We know that much of what influences our health happens outside of the doctor’s office—in our schools, workplaces and neighborhoods. The County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program helps communities create solutions that make it easier for people to be healthy in their own communities, focusing on specific factors that we known affect health, such as education and income.
What separates an ineffective law from one that has an enduring impact on public health? We believe it's rigorous scientific research. PHLR is a national initiative housed at the Temple University Beasley School of Law to promote effective regulatory, legal and policy solutions to improve public health.
Like any organization, public health departments need a strong infrastructure and efficient service delivery to be successful. We're helping them by researching best practices that will lead to smarter resource and policy decisions. This program seeks to explore the impact of specific public health strategies on the quality and performance of the United States public health system.
Public health has experienced major economic, environmental, and technology upheavals in recent years. A new round of research will examine how recent dramatic changes in the operation of the nation’s public health system impact its effectiveness in such critical roles as emergency preparedness and reporting of disease outbreaks.
Seven new research awards are part of an initiative on “natural experiments” in public health delivery developed by the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Services and Systems Research (PHSSR), a RWJF-funded center housed at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health.
What Works for Health, the latest release from the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps is an online, searchable menu of policies and programs—each with a rating based on strength of evidence for factors that can help make communities healthier places to live, learn, work and play.
The public health effects of laws on issues such as food safety, bullying, distracted driving and alcohol control laws will be investigated through 12 new research projects funded in the fourth call for proposals by the RWJF Public Health Law Research program.
The grants total nearly $2.5 million and will support short-term and time-sensitive studies on specific laws or regulations, long-term evaluations of laws and regulations, and the development of legal datasets.
A new report released by the Institute of Medicine Committee on Public Health Strategies to Improve Health calls for significant reforms to refocus America’s public health system toward prevention of the chronic diseases that are taking a toll on the nation’s health and economy.
