When Reenie Heary was on her way to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in 2016, she had to take several detours due to a 5K for a local school taking place in the streets of her neighborhood.
Heary, who...
Patients enter their local pharmacies every day to pick up their prescription, ask a few questions and leave. But these short interactions often do not touch on the additional challenges patients carry...
When Allison Dukes, Ph.D., was growing up in the late ’90s and early 2000s, police officers showed up in fifth and sixth grade classrooms with a straightforward message for students: Don’t use drugs.
“I...
Fredy Abboud ’25 still remembers the man in need of wound care he saw while walking along Allegheny Avenue in northeast Philadelphia two years ago.
Abboud, then a fellow for St. Joe’s Institute...
Following decades of substance use and periods of homelessness, Mark Knox tested positive for HIV during a period of incarceration. When he returned home several years later, he tested positive again.
“I...
Some of the participants at the trivia event looked unsure, while others sat up straight, confident they knew the answers. As the questions kept coming on a cold January evening, the only thing everyone...
When Megan Armbruster ’24, M.S. ’26, entered her senior year of high school, she began noticing changes in her mother’s behavior.
“She was nodding off at the table, had suspicious friends...
The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting brought together journalists, gun violence survivors, public health professionals and advocates for a conference Oct. 2-3 in Center City, Philadelphia,...
