News & Events

In spring 2020, PHC awarded funding to support partnership and research projects focused on the following: Status of Black Girls in Delaware Funding will help support a multi-method study examining identity development, health awareness, healthy behaviors, barriers to...

In collaboration with the Lieutenant Governor’s office, and Saint Francis representatives, PHC secured funding from Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Delaware to support a partnership with Saint Francis Healthcare mobile health van. The van enables faculty, staff and...

The UD Partnership for Healthy Communities helped usher in National Public Health Week 2020 with the following webinar: Beyond Infectious Disease:  Unleashing the Power of Public Health to Achieve Health Equity, A Webinar to Explore Cross-Sector Career and Research...

The UD Partnership for Healthy Communities, in collaboration with the Delaware Academy of Medicine/Delaware Public Health Association, prepared the 2019 Delaware State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) Annual Report, launched a revised  Delaware SHIP website, and hosted...

On August 22, 2019, the UD Partnership for Healthy Communities was pleased to host a Town Hall at the Tower at STAR to address Delaware's opioid crisis.  The discussion was led by U.S. Senator Chris Coons with Director James Carroll of the U.S. Office of National Drug...

Wednesday, September 25, 2019 10:00 am - 1:00 pm The Tower at STAR, 100 Discovery Blvd., Newark, DE  19713 This workshop is hosted by UD Partnership for Healthy Communities and presented by Recovery Centers of America Cultivating compassion, connection and kinship...

Join us for our Peace Week Delaware event: Trauma-Informed Community Engagement and Resilience Presented by UD's Partnership for Healthy Communities and Trauma Matters Delaware Thursday, September 26, 2019,  3:00 - 6:00 PM STAR Health Sciences Complex, North Atrium...

Public Health degrees help further Partnership for Healthy Communities’ goals UD is now offering a Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology and Doctorate of Philosophy in Epidemiology through the new Epidemiology program in the College of Health Sciences.  A Masters...

For National Public Health Week 2019, we've compiled a Delaware calendar of events from April 1 - 14, 2019 that spans 18 cutting-edge public health topics.  We also developed a companion guide that describes the topics more in-depth. This calendar was compiled by for...

Thanks to generous contributions from our donors Bob and Debbie Norris and the McCarter Family, the UD Partnership for Healthy Communities is currently offering the following undergraduate and graduate paid summer fellowship opportunities in collaboration with our...