March 14, 2013
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Researchers studied public health policies in New York City and elsewhere, including bans on transfats, limits on exhaust emissions, and taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages, to determine how best to move such policies through the political process.
March 14, 2013
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Program Result
Trust for America's Health (TFAH) worked with a coalition of public health, business, and other partners to build consensus for a modernized public health system and to inform the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
February 20, 2013
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Program Result
SAPRP funded projects that identified and assessed policies to reduce the harm caused by substance abuse. The program helped ensure that the insights gained through these analyses would be used by decision-makers in the public and private sectors.
January 9, 2013
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Program Result
From 2005 to 2010 the National Library of Medicine oversaw a Public Health Informatics Fellows Training Program at four of its 18 medical informatics training sites in order to catalyze the development of a public health informatics field.
December 18, 2012
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Researchers investigated existing state laws and policies that could help public health agencies win approval from the Public Health Accreditation Board.
November 26, 2012
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The Health Impact Project is advancing the use of health impact assessments (HIAs), used to determine the potential health effects of a proposed policy or project. Interest in HIAs is growing at the local, state, tribal and federal levels.
October 30, 2012
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Program Result
From 2006 to 2010, Common Ground, helped 31 state and local public health agencies improve their information systems and their system performance in order to meet the challenges of bio terrorism, potential pandemics, and chronic disease.
September 4, 2012
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Evaluators from the Leadership Learning Community conducted a social network analysis of the public health communications network in North Carolina that focused on the 2011 launch of the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps.
August 2, 2012
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Program Result
Tobacco Policy Change invested in tobacco policy advocacy in those states and communities with higher percentages of poor people, blue-collar workers, minorities, and others disproportionately impacted by tobacco use.
August 2, 2012
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Program Result
With funding from RWJF's Tobacco Policy Change and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Southwest Navajo Tobacco Education Prevention Project spearheaded an ambitious effort to curb the use of commercial tobacco among the 300,000-member Navajo Nation.
