Biden School Faculty and Staff Serve As Guest Editors for Delaware Journal of Public Health

​Faculty and staff from the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration were guest editors for the latest issue of the Delaware Journal of Public Health, which focused on homelessness, poverty and public health. Stephen Metraux, associate professor and director of Center for Community Research and Service (CCRS) served as the lead editor on this issue. Roger Hesketh, CCRS assistant policy scientist, Sean O’Neill, Institute for Public Administration (IPA) policy scientist, and Mimi Rayl, housing initiatives coordinator, CCRS, all joined Metraux as guest editors. Studies presented within this issue bring forth compelling analyses of housing challenges that directly impact more vulnerable communities. It also discusses the importance of providing these communities with housing-specific responses that are intertwined with the services that many of these individuals studied receive from healthcare, social services, and criminal justice systems in Delaware. The issue provides readers with ample information and opportunity to continue doing the work needed to address on-going housing issues across the state. According to Metraux, this issue has the most comprehensive collection of Delaware-specific research pertaining to homelessness and housing ever. Additionally, this issue highlights the research that CCRS and IPA have produced on this topic within the state of Delaware, as the 7 of 21 articles feature Biden School authors. ​

Article by Sophonie Milord. Originally posted in UDaily's For the Record​.​​