Collaborative, was quoted in a Dec. 10 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article, which also ran in the Green Bay Press-Gazette, about leading research into indoor dining policies and COVID-19 rates during the first two waves of the pandemic. The study was also cited by Philadelphia Health Commissioner Cheryl Bettigole in coverage of vaccination requirements in Philadelphia, including Dec. 13 by Metro Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Business Journal.
View Story (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) - 12.10.21
View Story (Metro Philadelphia) - 12.13.21
View Story (Philadelphia Business Journal) - 12.13.21
Binod Acharya, MS, a data analyst in the Urban Health Collaborative, was mentioned in a Dec. 9 Medpage Today article on new data that tied COVID vaccine incentive lotteries to an increase in vaccinations. The study was also mentioned in a Dec. 13 Kaiser Health News morning briefing.
View Story (Medpage Today) - 12.09.21
View Story (Kaiser Health News) - 12.13.21
Jennifer Kolker, MPH, policy and community engagement core co-lead at the UHC, was quoted in an Oct. 11 Marketplace story about the cost of COVID-19 tests.
View Story (Marketplace) - 10.11.21
Jennifer Kolker, MPH, policy and community engagement core co-lead at the UHC, was quoted in an Aug. 5 Washington Post story about indoor dining amid the Delta variant.
View Story (Washington Post) - 8.5.21
Usama Bilal, MD, PhD, MPH an assistant professor at the UHC, was mentioned in a June 25 Philadelphia Tribune article honoring the COVID-19-fighting contributions of Ala Stanford, MD.
View Story (Philadelphia Tribune) - 6.5.21
Jennifer Kolker, MPH policy and community engagement core co-lead at the UHC, was quoted in a June 23 CBS News story about new data showing that neighborhoods with the highest rates of eviction lawsuits are also the areas with the lowest rates of vaccination.
View Story (CBS News) - 6.24.21
Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH the Dana and David Dornsife dean of the Dornsife School of Public Health and director of the UHC, was quoted in a June 21 Associated Press article about the United States hitting milestones on COVID-19 vaccinations. The article was also published June 21 by WBKO-TV (ABC-Bowling Green, Kentucky), Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, Iowa), York Dispatch, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and many other outlets nationwide. Diez Roux was also quoted in a related June 21 article in The Guardian about COVID-19 deaths in the United States dipping below 300 for the first time since the early days of the pandemic.
View Story (AP) - 6.21.21
View Story (Guardian) - 6.21.21
Usama Bilal, MD, PhD, MPH an assistant professor at the UHC, was quoted in a June 1 editorial in The Citizens’ Voice about racial inequity in COVID-19 vaccination.
View Story (The Citizens’ Voice) - 6.1.21
Gina Lovasi, PhD, MPH co-director of the UHC, was quoted in a May 26 Philadelphia magazine article about how health experts who have children too young to be vaccinated are taking COVID-19 precautions.
View Story (City Life) - 5.26.21
Usama Bilal, MD, PhD, MPH an assistant professor at the UHC, was quoted in a May 26 Spotlight PA story, picked up by The Philadelphia Inquirer, about the stark racial divide on vaccinations.
View Story (The Philadelphia Inquirer) - 5.26.21
Félice Lê-Scherban, PhD, MPH training core co-lead at the UHC, was quoted in a May 4 Chalkbeat Philadelphia story about food insecurity during the pandemic and its effect on early learners.
View Story (Chalkbeat) - 5.4.21
Usama Bilal, MD, PhD, MPH an assistant professor at the UHC, was featured in an article that discussed the level of coronavirus risk associated with specific activities
View Story (The Detroit News) - 4.28.21
Sharrelle Barber, ScD, an assistant professor at the UHC, was quoted in an April 26 NPR "Shots" story about efforts in Philadelphia to increase vaccine access to diverse populations.
View Story (NPR) - 4.26.21
Sharrelle Barber, ScD, an assistant professor at the UHC, was featured in a WHYY segment about methods to end racial inequities in COVID-19 vaccination in Philadelphia, also aired April 19 by NPR’s “Consider This” in a segment about how to encourage more people to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
View Story (WHYY) - 4.19.21
Sharrelle Barber, ScD, an assistant professor at the UHC, was quoted in an April 14 WHYY story about the importance of not leaving any communities behind in planning where to host Philadelphia’s COVID-19 vaccination clinics.
View Story (WHYY) - 4.14.21
Usama Bilal, MD, PhD, MPH, assistant professor at the UHC, was quoted in an April 5 Philadelphia Inquirer article on if it's okay to drink alcohol after getting vaccinated for COVID-19.
View Story (Philadelphia Inquirer) - 4.5.21
Usama Bilal, MD, PhD, MPH, assistant professor at the UHC and Alina Schnake-Mahl, ScD, MPH, a postdoctoral fellow at the UHC, wrote an April 1 Daily News (New York) opinion piece that argued that restricting indoor dining is among the most effective measures for reducing COVID-19 spread.
View Story (NY Daily News) - 4.1.21
Usama Bilal, MD, PhD, MPH, assistant professor at the UHC, was quoted in a March 30 WBEZ-Radio (Chicago) segment about leading a new study on distribution of COVID-19 disparities by neighborhood in Chicago, Philadelphia and New York City.
View Story (WBEZ-Radio) - 3.30.21
Usama Bilal, MD, PhD, MPH, assistant professor at the UHC, was quoted in a March 29 Bloomberg opinion article about how Easter travel may influence COVID-19 cases in Spain.
View Story (Bloomberg Opinion) - 3.29.21
Jennifer Kolker, MPH, policy and community engagement core co-lead at the UHC, was quoted in a March 19 story in The Washington Post about the current risk associated with indoor dining during the pandemic.
View Story (The Washington Post) - 3.19.21
Sharrelle Barber, ScD, an assistant professor at the UHC, was quoted in a March 12 article in The Philadelphia Tribune about the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus’s hearing on Thursday on the impact COVID-19 has had on Philadelphia’s Black community.
View Story (Philadelphia Tribune) - 3.12.21
Mariana Lazo, MD, PhD an associate research professor at the UHC, was quoted in a March 2 Philadelphia Inquirer article about why finding a COVID-19 vaccine appointment is especially tough for immigrants with limited English.
View Story (Philadelphia Inquirer) - 3.2.21
Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH dean of the Dornsife School of Public Health and director of the UHC was quoted in Feb. 23 Bloomberg opinion article about how COVID-19 is effecting new estimates of life expectancy.
View Story (Bloomberg) - 2.23.21
Sharrelle Barber, ScD, an assistant professor at the UHC, was quoted in a Feb. 22 Philadelphia Inquirer story, also published in the Philadelphia Daily News, about the growing hope brought on by the COVID-19 vaccine mingling with the deep grief people are experiencing as the U.S. marked 500,000 coronavirus-related deaths.
View Story (Philadelphia Inquirer) - 2.22.21
Usama Bilal, PhD, MD, an assistant professor at the Urban Health Collaborative, was quoted in a Lancaster Online article about how incomplete racial and ethnic data may be hindering health officials as they try to spot inequities in vaccine distribution and education.
View Story (Lancaster Online) - 2.9.21
Ana V. Diez Roux, MD, PHD, dean at the Dornsife School of Public Health and director of the Urban Health Collaborative, and Sarah Long, MD, a professor in the College of Medicine, were featured in a Philadelphia Inquirer article about failures in the vaccine response to the pandemic.
View Story (Philadelphia Inquirer) - 2.6.21
Usama Bilal, PhD, MD, an assistant professor at the Urban Health Collaborative, was quoted in a Philadelphia Inquirer article about line-jumping to get COVID-19 vaccines. The article was also published by MSN Lifestyle.
View Story (Philadelphia Inquirer) - 2.5.21
Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH, an assistant professor, UHC, was quoted in a Jan. 30 Philadelphia Inquirer article about mistrust in medicine that exists among marginalized communities.
View Story (Philadelphia Inquirer) - 1.30.21
Data on racial disparities in COVID-19 testing from Usama Bilal, MD, PhD, an assistant professor, UHC, was mentioned in a Jan. 5 TIME magazine article about distrust of COVID-19 vaccines.
View Story (TIME) - 1.6.21
2020
Jennifer Kolker, MPH, policy and engagement core co-lead, was quoted in a Nov. 8 WCAU-TV (NBC-10) "NBC10@Issue" segment about new Urban Health Collaborative data about how indoor dining restrictions may influence COVID-19 case counts.
View Story (WCAU-TV) - 11.8.20
A Philadelphia Inquirer story that quoted Usama Bilal, MD, PhD, an assistant professor at the UHC, about how and whether to celebrate Thanksgiving this year was picked up Nov. 5 by the Philadelphia Daily News and Nov. 4 by The Oregonian.
View Story (The Oregonian) - 11.4.20
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View Story (MSN) - 10.12.20
Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH an assistant professor at the UHC was quoted in a Nov. 2 New York Times Magazine article about a report in The Lancet showing that the brunt of the pandemic has fallen on already vulnerable U.S. populations.
View Story (The New York Times Magazine) - 11.2.20
Usama Bilal, MD, PhD, MPH, an assistant professor at the UHC was quoted in an Oct. 29 SER (Spain) article and Oct. 30 AS (Spain) article about Spain’s response to the pandemic.
View Story (AS) - 10.30.20
View Story (SER) - 10.29.20
Jen Kolker, MPH policy and community engagement core co-lead at the UHC was quoted in an Oct. 22 Philadelphia Inquirer story about proposed reopening plans for the School District of Philadelphia.
View Story (Philadelphia Inquirer) - 10.22.20
Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH, an assistant research professor at the UHC, was quoted in a WLVT-TV (PBS-Allentown, Pennsylvania) story about racial disparities in COVID-19 cases and deaths.
View Story (WVUE) - 7.21.20
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Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH, an assistant research professor at the UHC, was quoted in a July 20 Smithsonian article about how the coronavirus has disproportionally sickened and killed marginalized communities.
View Story (Smithsonian) - 7.20.20
Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH, an assistant research professor at the UHC, and Usama Bilal, PhD, MD, MPH, an assistant professor at the UHC, were quoted in a July 8 New York Times article about a new study showing that race, ethnicity, age and gender can raise a person’s chances of dying from COVID-19.
View Story (The New York Times) - 6.8.20
Usama Bilal, PhD, MD, MPH, an assistant professor at the UHC, was quoted in a July 6 Associated Press article about COVID-19 testing disparities. The article ran in the Washington Post, PBS Newshour, The Philadelphia Tribune and other news outlets nationwide.
View Story (The Washington Post) - 6.6.20
Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH, an assistant research professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, was quoted in a June 1 WHYY-Radio segment about some of the factors that led to current protests over racial inequality. Barber was also quoted in a June 1 story in The Nation about COVID-19’s impact on the longstanding fight against racial disparities in health care.
View Story (WHYY) – 6.1.20
View Story (The Nation) – 6.1.20
Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH, an assistant research professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, was quoted in a June 2 WHYY story about continued plans in Philadelphia to move to the ‘yellow’ phase of re-opening on Friday.
View Story (WHYY) – 6.2.20
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Usama Bilal, MD, PhD, MPH, an assistant professor at the UHC, was quoted in a June 1 story in The Nation about about whether COVID-19 will be a turning point in the fight against racial disparities in health care.
View Story (The Nation) – 6.1.20
Ana V. Diez Roux, MD, PhD, dean and distinguished university professor of the Dornsife School of Public Health, authored a May 5 "Field Notes'" commentary in The Brooklyn Rail about how the pandemic has exposed the links between social, economic and political systems we have created for ourselves and our health.
View Story (Inquirer) - 5.12.20
View Story (Brooklyn Rail) - 5.7.20
Amy Carroll-Scott, PhD, MPH, Policy and Community Engagement Core Co-lead, and Jennifer Kolker, MPH, Policy and Community Engagement Core Co-lead, at the UHC, spoke about estimates about how many lives may have been saved through stay-at-home orders.
View Story (Inquirer) - 5.12.20
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Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH, an assistant research professor at the UHC, co-wrote an article for the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) about racism in the time of COVID-19 and the history of systematic racism and illness.
View Story (IAPHS) - 4.9.20
Usama Bilal, MD, PhD, MPH, an assistant professor at the UHC, spoke to the Rolling Stone about plans to end federal support for COVID-19 testing and transitioning the responsibility and funding to states, "Any time a reduction in accessibility in a health resource happens, it is the most vulnerable populations that suffer,” Bilal continued. “People with access to more resources (wealthier, more educated, etc.) tend to have the ability to access those resources through other means (in this case, private testing through referral from the doctor they usually see)."
View Story (Rolling Stone) - 4.9.20
Ana V. Diez Roux, MD, PhD, MPH, Dean and Distinguished University Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the UHC, spoke with host Marty Moss-Coane of WHYY's Radio Times about the coronavirus outbreak’s toll on poor communities. Philadelphia has among the highest poverty rate of any American city, with 26% of residents living below the poverty line.
View Story (WHYY's Radio Times) - 4.7.20
Sharrelle Barber, ScD, MPH, an assistant research professor at the UHC, were quoted in an April 27 Spotlight PA article about how coronavirus data is being shared among states to inform decision-making. The story was published April 27 by The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pew Charitable Trusts, York Dispatch and other newspapers across Pennsylvania.
View Story (Spotlight PA) - 4.27.20
UHC and Dornsife Experts
UHC and Dornsife faculty continue to offer expert commentary and analysis on the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in local, national, and international media outlets.
News media professionals should contact Greg Richter, News Manager, at 215.895.2614 or gdr33@drexel.edu, to schedule an interview with a Dornsife faculty expert.