Fostering Transformative and Sustainable Support for Early Career Health Disparities Researchers to Advance Health Equity
Drexel FIRST is a partnership between Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health and the College of Nursing and Health Professions.
These awards provide funds to recruit diverse cohorts of early stage research faculty on detecting, understanding or reducing health disparities within three thematic areas: Aging, Chronic Disease, and Environmental Determinants.
Drexel FIRST also aspires to catalyze institutional change to create and sustain a culture of inclusive excellence necessary for rigorous and impactful science.
Catalyzing Systemic Change at Drexel University to Support Diverse Faculty in Health Disparities Research
Meet the Drexel FIRST cohort – a collective of innovative researchers addressing health disparities in disciplines from population health to intervention science.
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As one of seven universities in the inaugural cohort of the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) FIRST initiative, Drexel is part of a national effort to increase diversity in biomedical and behavioral science research and create the institutional changes necessary to promote and sustain diversity and inclusion in health research.
Drexel FIRST involves leaders, faculty, and professional staff throughout the University engaged in supporting the advancement of our cohort of 12 early-stage researchers and transforming Drexel University to create and sustain a culture of research excellence that is diverse and inclusive.
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October 1st, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Exposure to Nicotine Pouch Marketing and Nicotine Pouch Experimentation Among U.S Adults Who Use Commercial Tobacco – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Lilianna Phan
August 1st, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Grandparents’ Educational Attainment is Associated with Grandchildren’s Epigenetic-Based Age Acceleration in the National Growth and Health Study – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Agus Surachman
July 15th, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Evaluation an acceptance-based lifestyle modification program to address cardiovascular disease risk among adolescent girls with overweight and obesity: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Kristal Brown
July 14th, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Grandparents’ Educational Attainment is Associated with Grandchildren’s Epigenetic-Based Age Acceleration in the National Growth and Health Study – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Agus Surachman
July 3rd, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Social Disparities in Flood Exposure and Associations with the Urban Environment in 44,698 Neighborhoods in 276 Cities in Eight Latin American Countries – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Josiah Kephart
July 1st, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Life Space and Activity Space Measurement: Making “Room” for Structural Racism – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Safiyyah Okoye
June 7th, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
School Segregation and Health Across Racial Groups: A Life Course Study – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Gabriel Schwartz
June 1st, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Financial Hardship and Age-Related Decrements in Kidney Function Among Black and White Adults in the Midlife in the United States Study – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Agus Surachman
May 20th, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Individual and regional differences in the effects of school racial segregation on Black students’ health – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Gabriel Schwartz
May 18th, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Implementing an evidence-based behavioral weight-loss program in community mental health centers: A randomized pilot study – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Kristal Brown
May 16th, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Where I’m Livin’ and How I’m Feelin’: Associations among community stress, gender, and mental-emotional health among Black Americans – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Agus Surachman
May 13th, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Differences in weight-loss outcomes among race-gender subgroups by behavioral intervention delivery mode: An analysis of the POWER trial – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Kristal Brown
April 15th, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
“Hang Ups, Let Downs, Bad Breaks, Setbacks”: Impact of Structural Socioeconomic Racism and Resilience on Cognitive Change Over Time for Persons Racialized as Black – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Safiyyah Okoye
April 8th, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Tackling heat-related mortality in aging populations – A publication by FIRST Faculty members Drs. Safiyyah Okoye & Josiah Kephart
April 5th, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Association between maladaptive eating behaviors among black women and vicarious racial discrimination following a high-profile event – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Kristal Brown
April 4th, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Who are the “police” in “police violence”? Fatal violence by U.S law enforcement agencies across levels of government – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Gabriel Schwartz
March 4th, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Adolescent mental distress in the wake of climate disasters – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Josiah Kephart
March 4th, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Short-term associations between fine particulate air pollution and cardiovascular and respiratory mortality in 337 cities in Latin America – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Josiah Kephart
February 19th, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Study design and rationale for TEEN+REACH: Evaluating ripple effects of family based lifestyle intervention to untreated family members – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Kristal Brown
January 18th, 2024 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Things That Could Have Helped Me Cope: Adults Reflect on What They Needed as Children After the Deportation of a Parent – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Bertranna Muruthi
December 8th, 2023 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Eviction as a community health exposure – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Gabriel Schwartz
December 6th, 2023 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Awareness of electronic cigarette industry practices and their associations with anti-electronic cigarette attitudes among susceptible US young adults – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Lilianna Phan
December 5th, 2023 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Ambient nitrogen dioxide in 47,187 neighborhoods across 326 cities in 8 Latin American countries: population exposures and associations with urban features – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Josiah Kephart
December 4th, 2023 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Sexual Orientation, gender expression and socioeconomic status in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Stephanie Hernandez
November 20th, 2023 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
Financial Hardship and Age-Related Decrements in Kidney Function among Black & White Adults in the Midlife in the united States (MIDUS) Study – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Agus Surachman
November 20th, 2023 | Drexel FIRST Faculty Publication
The association between material-psychological-behavioral framework of financial hardship and markers of inflammation: a cross-sectional study of the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) Refresher cohort – A publication by FIRST Faculty member Dr. Agus Surachman
September 26th, 2023 | Drexel College of Nursing & Health Professions
FIRST Faculty’s Path to Nursing – An article about FIRST Faculty Member Safiyyah Okoye, PhD
September 1st, 2023 | Drexel FIRST Program
June 1, 2023 | Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health
Gender Expression Differences in Allostatic Load Among Females in the United States – A Seminar by Stephanie Hernandez
June 1, 2023 | Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health
A New Vanguard: Intersectional Reflexivity and Shifting Praxis in “Men’s” Health Research – A Seminar by Luis Valdez
February 1, 2023 | Drexel Urban Health Collaborative
January 30, 2023 | Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health
January 12, 2023 | Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions
Drexel FIRST Seminar Series:
Stay tuned for more seminars to be scheduled.
