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The Need for Healthier Beverage Recommendations
Mary Story, director of Healthy Eating Research, and Tracy Fox, president of Food, Nutrition and Policy Consultants, discuss why we need healthier beverage standards.
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Meet Six Prize-Winning Communities
The RWJF Roadmaps to Health Prize honors outstanding community partnerships that are helping people live healthier lives. These communities are creating a culture of health in their backyards. They were selected in 2013 from more than 160 applicants for their innovative strategies.
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A Look Back: The Campaign for Action Summit on the Future of Nursing 2013
From February 28 through March 1, 2013, Action Coalitions from throughout the nation gathered in Washington for the summit. More than 200 leaders from nursing, medicine, business, health systems, philanthropy, and academia joined to share innovative ideas for transforming health care and improving health.
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Unsung Heroes of the Storm
When Hurricane Sandy barreled ashore, bringing with it high winds and heavy seas, public health professionals stared disaster in the face. Though the job of recovery seemed daunting, they proved equal to the task at hand.
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Inside the Buckingham Schools Renovation Project
In 2006, Terry Huang, a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, proposed a new approach to combating childhood obesity: architecture. VMDO Architects, in collaboration with the University of Virginia and University of Nebraska, redesigned a 1950s-era elementary school in rural Virginia to encourage healthy eating and physical activity among all students.
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Care About Your Care 2013
A national conversation about what hospitals, primary care practices, post-acute care facilities, and patients are doing to improve care transitions and reduce hospital readmissions.
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Full Partners: Collaboration Across Professions Improves Patient Outcomes
November 1, 2011 | Video/Story
It's more than two or more health professionals working side by side; it's about respect and understanding.
Investing In Reclaiming Futures
January 20, 2011 | Audio
Investing in Reclaiming Futures: A Promising Model for Cost-Effective Juvenile Justice Reform
Alliance for a Healthier Generation Names Healthiest School in America
June 15, 2010 | News Release/Video
West New York, New Jersey's Memorial High School earns first-ever Gold National Recognition Award from Alliance's Healthy Schools Program.
Policy-Makers Talk About Childhood Obesity and How Their Communities are Tackling the Epidemic
November 2, 2009 | Video/Story
They spoke at a summit organized by Leadership for Healthy Communities.
Getting it Right
August 10, 2009 | Audio
RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey delivered the keynote address at the Strand Union Building at Montana State University on August 10, 2009.
Healthy Schools Celebrated
August 6, 2009 | News Release/Video
Alliance for a Healthier Generation honors 114 schools for creating healthier environments for students and staff.
On Track to Prevent Childhood Obesity
July 31, 2009 | Video
A Detroit elementary school transforms itself inside and laces up outside.
Speaking with One Voice, Taking on Childhood Obesity
March 31, 2009 | Video
Seven men and women who have served as the nation's surgeon general come together to call for action.
Team Director Dwayne Proctor Talks About the Childhood Obesity Strategy
February 8, 2009 | Issue Brief/Video
Learn more in this informational video.
PIER Program Supports Young Adults with Mental Health Problems
January 7, 2009 | Video/Story
How the Portland Identification and Early Referral program intervenes to prevent severe mental illness in teens and young adults.