“No social movement has ever succeeded without the people involved being part of it,” Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger commented to the Philadelphia Inquirer this week. He was […]
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2,000 Calories Per Day are All You Need: A Closer Look at Restaurant Menu Labeling Research
Are you reading the fine print? Skipping it could be a bad idea for your health, especially in Philadelphia and other areas where that fine print contains important information: The city’s chain restaurants are required […]
How a Health Historian Became a Comedy Headliner
Sometimes comedy is all about the timing: The Yellow Fever epidemic that swept through Philadelphia in 1793 was absolutely not funny at the time when it left 5000 Philadelphians dead. “But more than 200 years […]
Child Hunger Expert Dr. Mariana Chilton Comments on Food Insecurity in the U.S.
Today the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service released the annual report on food insecurity in the United States. They report that 17.6 million households, or 14.5 percent, were food insecure in […]
Staying Upstream of Water Contamination
From November of 2001 to January of 2002 a contaminated cistern that had collected rain water for the village of Santa Isabel do Ivaí Paraná, Brazil infected more than 600 people with a parasitic disease […]
Don’t Wash Your Chicken: What’s the Cluck?
The “Don’t Wash Your Chicken” food safety campaign developed by Drexel researchers in collaboration with New Mexico State University has made a big splash in the news over the past week or so – and […]
Legal and Public Health Experts Comment on Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
Experts from Drexel’s Earle Mack School of Law and School of Public Health are available to comment for news stories about today’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that the Defense of Marriage Act […]
Meet Camden’s Witnesses to Hunger: Photographing Hope Amid Desolation
This week, a photo exhibit at the headquarters of the Campbell Soup Company marked the debut of the Camden, N.J. site of Drexel’s “Witnesses to Hunger” program. Photos from 10 low-income Camden women were on […]
Who Helps the Helpers? Stress First Aid Targets First Responders
In the aftermath of a building collapse last week in Philadelphia that killed six people in a Salvation Army thrift store and injured more than a dozen others, have we considered the impact on first […]
Neighborhoods and Health: A Deeper Look at Recent Research
Dr. Amy Auchincloss, an assistant professor in Drexel’s School of Public Health, was the lead author of a study recently published in the journal Obesity, showing that healthy food access in neighborhoods may have helped […]