The
Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health
Foundation awarded the School of Public Health a
five-year $750,000 grant to establish the
Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice.
Joseph Pyle, President of the
Scattergood Foundation, and Samuel Rhoads, Chairman of the
Scattergood Foundation Board of Directors, visited the
University to present the grant at a ceremony on November 28
in the Paul Peck Alumni Center.
(l-r:) Samuel Rhoads, Joseph Pyle, Prof. John Rich, MD, SPH
Dean Marla J. Gold, MD
Leading efforts for the new Center is
John A. Rich, MD, MPH,
chair of the Department of Health Management and Policy and
2006 MacArthur Foundation grant recipient. The Center’s core
staff includes Dr. Sandra Bloom, Adjunct Professor of Health
Management and Policy at the School of Public Health and Dr.
Theodore Corbin, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
at the Drexel University College of Medicine.
The new Center will focus on trauma as a public health
issue. In the first phase of the planning process the
Center’s core staff will build the infrastructure for the
training and technical assistance that the Center will
provide to emergency department clinicians and intervention
staff. The grant will be used to establish the Center’s
training, technical assistance and leadership development
components.
