| 1 | | APM78@DREXEL.EDU | Project Migrante | Both | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | This project consists of a series of cross-sectional health surveys of migrant flows traveling through the Mexico- U.S. border. | Assist with data collection, monitoring, analysis, and result dissemination through paper, reports, and presentations.. | www.migrante.weebly.com | Spanish fluency would be desirable, but not necessary. |
| 2 | | APM78@DREXEL.EDU | CRISOL Mente | Master's Only | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | A community-engaged research project to test the effectiveness of a This study will implement and evaluate a multi-level intervention to reduce mental health disparities in Latino communities of Philadelphia. | Assist with data collection, monitoring, analysis, and result dissemination. | | Spanish fluency would be desirable, but not necessary. |
| 3 | | aga56@drexel.edu | Transitioning to fatherhood and Black men's health | Neither | Both | No | Yes | Yes | The goals of this study are to a) assess the relationship between low-income young adults’ knowledge of preconception health and their health status during the transition to parenthood, b) assess how Black men think about health and wellness in the context of fatherhood c) explore the experiences and needs of these Black men during the transition to fatherhood d) identify resources and other support systems available to and/or leveraged during transition e) capture stakeholder (including community leaders, health care providers, policy makers) perspectives on these experiences, needs and available support and resources among this population. | Quantitative data analysis, literature reviews, qualitative interviews and data analysis | | I want a student who has both quantitative and qualitative skills. However, I have a stronger preference for a student with strong biostatistics experience/training |
| 4 | | jlk465@drexel.edu | Climate change and health disparities in cities in the US and Latin America | Master's Only | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | Understand how exposure to extreme temperatures and to flooding impacts short- and long-term health and health disparities, with a focus on understanding differences in health impacts across the life course | Assist with literature reviews and/or quantitative analysis of the environment and health outcomes | | Quantiative background and experience with R preferred, but not required. Spanish language skills are helpful, but not required. |
| 5 | | jj3222@drexel.edu | The Consequences of Ending Cash Bail for Community Health Equity | Master's Only | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | Our project's core research questions are: did community health improve, worsen, or remain unchanged after New Jersey’s bail reform, compared to control states? Were improvements equal for Black and white residents? | Support literature reviews, data analysis, and dissemination activities (conference abstracts, papers, fact sheets, infographics, etc) | https://www.evidenceforaction.org/grant/consequences-ending-cash-bail-community-health-equity | Preference for someone with a strong interest in structural determinants of health, esp. structural racism, and experience analyzing data in R or Stata R |
| 6 | | jme336@drexel.edu | Assessing Equity in Shared Decision Making, Utilization and Outcomes of Lung Cancer Screening | Neither | Both | No | Yes | Yes | This American Cancer Society-funded project will work with up to 10 community-based lung cancer screening programs in the South and Appalachian region. An organizational assessment, interview guide, and series of surveys will be created to measure the quality of patient-provider communication about lung cancer screening (and tobacco cessation counseling) in diverse patient populations. | The student will be responsible for helping draft/review data collection instruments in Spanish, based upon materials previously drafted in English. They will also help with IRB protocols/amendments, onboarding of screening centers to the study, and/or study website design. | | Spanish fluency (speaking and writing), Experience w/ data collection/management |
| 7 | | bal95@drexel.edu | City-Level Integrating Policies, Public Program Participation, and Birth
Outcomes among Immigrants | Neither | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | Despite the growing research regarding the link between state policy and immigrant-related outcomes, little is known about how city-level policies advance or hinder equity among immigrants. This gap includes understanding which policies, programs, and supports are most important, as well quantifying the impact on immigrants’ health and social outcomes. This proposal will directly address this gap by combining an existing, city-level index of immigrant integration collected in the 100 largest U.S. cities with data regarding participation in public assistance programs and birth outcomes. The study will build evidence about how urban policies relate to systems of oppression and injustice and can advance or hinder health equity. | Literature review, simple data analyses linking city-level policies and outcomes | | Epidemiology or Health Policy and Management student |
| 8 | | lav53@drexel.edu | ¡GANAS!: a Transformative Masculinities Intervention to Increase Social
Connectedness and Reduce Stress in Latino Men | Both | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | Low-income Latino men are disproportionately burdened by chronic disease morbidity and mortality, which often are compounded by disparate exposure to stress. In our previous NIMHD-funded research with low-income African American and Latino men in the U.S. Northeast, stress is the linchpin linking structural forces (racism, unemployment, housing insecurity), maladaptive behavioral responses (poor nutrition, alcohol and drug abuse, violence), and chronic disease. The socialization of boys and men in patriarchal societies favors stoicism, hyper independence, emotional detachment, which inevitably inhibits development of social and personal resources for coping with acute and chronic stressors such as nurturing intimate relationships, fostering broad social networks, and developing positive self-care habits. Importantly, social connectedness profoundly impacts quality of life and health. It's linked to better psychological well-being, lower blood pressure, improved immunity, reduced cancer recurrence risk, and lower mortality. Programs targeting health-detrimental gender norms that govern social connectedness have great potential to reduce chronic disease risk by addressing stress in Latino men, yet none have been tested with Latino men. The objective of this proposal is to test an intervention that helps participants challenge and address harmful gender norms—to improve social connectedness and reduce stress. Delivered on the Facebook platform, GANAS (related to the Spanish idiom, “¡échale ganas!” meaning “give it all you’ve got”) is a 10-week intervention designed to enhance stress coping resources at multiple levels, including increasing social connectedness and person-level stress processing capacity. GANAS uses a Transformative Masculinities approach designed to help participants understand and disentangle the negative health and social impacts of harmful gender norms, resulting in increased stress-buffering social capital and personal stress coping capacity. GANAS does this by bringing together groups of men for weekly workshops and discussions of relevant topics. The proposed research will establish efficacy of a novel transformative masculinities approach (web-delivered via social media: Facebook Groups) to increase social connectedness and decrease chronic stress in Latino men. We will randomize 250 Latino men between 25-64 years into a two-group waitlist control trial. The primary endpoint is fingernail stress cortisol and self-reported stress post intervention compared to baseline. Changes in social connectedness will be assessed with an egocentric and sociocentric social network analysis. We will conduct follow-up measure collection with all participants at 9 months after intervention completion. There is a paucity of research on Latino men’s health and researchers have called for gender and culturally sensitized interventions for Latino men. This work will help establish a novel model for tackling stress in Latino men living in the US by addressing gender-based norms that hinder effective coping in this group. Findings from this work will be a valuable resource for the field of health disparities research. | Tasks will depend on student skillsets and where we are in the project timeline. These can be anything from assisting with recruitment to assisting with intervention delivery and evaluation. | | Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred but not required. |
| 9 | | esv35@drexel.edu | A mixed methods evaluation of the Philly Joy Bank | Neither | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | The Philly Joy Bank is a guaranteed income pilot program, led by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health (PDPH),designed to address financial instability for birthing parents to improve parental and infant health outcomes. The evaluation of the Philly Joy Bank, led by members of Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, is grounded in a reproductive justice (RJ) approach that values the understandings and experiences with sexuality and reproduction for diverse marginalized people. The evaluation objective is to understand whether and how receipt of guaranteed income during and after pregnancy impacts parental mental health and prematurity (as well as other intermediate outcomes) using a mixed-methods design. Specifically, the evaluation team proposes to use quantitative and participatory research methods during pregnancy and through 12 months postpartum to examine the feasibility and acceptability of the Philly Joy Bank; and to understand whether and how receipt of the Joy Bank improves parental and infant health and well-being. The evaluation is led by a multidisciplinary team at Drexel University with complementary expertise and significant history in participatory research methods, collaborative program design, implementation, and evaluation with community partners. The evaluation team would benefit from the addition of a doctoral or an MPH student who is committed to using participatory research methods to support the evaluation of an intervention designed to promote racial equity. | Assist with a participatory research study designed to understand and elevate the lived experience of Black Birthing People in Philadelphia who are recipients of the Philly Joy Bank, including, but not limited to: preparing and assisting participatory sessions, conducting qualitative data collection and analysis, developing manuscripts for publication and other modes of dissemination | https://philacityfund.org/programs/philly-joy-bank/ | cover letter and CV |
| 10 | | gs839@drexel.edu | The impact of eviction on environmental & neighborhood health exposures | Neither | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | Eviction displaces people from their homes. But researchers know quite little about what happens to them afterwards: whether they tend to move into neighborhoods with more pollution, lower grocery store or medical care access, or lower rates of vaccination. This project would use data from New York City to evaluate whether evictions reshape evicted tenants' environmental health risks. | Cleaning and analyzing data in Stata or R; helping to write up results in peer-reviewed academic journal articles. | | Familiar with quantitative analysis and coding in Stata or R |
| 11 | | as5494@drexel.edu | Bias in Policy analysis: policy misclassification bias | Both | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | There has been limited attention to how incorrect dates or coding of policy exposures may bias estimates of policy effects. In this project we will identify policy datasets from an existing literature review (see Ellicott et al https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34215873/), match those datasets with policy data collected using legal mapping, and then estimate effects using the more rigorously collected legal epi data vs the policy data in the existing studies. As a second part, we will simulate different types of misclassification bias and then estimate differences in effect estimates in the context of these bias types. Many of the policies in the existing systematic review are urban policies. | Identify matched legal epidemiology data, support simulation analysis | This project is related to my K01, and will support | Student interested in Policy, students who code in R |
| 12 | | lhs36@drexel.edu | Heat safety regulations and worker health | Both | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | To understand worker's experiences of heat illness, and to understand impacts of heat safety regulations on worker heat illness and injury | Planning and developing statistical analyses. Preference for students who have quantitative skills or who are interested in learning and applying such skills (e.g., using R software to conduct analyses, reading in and preparing data, running regression analyses, etc.). | | Preference for quantitatively oriented students |
| 13 | | kac522@drexel.edu | Social, neighborhood, and other factors affecting the health and growth of young children | Neither | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | Our work focuses on understanding the factors that affect the health and development of young children. Through ongoing surveying of caregivers and secondary analysis of health records from area children’s hospitals, we explore caregiver experiences with topics such as housing, childcare, utilities, food, participation in programs and services, discrimination, and adverse childhood experience. Our current NIH-funded project is looking at how the relationship of food insecurity and child weight trajectory is affected by neighborhood conditions. Another analysis in progress is exploring how caregiver experiences of discrimination have changed over time. Our goal is to provide evidence that supports policies which protect and improve the health and development of young children. To that end, we create materials that are directed at non-academic as well as academic audiences. | Students may assist with standard research tasks at all levels as suits their interests and the current needs of the project(s), including conducting literature reviews and analyses, assisting in the creation of dissemination materials, and interacting with team members in general. We are especially interested in students with Epi and/or Biostats skills for data manipulation projects that range from basic exploration and descriptives to more complex analyses. | https://childrenshealthwatch.org/ https://drexel.edu/uhc/research/projects/food%20security%20neighborhoods%20and%20young%20childrens%20growth/ | none |
| 14 | | jaw375@drexel.edu | Structural Racism, Neighborhood Disinvestment and Social Determinants of Health
in the Jackson Heart Study | Neither | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | The goal of this project is to characterize structural racism and neighborhood disinvestment in the Jackson Heart Study and to synthesize existing evidence on Social and Structural Determinants of Health in the Jackson Heart Study | assisting with manuscript development including conducting literature reviews and creating tables and figures; assisting with presentation preparation including developing abstracts and slides; and creating data visualizations for dissemination to community partners and JHS participants | | No Preference |
| 15 | | alexisroth@drexel.edu | TIARAS | Master's Only | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | TIARAS is a trauma-informed randomized controlled trial designed to reduce women's HIV acquisition risk. The interventions being tested include expressive writing to address trauma, and contingency management to encourage reductions in substance use and increase adherence to preventive antiretroviral medications (PrEP). The study began in 2022 and data collection will be ongoing through 2026. | We are looking for research assistants to help with data collection. Shifts will occur at Prevention Point, a syringe exchange, located in the Kensington neighborhood - the epicenter for the city's overdose crises. Research assistants help recruit participants, educate participants about PrEP, consent, collect data, attend team meetings, and help manage data. It's a great opportunity to participate in community-engaged research. | http://www.healphilly.com/projects.html | Send email with resume and statement of interest to asm368@drexel.edu |
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| 17 | | ko497@drexel.edu | Racial Stratification, Criminal Legal System Exposure & Intersectional SUD-related
Inequities among U.S. Latino/x/a's | Master's Only | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | 1. Secondary data analysis, including preparing restricted data use agreements | 1. Using code fragment, carry out applied statistical analysis; 2. Work with PI to complete 1 or 2 restricted data use agreements; 3. Contribute to manuscript(s) for peer-review | | Email PI |
| 18 | | dec48@drexel.edu | Training the Long-Term Care Workforce - Implementation and Evaluation of an Infection Control Educational Program for Front Line Staff in Pennsylvania | Master's Only | Master's Only | No | Yes | Yes | Develop and evaluate educational program for front line staff in long-term care | (1) Develop program plans and assessments in infection control and emergency preparedness; (2) develop competency assessments in program areas; (3) Develop evaluation plan for educational program (4) Assist with program evaluation | | Prefer to recruit student with interest in education and pedagogy, and in infectious disease control and/or geriatrics and long-term care |
| 19 | | lhs36@drexel.edu | Paid sick leave and occupational heat illness or injury in American workers
The housing environment and ambient temperature (HEAT) study | Both | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | Paid sick leave and worker heat vulnerability: Even when implemented and followed, occupational heat safety programs may fail to protect vulnerable workers from heat-related illnesses or injuries. Broad social policies, like paid sick leave, may be crucial for supporting worker resilience within the context of globally rising temperatures. In this innovative study, we will: (1) Develop and publish a conceptual framework for relationships and underlying pathways between paid sick leave and occupational heat vulnerability; (2) Estimate associations of state level paid sick leave mandates with rates of occupational heat injury or illness using rigorous quasi-experimental methods; and (3) Elucidate associations of state- and city-level paid sick leave mandates with worker engagement in heat-health protective behaviors and worker’s self-reported experiences of heat-related injury and illness. HEAT study: The objective of this work is to identify safe upper thresholds for indoor temperatures. | Assist with literature reviews, survey development, and survey implementation. The student may also assist with identifying and summarizing the details of paid sick leave policies. | | Not clear what this means |
| 20 | | jbp83@drexel.edu | Newborns & Neighbors: Community-Driven Participatory Perinatal Peer Support Pilot | Neither | Master's Only | Yes | Yes | Yes | The Newborns & Neighbors community-driven pilot is a participatory research partnership based in the multisector Philadelphia Maternal & Infant Health Community Action Network (CAN) coalition, affiliated grassroots efforts, and Dornsife School of Public Health. There is a strong grassroots foundation of women of color supporting and lifting up new mothers as a commitment to the community – and often on their own time. This crucial support is undervalued by (healthcare) systems and manifestations of structural racism (e.g., racial economic inequities) make providing this support increasingly difficult. Our partnership seeks to implement and assess the feasibility and acceptability of a pilot providing perinatal peer support (ie. peers with shared lived experiences) to Black and/or Latinx pregnant and birthing people in Philadelphia. Our pilot addresses a key factor in the well-being of birthing persons and their families - emotional and practical support. Such support is associated with lower likelihood of postpartum depression and increased likelihood of treatment, and these effects appear even stronger for mothers living in poverty and mothers of color. Lessons from our peer support pilot will inform the larger-scale implementation to train more perinatal peer support specialists (PPSS), reach more mothers/birthing people by supporting formerly trained and new PPSS, and test the program’s effectiveness. We also seek to understand how the PPSS role can inform support of and pathways to other birth worker roles, such as a doula, community health worker, and/or certified lactation consultant, as part of a broader focus on the power of community-driven programs to advance health equity. We also visualize that the pilot can provide a potential pathway to birth work for interested mother participants who receive peer support. The pilot’s central tenet of community engagement/ organizing situates it within critical efforts to eliminate racial/ethnic inequities in maternal and infant health and address the role of structural and institutional (e.g., healthcare) racism in these inequities. The CAN is a multisector coalition of members from 30+ community organizations working on multilevel solutions to eliminate the persistent, unacceptable inequities in maternal and infant mortality and to increase the wellness of moms/birthing people and babies. Lived experience experts are actively engaged in the CAN and on the pilot team in seeking community solutions and centering community voices. | We anticipate incorporating a student as part of the pilot team to participate in and contribute to the following activities: —Attend weekly pilot team and monthly CAN Holistic Mental Health Care Workgroup meetings —Assist with IRB revision, recruitment, logistics - Research best practices for hybrid (in-home, virtual) peer support —Data management (collection, entry, management) —Participate in participatory group data analysis with pilot team —Assist with qualitative and mixed methods data analysis —Assist with implementation of curriculum content and assembly of digital and printed curriculum/training materials (virtual or hybrid trainings) —Assist with creating and sustaining internal pilot infrastructure —Assist with program management during the implementation phase of the pilot —Literature review on perinatal mental health and peer support (to inform future grant proposals) —Research potential sources of funding | https://www.phillycan.com/initiatives | Recruitment Preferences: —Prior experience with community engagement, community-based programs (preferred, not required) —Ability to work in equitable partnership with and become integral part of pilot team that includes community partners and lived experience experts as part of our community-academic partnership. NOTE: As a community-driven, participatory research partnership with the Philadelphia Maternal & Infant Community Action Network, we use consensus decision-making in order to make joint decisions with full participation of our pilot team of community and academic partners. That being said, it is essential to us that our team be directly involved in ranking/approving a potential student match, as this student would become a part of our pilot team, working directly with both faculty and community partners/lived experience experts on our team. |
| 21 | | mmc33@drexel.edu | Financial Empowerment Evaluation
The Center seeks a Research and Evaluation Coordinator to support ongoing evaluation the Center’s Building Wealth and Health Network (The Network) and other programming for 15-20 hours per week. The Network provides 1) healing centered peer support and financial empowerment to support emotional wellbeing and economic security among families in the Philadelphia region and 2) provides training and education for social services providers and financial educators nation-wide. | Both | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | The Goal of the project is to develop reports and peer reviewed articles regarding financial empowerment education | Duties/Responsibilities: The coordinator reports to the Director of Research and Evaluation to support The Network’s education and training programs in the following ways: • Assists with data collection and management techniques using Qualtrics, talent LMS, and Apricot • Assists with management, organization, and cleaning of existing and new data • Conducts ongoing summary of content and nature of data using SAS or R. • Carries out basic analyses using parametric and nonparametric methods • Prepares analyses and literature reviews for research publications and evaluation reports. • Attends evaluation meetings and provides updates on progress of analysis/reports. • Facilitates focus groups, carries out theme analyses and provides basic qualitative analyses. • Assists with other projects in the center, as needed | https://drexel.edu/hunger-free-center/projects/building-wealth-and-health-network/ | The Center seeks a dynamic individual who has a strong interest in evaluation of programs that promote justice and healing • Advanced degree in program evaluation and or biostatistics/Epidemiology. • Mastery of SAS or R programming • Familiarity with basic qualitative methods (focus groups and theme analysis) • Mastery with analysis of descriptive data and regression analysis • Knowledge of longitudinal data analysis preferred. • Excellent writing and communication skills • Strong interest in maternal/child health, health inequities, social policy. • Understanding of the issues of hunger, poverty, maternal and child health, housing and/or workforce development, preferred. • Good sense of humor, flexibility, and excellent oral and written communication skills • Responsible and independent worker • Must have completed IRB mandated research training (CITI and HIPAA). |
| 22 | | ieh27@drexel.edu | Supporting Equitable Black Maternal Health Ecosystems | Neither | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | The Headen Research Group (HRG) leverages multi-method approaches to understand the spatial embedding of structural inequity in neighborhood context and further investigate its impacts on racial inequities in maternal and infant health outcomes. Working at the intersections of epidemiology, systems science, and community engaged research, we aim to develop actionable evidence to improve Black maternal health. As such, HRG is an interdisciplinary and inclusive space with the goal of unpacking the persistent threads of structural racism and its impact during the childbearing window so that Black birthing people and other structurally marginalized birthing populations can thrive. This position will assist with ongoing work in the Headen Research Group to understand barriers and facilitators to supporting Black Led Maternal Health Community Based Organizations (CBOs) in Philadelphia. The research assistant will support stakeholder engagement, relationship building, and capacity building among Black-led CBOs within Philadelphia to facilitate the continuation of a series of community engaged research projects. This position will merge community engagement and systems thinking as lens toward understanding the dynamics of success of these organizations. | Student Tasks include: - Supporting literature review and reference management for deliverables about sustainable investment in Black-Led Maternal Health CBOs -Support the development of stakeholder education content in use of systems science for health and health equity; -Assist with ongoing evaluation and needs assessment tasks for programing to support Black-led Maternal Health CBOs in Philly (in conjunction with partners at the city PDPH); -Support activities for community based system dynamics projects including meeting scheduling, note taking, outreach, and engagement; -Assist with preparing and editing various research documents including meeting materials and notes, research reports, manuscripts, presentations and proposals; -Assist with IRB management and submissions | | Student with previous project management experience, ability to work with external partners and develop relationships, strong writing and organizational skills, some experience with data/data analysis desired but not required |
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| 24 | | jal538@drexel.edu | Biomarkers & Cognition Systematic Review | Neither | Both | No | Yes | Yes | To systematically review existing evidence between stress, inflammation, and cellular aging biomarkers and cognitive health. It also aims to investigate what has been found among minoritized racial and ethnic groups and what structural and social factors have been considered in this area. | Student would be responsible to assisting in the screening of studies for inclusion in the systematic review. They would also assist with developing tables or summarizing studies, with the possibility of authorship. | | Student has a strong interest in racial health inequities and structural factors; student is familiar with cognition and/or biological pathways through which stress can impact health; student is familiar with conducting or the process of systematic reviews |
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| 26 | | apm78@drexel.edu | CRISOL Mente is an NIH-funded project aimed at implementing and evaluating a multi-level, community-engaged intervention to reduce disparities in access to mental health care services among Latino communities. | Both | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | This 5-year project seeks to develop and test a multi-level, community intervention to improve mental health outcomes and promote access to culturally appropriate mental health treatment among Latino communities in Philadelphia (Aim 1); increase Latinos’ demand for, and acceptability of mental health treatment, through improved awareness about community mental health resources and reduced mental health stigma (Aim 2); and strengthen the capacity of Latino-serving organizations to address Latinos’ mental health and other syndemic conditions that contribute to, or result from, untreated mental health conditions (Aim 3). CRISOL Mente will include components at various levels of the socio-ecological model. To improve mental health symptoms and engagement in care, we will recruit, train, and supervise a cohort of Latino lay health workers (LHW) who will be embedded into two Latino-serving clinics to extend the reach and effectiveness of their mental health services. We will compare the impact of three different levels of LHW involvement: community outreach/navigation (i.e. screening and referral of community members), auxiliary care (i.e. screening, referral, and assistance to overcome barriers), and stepped care (i.e. screening, referral, assistance, and supervised delivery of basic mental health treatment). The LHWs will also conduct outreach/education activities in the community (e.g. radio talks, virtual info sessions, tables in community venues) to reduce mental health stigma. Our heavily Latino and experienced community-academic research team will also engage in capacity building activities (i.e. monthly town halls, annual retreats, weekly newsletters, provision of trainings and technical support) with the Latino Health Collective, a coalition of Latino-serving organizations. Using mixed-methods and the RE-AIM framework, CRISOL Mente’s impact will be evaluated using clinical data, baseline and 6-month patient survey data (N=200 from each level of LHW involvement), and qualitative interviews with community members (N=10 subsample from each level) referred to mental health services by the LHWs (Aim 1); pre/post mental health stigma data from two respondent driven sampling surveys (RDS) of Latinos (N=400 each) conducted in 2022 (preliminary study) and in 2027 (Aim 2); community capacity indicators from three surveys of Latino-serving organizations conducted in 2019, 2021 (preliminary studies) and 2027, and key informant interviews with Latino-serving providers (N=30) in 2019 (preliminary study) and 2027 (Aim 3). | Assist with data collection, data analysis, intervention design and implementation, some administrative support. | www.crisolcontigo.com | Ideally, someone who has experience working with Latino communities. Spanish language proficiency would be a plus, but it is not required. |
| 27 | | ws452@drexel.edu | Community Mobility and Participation of Autistic Adults Study (COMPAAS) | Neither | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | The goal is to expand knowledge about autistic adults’ community mobility and participation and identify individual health conditions, ASD traits, independence of daily living activities, other personal factors, and environmental factors (i.e., natural, built, service, and social) that contribute to observed variation in mobility and participation to inform and enhance the development and effectiveness of interventions. | Students can be involved in analysis of survey data, GPS-based data, and intensive longitudinal data (ecological momentary assessment) and manuscript development. They will receive mentorship in both aspects from the faculty lead and the research team. Students will also engage in dissemination activities targeting non-academic audience, including but not limited to community partners who have assisted with the study recruitment. | https://compaastudy.wixsite.com/compaas | I'm not sure what this question is asking for, but I would prefer to recruit students whose interests align with the project. |
| 28 | | jah474@drexel.edu | MESA Neighborhoods and Aging | Neither | Neither | Yes | Yes | Yes | The most recent MESA Neighborhoods grant focuses on social, natural, and built environment features related to aging-related outcomes, including Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias. This includes the addition of measures that capture neighborhood cognitive resources, factors impacting mobility, and healthcare access. It extends previous research to understand how social determinants shift neighborhoods to influence disparities in chronic disease as MESA participants age. | Our grant is winding down. A student would have to have a very specific, narrow topic of interest that could leverage the data | https://mesa-neighborhoods.org/ | None- I am adding for database, I do not have positions |
| 29 | | kac522@drexel.edu | Social, neighborhood, and other factors affecting the health and growth of young children | Neither | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | Our work focuses on understanding the factors that affect the health and development of young children. Through ongoing surveying of caregivers and secondary analysis of health records from area children’s hospitals, we explore caregiver experiences with topics such as housing, childcare, utilities, food, participation in programs and services, discrimination, and adverse childhood experience. Our current NIH-funded project is looking at how the relationship of food insecurity and child weight trajectory is affected by neighborhood conditions. Another analysis in progress is exploring how caregiver experiences of discrimination have changed over time. Our goal is to provide evidence that supports policies which protect and improve the health and development of young children. To that end, we create materials that are directed at non-academic as well as academic audiences. | Students may assist with standard research tasks at all levels as suits their interests and the current needs of the project(s), including conducting literature reviews and analyses, assisting in the creation of dissemination materials, and interacting with team members in general. We are especially interested in students with Epi and/or Biostats skills for data manipulation projects that range from basic exploration and descriptives to more complex analyses. | https://childrenshealthwatch.org/ https://drexel.edu/uhc/research/projects/food%20security%20neighborhoods%20and%20young%20childrens%20growth/ | none |
| 30 | | amr395@drexel.edu | The Health Equity Advancement Lab (HEAL) is seeking a student to assist with data collection for a large HIV prevention study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. TIARAS, short for ‘Efficacy of a trauma-informed intervention for affect regulation, adherence and substance use,” | Master's Only | Master's Only | Yes | Yes | Yes | People and projects affiliated with HEAL use community-engaged research to support the creation, evaluation, and dissemination of evidence-based interventions improve the health of people who use drugs. TIARAS is a randomized control trial with the goal of reducing HIV acquisition risk by addressing trauma, a well-known trigger for drug use and HIV risk. The trial is being conducted in partnership with Prevention Point Philadelphia, the largest syringe access program in the mid-Atlantic, located in the Kensington section of the city. Students recruited for the position may also be assigned to other HEAL lab projects over time, depending on lab needs, the student’s skillset, and goals for developing public health competencies. | The Research Assistant will be responsible for providing a wide range of activities, including in-person recruitment and data collection, transcription of qualitative interviews, coding of qualitative interviews, attending meetings and taking minutes, and working on reports for community partners. | http://www.healphilly.com/ | Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook, Word, and Excel, Attention to detail and accuracy, Excellent oral and written communication skills, Ability to independently prioritize task completion and to adapt to changes in priorities or turn around as needed, Commitment to follow all requirements with respect to the handling of confidential study participant information, Knowledge about women’s health, Experience working on issues relating to women’s health preferred, Commitment to the principals of harm reduction and trauma-informed care, Inclusive of persons of varying educational, socioeconomic, and cultural backgrounds |
| 31 | | | Jane E. Clougherty, MSc ScD |
| jec373@drexel.edu | Assessing Child Health Impacts of Exposure to Violence and Environmental Exposures in a Changing Climate (ACHIEVE) | Master's Only | Master's Only | Yes | Yes | Yes | This projects aims to measure violence as a chronic stressor in urban communities, by studying relationships between NYPD violent crime events and child mental health emergency department visits. We will then use violence metrics to test whether violence-related stress exacerbates impacts of pollution or heat on child health under climate change scenarios. | Examine NYPC crime and child mental health, using GIS and case-crossover analyses (in SAS or R). | N/A | N/A |
| 32 | | | Jane E. Clougherty, MSc ScD |
| jec373@drexel.edu | Synergistic Effects of Stress and Traffic-Related Air Pollution on Cardiovascular Health | Master's Only | Master's Only | Yes | Yes | Yes | This projects is a toxicologic (animal) study aiming to elucidate mechanisms for the combined effects of chronic stress and traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) on cardiopulmonary (autonomic) function, in collaboration with colleagues at University of California at Davis. | Examine data testing multiple forms of interaction between stress and pollution, on inflammatory measures and markers of autonomic function (in SAS or R). | N/A | N/A |
| 33 | | jlk465@drexel.edu | Climate change and health in cities across the Americas | Neither | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | To understand how climate change is and will impact health and health disparities in urban settings in Latin America and the US, and how the environment can be leveraged to protect the public from the health impacts of climate change. | Data analysis, publications, policy reviews, literature reviews. Broad flexibility about exposures, health outcomes, and populations of interest depending on student interest. | | Spanish or Portuguese language skills not required but very helpful. |
| 34 | | ieh27@drexel.edu | Capacity Building with Black-led Maternal Health Community Based Organizations in Philadelphia | Neither | Both | Yes | Yes | Yes | This student research assistant position will assist with ongoing work across three Headen Research Group (HRG) projects. The first is to support evaluation development for local community based organization chosen.kin. This organization is a space for Black queer & trans birthing people and parents to build deep, intentional connection through skill building, storytelling, art making, and building intergenerational community. We are currently developing a revised evaluation process that will more directly reflect process and outcome measures that align with their strategic approach. This position would be supporting ongoing evaluation planning, data collection tool development, administration, and analysis along with development of organization facing deliverables. The second project focuses on using systems science tools to better understand structural racism experienced in neighborhood environments by Black birthing people. Through in depth interviews and one collaborative systems building workshop with key stakeholders involved in neighborhood resources and community care, we aim to better understand the vicious cycles of place-based racism contributing to maternal morbidity among Black birthing people. The third project will support evaluation implementation for a Technical Assistance Mini-Grant Program administered through the Organized Voices for Action (OVA) Community Investment (CI) Implementation Team. This program is in its second year of implementation and seeks to fill a gap in need by providing flexible technical assistance funds to Black-led Community Based Organizations (CBOs) to grow their capacity to address maternal health needs while ensuring their organizations are sustainable. The TA Mini-Grants program is supported by city Maternal Child and Family Health Division. HRG is responsible for guiding evaluative activities of this program. | The student will support stakeholder engagement, relationship building and capacity needs, qualitative data collection and analysis, report and manuscript development, and deliverable development across these three projects. Tasks for this position include: -Assist with ongoing evaluation plan development and general capacity building tasks for chosen.kin -Assist with analysis of qualitative data from systems interviews of maternal health stakeholders about neighborhood environment and severe maternal morbidity -Assist with data collection for evaluation activities relating to the Technical Assistance Mini-Grant Program. This includes administrative tasks, participant outreach, materials development, focus group facilitation support (e.g. note taking), focus group transcription, support of qualitative and quantitative analysis of evaluation data. - Supporting literature review and reference management for deliverables -Support the development of stakeholder education content in use of systems science for health and health equity -Assist with preparing and editing various research documents including meeting materials and notes, research reports, manuscripts, presentations and proposals -Assist with IRB management and submissions | | Any, I am flexible but would love to have a fellowship funded student. |
| 35 | | akg68@drexel.edu | Evaluation of the Philly Joy Bank | Master's Only | Master's Only | Yes | Yes | Yes | The Philly Joy Bank (PJB) is a guaranteed income pilot program, led by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health (PDPH) and designed to address financial instability for birthing parents to improve parental and infant health. The PJB will be rolled out in Philadelphia neighborhoods with the greatest inequalities in birth outcomes. The evaluation of the PJB is grounded in a reproductive justice approach that values the understandings and experiences with sexuality and reproduction for diverse marginalized people. The evaluation objective is to understand whether and how receipt of guaranteed income during and after pregnancy impacts parental mental health and prematurity using a mixed-methods design. Specifically, we will use quantitative and participatory research methods during pregnancy and through 12 months postpartum to examine the feasibility and acceptability of the Philly Joy Bank; and to understand whether and how receipt of the Joy Bank improves parental and infant health and well-being. Findings will provide evidence to inform policy changes regarding the value of guaranteed income and will lay the groundwork for additional research funding to further optimize the impacts of the PJB on parental and infant health in Philadelphia during a critical life stage: when safeguarding maternal health is vital to the health and wellbeing of parents and their children. | the MPH student will assist with a variety of activities related to data analyses and dissemination of findings. | https://www.phillyjoybank.org/our-impact | I apologize but I am not sure what is meant by this field |
| 36 | | lhs36@drexel.edu | A Survey of Residential Indoor Heat Exposures and Kidney Health in Philadelphia | Master's Only | Master's Only | Yes | Yes | Yes | City dwellers with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are a heat sensitive subpopulation. Within this sub-population, heat vulnerability may vary because of differences in indoor exposure or heterogeneity in heat adaptive behaviors—potentially explained by structural factors, such poor housing infrastructure, energy insecurity, or inadequate knowledge. Clarifying the reasons for heterogeneity in heat vulnerability among urban residents with CKD is critical for informing interventions and policies. To fill this gap, we will survey 250 Philadelphia residents with CKD about perceptions of heat, experiences of heat stress and illness, adaptive behaviors, and structural barriers to adaptive behaviors. | Students might help with data collection (i.e., survey administration); data analysis, literature reviews, and/or manuscript development. | | Interest in climate and health links, survey design, and quantitative analysis. Experience using RedCap is a plus. |
| 37 | | | Jackie Jahn (with support from Ali Groves and Alina Schnake-Mahl |
| jj3222@drexel.edu | Resisting restrictive state policy regimes: understanding barriers and informing strategies to strengthen the contraceptive safety net | Neither | Both | No | Yes | Yes | This project aims to: 1) identify state policy regimes (2015-2025) that structurally constrain or enhance contraceptive care among Medicaid recipients; 2) identify counties that have maintained relatively high rates of contraceptive care among Medicaid recipients despite operating within restrictive state policy regimes, and 3) use qualitative interviews with family planning leaders in high-performing counties to develop a set of best practices to enhance contraceptive access and provision in restrictive contraceptive policy regimes. | Identify state policies related to contraceptive access, and format them into a comprehensive longitudinal dataset. If the student is quantitatively oriented, then conduct clustering analysis on state policies and, in the 2nd year of the fellowship, examine the association between clusters of policy types and measures of contraceptive access. If the student if more qualitative, develop interview guides for interviews with clinical leaders providing contraceptive care, and support interviews and interview coding. | | Student with interest in reproductive and contraceptive care as well as policies. |