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Applying Occupational Health and Health Communications Principles Outside the Classroom January 11, 2021 Originally from Narragansett, Rhode Island, Victoria Gallogly was intrigued by Drexel University due to its urban setting. “I’m from a small New England beach town and was looking to expand my worldview and experience city living,” she said. “Dornsife and Philadelphia in general had a very welcoming energy when I toured the university, which ultimately persuaded me to commit to Drexel University.” During her freshmen year, Gallogly became interested in studying public health due ...

Will treat racism as a ‘public health crisis’ Drexel University received a $9 million donation from alumna Dana Dornsife and her husband David to establish a new center dedicated to studying racism and public health issues. The proposed Center on Racism and Health “will focus on structural racism and racial inequities in urban contexts and how these intersect with pressing population health challenges,” the university news release said. Some of those health challenges include “police brutality and climate change.” “All over the world there are renewed calls to address racism as ...

Igor Alecsander via Getty Images The practice of wearing a mask to protect yourself and others is important even after you receive a coronavirus vaccine. Seeing people wearing masks in everyday life is now the norm throughout much of the country — something that was uncommon in the United States until the coronavirus pandemic began in March. Over the course of 2020, we’ve learned that wearing a mask protects yourself and others from the coronavirus, underscoring the importance of wearing a mask while in public or close settings. Mask-wearing, hand-washing and social distancing remain key ...

WHYY By A hydraulic fracturing drill rig in Bradford County. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Landov) This story originally appeared on StateImapct Pennsylvania. ___ Heart failure patients who live near fracking operations were more likely to be hospitalized than those who live farther away, according to a new study. Researchers at Drexel and Johns Hopkins studied medical records of 12,000 heart patients in Pennsylvania between 2008 and 2015. The authors reported “significantly increased odds of hospitalization among heart failure subjects in relation to increasing” fracking activity in the area near t...

PrEP prescription can make a positive difference in women who inject drugs When taken daily, pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is a highly effective way to prevent HIV transmission, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now a new study shows that implementing PrEP distribution within a community-based syringe services program gets the medication into the hands of women who inject drugs -- a population disproportionately impacted by HIV. The results, from researchers at Drexel University's Dornsife School of Public Health, Dornsife School of Public Health, were recently...