Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University

06/01/2026

Co-led research out of Dornsife’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics established a first-of-its-kind county-level cardiovascular health score based on the American Heart Association's Life's Essential 8 framework, a tool previously used only to assess individual health risk. Drawing on publicly available data from the CDC's PLACES database and the County Health Rankings and Roadmap, the team mapped cardiovascular health across thousands of U.S. counties, revealing striking geographic disparities:
https://drexel.edu/dornsife/news/latest-news/2026/May/cvh-scores-using-life-essential-8/

05/29/2026

Dornsife students used data developed by the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative’s Research and Data Core to take part in a Data Challenge. Students worked together to identify a meaningful research question, conduct an analysis to answer their question using UHC data, and create/share a presentation to tell the story about what they discovered: https://drexel.edu/uhc/news-events/news/2026/May/Drexel-Undergrads-Use-UHC-Data

Earlier this year, as a part of undergraduate courses available through Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health, students used data developed by the UHC's Research and Data Core to take part in an annual Data Challenge.

05/28/2026

Dornsife Commencement is 2 weeks away! We will celebrate the Class of 2026 at the Academy of Music in the heart of Philadelphia. 🎉🎓 Learn more about our speakers, how to live stream the event, and more: https://drexel.edu/dornsife/news/events/commencement/

05/26/2026

Jessica Tortu, Academic Advisor at Dornsife, won one of two Outstanding Academic Advisor Awards for the University. Congrats, Jessica! 👏🎉

05/20/2026

Several Dornsife students were recognized at the 2026 Drexel Student Life Impact Awards and the Graduate Student Excellence Awards. Congrats!

🏅 Chizoba Okorie, MPH student, won the Graduate Student Leader of the Year Award
🏅 Mark Hernandez, PhD student, and Victoria Rodríguez Villareal, MPH student, won the Drexel Common Good Award
🏅 Dornsife’s Maternal and Child Health Student Organization won the Outstanding Civic and Community Engagement Award presented by the Graduate Student Association

https://drexel.edu/dornsife/news/latest-news/2026/May/students-recognized-during-award-season/

05/20/2026

What does research look like when community voices lead the conversation? Join the Promise Zone Research Connection for West Philly Research Day 2026 next week (Thursday, May 28) to connect and reimagine research partnerships:

What does research look like when community voices lead the conversation? Join WPRD 26 to connect and reimagine research partnerships.

05/18/2026

Thank you to this year's 2026 Jonathan Mann Health and Human Rights Memorial Lecture speaker, Gregg Gonsalves, PhD, professor at Yale School of Public Health & co-director of the Global Health Justice Partnership, for joining us last week! His lecture titled "Rights Were Never Enough: Politics, Power and Public Health" explored our nation's history, lessons learned from social movements, and where we stand in the fight for health and human rights.

05/13/2026

Congratulations to the winners of the Philadelphia Public Health Futures: A Writing & Art Challenge hosted by Accelerate Health Equity!

"This contest helps expand how we can think about public health and show that it’s not just a discipline, but also a lived, creative, and community-centered experience." -Tariem Burroughs, PhD, ED of External Partnerships at Dornsife

https://ahephl.org/aheblog/announcing-winners-2026-philadelphia-public-health-futures-challenge

05/12/2026

As a Maternal & Child Health Trainee at Dornsife, Emily Flanders, MPH '26, worked with A Book a Day to expand programming that increases access to books in local neonatal intensive care units.

"This experience expanded my knowledge on the immense role that books play throughout the entire life course and the impact that books can have as a tool, especially in a place like the NICU where parents could be experiencing trauma." -Emily

Learn more:
https://drexel.edu/dornsife/academics/departments/community-health-prevention/maternal-child-health-program/news-events/mch-news/2026/April/book-a-day/

05/12/2026

Join us TOMORROW for our Jonathan Mann Health & Human Rights Memorial Lecture & Reception from 3:00-5:00 p.m. This year's speaker is Gregg Gonsalves, PhD, professor at Yale School of Public Health & co-director of the Global Health Justice Partnership.

Talk Title: Rights Were Never Enough: Politics, Power and Public Health

RSVP ➡️ bit.ly/DSPHMannLecture