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Drexel University President John Fry has been appointed honorary consul of South Africa for Philadelphia, a position that will charge him with strengthening the University and the city’s partnership and collaboration with the nation. As an appointee of the president of South Africa, duly approved by U.S. State Department’s Office of Foreign Missions, Fry will work to further the development of commercial, economic, cultural and scientific relations between the U.S. and South Africa.

Drexel University’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute was awarded a 5-year, $10 million Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) award from the National Institutes of Health to understand and reduce barriers to good health and health care access for people with autism. The project titled “Public Health and Autism Science advancing Equitable Strategies across the life course” (PHASES) will employ a public health research framework to examine health determinants, health services delivery and health inequity – especially in under-represented diverse populations – and the impact of these forces on ...

The city’s health department launched a web-based tool this week with the goal of making it easier for residents to identify where they can seek free and low-cost primary care.

Philadelphia health department officials say they have concerns about the limited scope of the initial monkeypox vaccination campaign.

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Council on Black Health, a research and action network dedicated to improving Black health nationwide, launched a new, national...